The problem with building is that you have to get all the players at their best, at the same time, and with enough years left in them to be able to carry it through the seasons with only minor adjustments made.
We have some players nearing their end with us in the next few years, and they will be expensive to replace with younger models unless Moyes can pull an enormous rabbit out of the hat.
If you want success, we need to get the missing jigsaw pieces in now while the iron is hot.
I'm very excited that we have finally got our hands on a new keeper to compliment Howard, and also Jermaine Beckford looks odds on to join.
Even with Beckford on board, we could really do with one more striker in the next season.
Apparently there is a good chance of getting Marko Marin too, who is a winger by all accounts, so this would leave us only needing a few covering players, and we could keep Rodders.
However, we are worried about Pienaar leaving for Bayern and that would indeed be a huge loss, so it could be that Pienaar might want to see guarantees before he would stay.
Remember though that very soon, due to age, we will possibly lose Neville, Distin, Saha, Howard, Cahill, Nash, and soon after Hibbert.
We need to be in a good position as a squad as each of these players finally depart, and as much as we don't like it, it is inevitable that they will.
