As i said on my other post, we had all that Ayew rumour with FOUR 1st team left wingers on the books (Aarons, Ameobi, Gouff and Cabella). Genuinely, we'll end up with about 2 players of little repute and MAYBE replace any departures. It's the fcking "purple player" rule, which takes precedence over any "let's win something" or "be ambitious" notion of player recruitment. I doubt an idiot like Charnley even considers them as left wingers. He probably counts them all in the category of "winger and as a result 2 per side is more than sufficient. If someone happens to lose sanity and bid for Sammy or Gouff, we might replace. But with Aarons fit, then elsewhere with SDJ fit, Steven Taylor fit, Haidara/Dummy fit, Cisse fit, Tiote fit we'll genuinely be back to where we were last season with Pardew claiming he had a squad good enough to challenge for Europe. Dummy just reminded us all this same group won 6 on the bounce and beat Chelsea, Man City, and were 5th in November.
I think we've all been suckered in by the media's spin on "6 players" and thanks to Carver we all feel 6 is a minimum! My personal opinion on the minimum is we need genuine quality on the right side, up front and at CB. I don't think we can afford to get so depressed if we only bring in 3, as long as the quality is right up there. We also cannot expect upgrades on Tiote, Colo, Cabella, etc. I think we'll end up with one net new. Sissoko and Cisse will be gone and replaced, plus we'll bring in a CB.
