Good Transfer Window

After a long day at work I've got in to see it was only Parker that came in today. I've noticed a lot of stick for Levy for not signing ***NEW STRIKER*** and Gary Cahill this window.

Don't get me wrong but I would have loved to see Rossi, Kaka and Cahill all join today but unlike other clubs such as Liverpool (£35m Carroll, £20m Henderson, £12m Adam) Chelsea (£50m Torres) and Man City we don't spend stupid money on players since Redknapp's arrival.

It's quite clear we had cash to splash today with the departures of Hutton, Crouchy and Palacios and yes, we could have easily afforded the £15-17m for Gary Cahill and yes, he would have made a difference.
Instead, we've spent £5m this window and for that we've got Scott Parker, Adebayor, Falque and Brad Friedel. This for me represents brilliant business, there will surely be a deal to sign Adebayor if he's successful and if he's useless then we don't lose out.
We all cried out for a solid goalkeeper and whilst Given would have been great business City wouldn't sell him to us in a million years so Friedel is more than adequate in that department.
Parker's not going to carry us like he did West Ham but we'll always get 110% from him, and he's a quality all-round midfielder and a natural leader in the middle of the park.

Another key points would be that Redknapp is more than likely to be England manager this time next year so whether Daniel Levy is saving the cash for a new manager next season or putting it towards a new stadium, we may not know for another 12 months. But if Levy believes Redknapp is going then it'd be pointless to let him do a Ramos and buy £15m Bentley, £12 Pavlyuchenko type signings only for our next manager to discard these players.

Yes, we'd have loved to have seen Sky Sports News telling us Cahill signed for £17m and Kaka came for £20m oh and Rossi joined for £30m. Brilliant news...then if we don't get back into The Champions League and given the size of our current stadium we'd struggle to keep these class players along with the ones we've got then we'd easily do a Leeds/Newcastle and soon be travelling to Doncaster on a cold Winter's night. (Rather go Stoke on a wet Tuesday evening anyways, that's the true test)


Anyway, to finish off this is what I would play for the season.

---------------------------Friedel--------------------------------
Walker-----------Daws-------Gallas-------------------BAE
---------------Parker----------------Sandro-------------------
--------------------------Modric---------------------------------
Lennon/VDV---------------------------------------------Bale
-----------------------Adebayor--------------------------------


Haven't included The King but when he's fit he walks in at CB every single time.
Essentially, employing a 4-3-3/4-5-1 formation which is popular with most of the big clubs nowadays (Barca, United, Madrid)
Parker and Sandro just sitting infront of the defence to provide cover (main reason City tore us apart so easily) Modric at the heart of things creating (if he can get his head out his own backside) Bale and Lennon/Rafa given almost free roles to create destruction in behind Adebayor who can hold the ball up better than Crouch and can finish aswell as Defoe and Pav (pretty sure that was the description of everyone's preferred ***NEW STRIKER***)

And for those saying our squad is now too weak we could play this as a second team and I'm pretty sure they'd hold their own.

---------------------------Gomes--------------------------------
Charlie-----------Bassong-------Kaboul--------------Rose
----------Huddlestone----------------Livermore-------------
--------------------------Kranjcar---------------------------------
Falque/GDS--------------------------------------------Pienaar
-----------------------Defoe/Pav---------------------------------