tim cahill
Player Valuation: £50m
Uh? We have zero decent strikers in the squad (Mirallas is a winger, right?).
We've brought in a near 30-year-old who, when his pace is gone, will be completely worthless. He already has no sell-on value.
Alcaraz isn't a first XI player, and in any case Duffy was more than adequate as a backup CB. I'll understand Alcaraz's signing once Heitinga is sold, however, and it'll have made good business sense.
Our starting XI is OLD. Pienaar / Osman / Distin all comfortably past their best but on big-money contracts, Naismith is ****e, Anichebe is a waste of space.
We need quality.
All comfortably past their best?
Pienaar equalled his best ever goalscoring season last year.
Osman was called up to the England squad for the first time in his career because he was in the form of his life in the first half of the season.
Distin was as good as he's ever been for us last season.
Players can play to a high level into their mid 30's. Over the next few seasons they may not be able to play every week but Osman and Pienaar in particular have never relied on their pace and I think will be able to play a 'Giggs' type squad role for us for a good few years yet.