- Oct 3, 2011
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so with the news of niko's departure, our previously overloaded squad has become paper thin within the space of a year. this is pretty much our squad as it stands -
goalkeeper: friedel, cudiciniright back: walker, naughton
centre back: kaboul, gallas, dawson, caulker
left back: assou-ekotto, rose
right wing: lennon
defensive mid: parker, sandro, livermore
centre mid: modric, huddlestone
left wing: bale
attacking mid: van der vaart
striker: defoe
even that is with uncertainty over the future of rose, modric and defoe who all seemingly want out. bale is questionable and who knows whether naughton and caulker want to play backup. harry has marginalised the rest of the squad - [gomes, corluka, bassong, khumalo, bentley, jenas, pienaar, giovani] and now kranjcar has been sold, that lot cost us 55m+ in transfer fees and are probably earning 300k per week collectively and they all know they're not in harry's plans and we know that too. the squad has been horribly mis-managed and now we're left looking paper thin.
this is what happens when you don't use your squad properly, harry can have no excuses as this is the squad he has built. we desperately need competition for our wide players, as well as at least two new forwards, our keepers don't exactly have many miles left on the clock and we're hardly stacked at full back either. but it's no use giving harry the money to buy these players if he refuses to use them again.