Players available on a free transfer this summer. >> Andrey Arshavin (Arsenal) Lukasz Fabianski (Arsenal) Sébastien Squillaci (Arsenal) Richard Dunne (Aston Villa) Eric Lichaj (Aston Villa) Yossi Benayoun (Chelsea) Paulo Ferreira (Chelsea) Frank Lampard (Chelsea) Florent Malouda (Chelsea) Ján Mucha (Everton) Phil Neville (Everton) Chris Baird (Fulham) Mahamadou Diarra (Fulham) Brede Hangeland (Fulham) Mladen Petric (Fulham) Kolo Toure (Manchester City) Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United) Danny Simpson (Newcastle United) Simeon Jackson (Norwich City) Simon Church (Reading) Artur Boruc (Southampton) Richard Chaplow (Southampton) Frazer Richardson (Southampton) Michael Owen (Stoke City) Ryan Shotton (Stoke City) Dean Whitehead (Stoke City) William Gallas (Tottenham Hotspur) Chris Brunt (West Bromwich Albion) Marc-Antoine Fortuné (West Bromwich Albion) Steven Reid (West Bromwich Albion) Carlton Cole (West Ham United) Gary OâNeil (West Ham United) AntolÃn Alcaraz (Wigan Atheltic) Maynor Figueroa (Wigan Atheltic) Get working on this right now Mr O'Neill !
And how many of those that would realistically come here, would pull us away from relegation scraps? You'd be lucky to count on one hand.
Once you remove the unrealistic ones though (Ferdinand, Lampard, Arshavin, Malouda, Toure, Gallas) how many would you actually want? Figueroa, Hangeland, Brunt, Baird, Shotton are probably the only solid PL pros who are either not too aged, too injury prone or simply gash. Of those only really Hangeland would get the blood going as a starter.
40k a year!, i think the Man c groundsman gets more!. free transfers but the problem is the £120,000 a week wages for some.
For one reason or another, I don't think there is a single player I would take. Unless it came to dealine for anouncing your squad or, whatever the rules are.
I'd have Whitehead to put a bit of steele into the middle of the park - better than Larsson or Cattlermole any day of the week...a depressing thought.
I always remember when he played against Hartlepool and bragged to one of their players that he was earning loads more than him. What a turd. And he was one of England's worst players as well.