Tel The Hammer wrote:
With 1: Diamanti, 2: Jiminez, 3; Collison, 4: Dyer, 5: Stanislas and 6: Noble all in front of him in the pecking order, he'll only be playing for the stiffs .
We play with 1 up front.
Back 4 + Parker + 4 players + Cole thats 10 outfield players + a keeper.
Zola has suggested he wants cover in every area 10x2 + keeper's.
We need a plan B up front for when Cole on his own is not working, so thats 10 outfield players + a plan B striker + a keeper.
Zola has suggested he wants cover in every area 11x2 + keepers.
22 + Keepers:
Back 4 x 2
Parker x Kovac
Cole x Ashton
Midfield:
Collison x Behrami
Noble x LBM
Jiminez x Stanislas
Dyer x ?
Additional /plan B striker
Diamanti x ?
Lets say you loan out Savio you basicly have no cover for Diamanti (New player from Serie B) no cover for Dyer (injury prone), just Stanislas a kid covering those two and Jiminez. LBM is out for the season. and Behrami aint back yet.
Not only do we need to buy another attacking player, we need to hang on to Savio.
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His problem appears to be settling in London in the English game. Loaning him out to the likes of Neil Warnock would be disastrous. We are concentrating on being the academy the place where Carr and Nani technically develop players. Nani knows Savio from his old club. Either Savio goes on loan back to Italy or home to germany or he stays safely with us IMHO