first XI for next season and transfers

Out of our current players i would go for :

Lloris

Walker Vertonghem Kaboul? Davies

Holtby Sandro
Eriksen

Lamela Soldado? Chadli

The question marks represent positions we are currently weaker in and may need to bring in someone to replace the current person in the starting XI. At centre back we either a crocked kaboul, chirches who on his day is quality but very much like luiz is prone to mistakes and being out of position and finally dawson who although i respect as a man he will simply not bring us top 4 if he plays. Options to come in to partner vertonghem are de vrij (22) who has been linked to several top clubs for a couple of years now including us, united and liverpool, i feel he showed his worth in the world cup and would be quality next to vertonghem and from what heard he is avaible for around 10 million other options include hector moreno and N'kolou.

CF is also a problem, ade has a questionble attitude, kane is too inexperienced to lead a team to top 4 leaving only soldado as a potential man to lead our attack however we have no idea whether he will be able to accustome to the conditions in england. Bony and lukaku would be good options costing around 20 million and from what ive seen pochetino likes a big strong man upfront.

Schneiderlin and griezeman would both be quality signings however the wings and midfield are far stronger positions than CF amd CB so should use the limited funds levy puts into transfer kitty to improve the weakest positions.

If we could get the signings ive mentioned then i would like to see dawson, rose, ade and bae leave the club. If we could get around 15 million for these guys i would be a happy guy it would decrease wages with presumebly dawson, bae and ade all being high earners.

Anway back to the point of the article the first XI. Goalkeeper is pretty strong with lloris starting and vorm to fill in if he gets himself injured, knowing spurs when lloris does get injured something will happen to vorm leaving archer or friedel to fill in and even then we'll have probably just sent archer off on loan and friedel will be in america promoting us leaving some fat kid to fill in for us.

Davies and walker for me are both very good young full backs who have a lot of potentail. At the central of defence it really depends on who we can get in hopefully if we get de vrij him vertonghem will form a strong partnership with kaboul and chirches back up.

In central midfield we have sandro and holtby who will be brilliant at pressing and winning the ball back and with holtby also having a very good pass on him i expect good things in central midfield and with many other options including capoue, dembele, bentaleb and paulinho central midfield could be one of our strongest points. Slightly of topic i just wanted to say ive been mystified about some fans attitude to paulinho, this was a player who came to the club as one of the star players of the confed cup with chelsea and madrid also chasing his signature, yes he has not performed this year due to accustomising to a new league and team and his confindence has seemed to affected his ability but can we please judge him after his 2nd season at the club same with lamela, soldado etc

At lw chadli showed towards the end of the season he could contribute with goals and rw lamela could add a lot of goals and creativity to our attack if he plays to his potential. At attacking mid we have our best player who created so much for a team who were pretty flat last season, eriksen is just a special player nothing more i can really say.

As previously mentioned i do not believe ade and kane have it in them to be 20 plus a season strikers who lead their teams into the champions league although id love to be proved wrong leaving soldado and it's a 50:50 scenario whether he has confindence to become the striker he was in spain as well as accustomising to the conditions in our league and pochetino's style of play which means the success of our team very much depends in whether we can bring in one of lukaku or bony. With pochetino seeming to be succesful with big men upfront with his success of lambert if we can get one of lukaku or bony who both epl experience we could have a very succesful season ahead with both players being 10 times as good as liverpool