Tonight's Team & Transfer Policy

I've just been reading today's Journal and it seems we have even more players missing. Colo didn't train yesterday and is a doubt, Ryan Taylor is unlikely to play, as apparently is Tiote. I doubt Enrique will start and Harper will play in goal. I'd like to see a far more attacking lineup than the Orlando game so I'd go with:

Harper
Gosling S.Taylor Tavernier Dummett
Jonas Abeid Vuckic Marveaux
Ba Best


Other news in the Journal was that we were looking at the likes of Crouch, Bridge, Warnock and Shorey. These players do not fit with the transfer policy that the club have said they will use all along. The club also said that they had enough targets to not panic buy, but from the article it sounds as though they are panicking due to us not scoring yet in the states.

With L'equipe reporting that Erdinc won't be coming to us, Im starting to worry about exactly who we will end up with upfront.

 

So, this is every player in the last 6 weeks we've been linked with in the press...

How accurate are they?

Day Player Pos Club Source Status

July 2011

DAILY Mevlut Erdinc FWD PSG various Unconfirmed
DAILY Charles N'Zogbia MID Wigan various Unconfirmed
DAILY Shane Long FWD Reading various Unconfirmed
3 Wayne Bridge DEF Manchester City People Unconfirmed
4 Sergio Canales MID Real Madrid Mail Unconfirmed
4 Lucho Gonzalez MID Marseille Express Unconfirmed
7 Lewis McGugan MID Nottingham Forest Mirror Unconfirmed
8 Ante Vukusic FWD Hajduk Split Star Unconfirmed
8 Marco Pappa MID CSD Municipal Goal Unconfirmed
11 Nicklas Bendtner FWD Arsenal Metro Unconfirmed
14 Karim Ziani MID Wolfsburg Talk Sport Unconfirmed
14 Nathan Clyne DEF Crystal Palace Mirror Unconfirmed

June 2011

DAILY Shane Long FWD Reading various Unconfirmed
DAILY Gervinho FWD Lille various Unconfirmed
DAILY Kevin Gameoiro FWD Lorient various Signed for PSG
DAILY Yohan Cabaye MID Lille Canal+ Signed!
DAILY Charles N'Zogbia MID Wigan various Unconfirmed
DAILY Demba Ba FWD Unattached various Signed!
1 Danny Graham FWD Spurs various Signed for Swansea
1 Robbie Keane FWD Spurs Vital Football Unconfirmed
1 Cedric Hengbart DEF Auxerre Sky Sports Unconfirmed
1 Younes Belhanda MID Montpellier France Football Unconfirmed
2 Wilson Palacios MID Spurs Italian media Unconfirmed
3 Emilio Izaguirre DEF Celtic various Unconfirmed
4 Raphael Varane DEF RC Lens Lens fansite Unconfirmed
4 Tranquillo Barnetta MID Bayer Leverkusen various Unconfirmed
5 Neil Taylor DEF Swansea City Sunday Mirror Swansea confirm offer
5 Ryad Boudebouz MID Sochaux Metro Unconfirmed
5 Craig Gardner MID Birmingham City various Unconfirmed
7 Romaric MID Seville Talk Sport Unconfirmed
7 Shikabala MID Zamalek Talksport Unconfirmed
8 Essam El Hadary GKR El-Merreikh Mail Unconfirmed
9 Derek Boateng MID Getafe Sun Unconfirmed
12 Scott Brown MID Celtic Sunday Sun Player dismissed interest
13 Blaise Matuidi MID St.Etienne various Unconfirmed
14 Mevlut Erding FWD PSG various Confirmed by Pardew
15 Jordon Mutch MID Birmingham City Independent Unconfirmed
16 Miralem Sulejmani FWD Ajax Chronicle Unconfirmed
16 Nigel Reo-Coker MID Unattached London Evening Standard Unconfirmed
16 Joe Whight DEF Ipswich Town Green 'Un Unconfirmed
18 Sylvain Marveaux MID Stade Rennes official NUFC site Signed!
19 Daniel Sturridge FWD Chelsea various Unconfirmed
19 Dimitar Berbatov FWD Manchester United various Unconfirmed
19 Vicente Rodriguez MID Valencia Spanish media Unconfirmed
19 Adel Taarabt MID QPR various comments made by player
20 John O'Shea DEF Manchester United Irish Independent Unconfirmed
24 Moussa Sissoko MID Toulouse French media Agent claims
24 Teteh Bangura FWD AIK Solna Mail Unconfirmed
24 Mohamed Bangura FWD AIK Solna Mail Unconfirmed
24 Pierre Webo MID Real Mallorca Spanish media Unconfirmed
25 Didier Drogba FWD Chelsea various Unconfirmed
26 Darron Gibson MID Manchester United Sunday Mirror Unconfirmed
29 Juan Manuel Martinez FWD Velez Sarsfield Star Unconfirmed
29 Barry Ferguson MID Birmingham City various Unconfirmed

 

I see your point. It was just the way it was worded in the article that made it seem that we were now aiming for so-called 'experienced' players.

 

I can just see Ba's knee exploding in the Columbus game and the shards blinding Abeid, Best, Jonas and Marveaux as well as several in the crowd...

 

^^^ puts it into perspective

 

This is the sort of negativity I like!

 

yes, put our proven left winger on the right, and our new signing who by all accounts has zero link up play with Enrique, but has played well on the right on the left

 

That does sound like something that would happen

 

also, that center of midfield is a bit too lightweight, Id put Gosling in the middle

 

Is this game on the same website as the other one? What times KO?

 

Who would play right back though? In my opinion we should have flown accross a centre back (Henderson maybe) instead of a left back.

And on Marveaux and Jonas: Jonas is right-footed and if Jose isn't playing then there is no real reason that he should play on the left ahead of on the right as he can play both. Reports before we signed Marveaux said that he was very one-footed and so he suited playing on the left. Either way, they are interchangable and could switch during the game.

 

Our transfer policy is to tight to succeed at the top half of the table and we will lose tonight.

 

when does jonas ever play on the right though? that should say something about how suited he is for the role. Apparently Marveaux is very one footed, yes, but that would make him perfect for cutting in and playing short passes/shooting, something which i think is very useful in a 4231 role, since a trequarista (i.e. Ben Arfa) would benefit from passes to feet rather than crosses and it gives us more goalscoring options (i hear Marveaux has a good shot on him).


(i dont know exactly who we sent over/who's injured so i dont know who to suggest for RB, but Abeid/Vuckic are both young, attacking midfielders and i fear they'd be overrun)