pre-season in bunches.
over the next 7 days we will play 4 games: mon 27 szombathelyi, wed 29 hannover 96, sat 1 atletico madrid and sun 2 rangers. this should give us a good look at the full squad, checking for fitness, forging partnerships and playing with formations. atvo will see lots of use this week...
since pre-season sits in the middle of "transfer window" there are rumors and rumors of rumors. we are "monitoring" huntelaar/martins/chamakh/hangeland, fiorentina wants eboue, ac milan wants bendtner, man city wants toure and random french club may want sylvestre. anyone else?
personally, sell/give away sylvestre. hold off on the rest...for now.
ok, now that that's out of the way we will need to figure out the defense and it should be sooner rather than latter. we currently have (cb) toure, gallas, senderos, djourou, vermaelen, sometimes song, sylvestre (lb) clichy, gibbs, traore (rb) sagna, eboue. rb and lb positions pretty much sort themselves out. will traore go out on loan again? we need to keep eboue as cover for sagna, duh. cb...here are the facts: gallas is now on his last year in contract; he's pushing 32. toure and gallas pairing just doesn't work. senderos wants out. we want sylvestre out. (puts on obvious glasses) hmmm...we either extend gallas' contract or we move him out while we can still get something for him.
crap. we can't reduce the cb core to just toure, djourou, vermaelen, sometimes song? can we? no. remember that toure, eboue and sometimes song will be gone in jan and feb for the african nations cup (anc).
(weird sensation coming from over my shoulder) there he is...just staring at me; sylvestre. it's like the geico commercials of the money stack/eyes with the techno music. (shudders)
we could strip down to the core above and get another cb, like hangeland. but that still leaves us very thin back there during anc. do we promote from reserves?
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2009/07/26