Your Top 5 To Buy

Id take this:

Ed Hazard
Van der Vart
Cisohko
Mata/Silva/Dzeko

Would cream my panties and be so happy

c'mon what this decent owner stuff? I hate the american tw*ts too, but...

Being optimistic and in millions $:
Lahm --> no less than 15
Silva--> i doubt less than 20
Mata or Turan --> 20 more (though mata would me more expensive and arda maybe less)
Joe Cole or Javi Martinez  --> Free or another 15 at least.
Aguero --> No less than 50 for this beast.

a minimum 130 million dollars anyone? We're not talking about decent owners here we're talking nonsense. The thread was supposed to be slightly realistic I think. And if you're gonna say well Real Madrid spent some more, well Real Madrid ain't winning a damn, and Florentino Perez is a tw*t as twatty as H&G. I don't even think Man City spent that much the last summer.

I'd like to see hmm.

-->1 LB: I'd like to see vargas, though he wouldn't cost less than 20 mill.
-->1 FW: No way we will EVER get aguero. I say maybe Dzeko would be nice. One guy I really love is Radamel Falcao TBH. And that jovanovinovich guy to give some cover. And Nemeth please (funny hoy we got kuyt and babel and they are so useless up front). (20mill?)
-->1/2 wingers: I'd love to see Joe Cole on a free. Personally I like N'Zogbia too. Or Hazard. (8-15mill?)
-->1/2 midfielders: Ireland maybe, or VDV, who knows?  (8-15mill?)

So that makes like 60-70 millions. A lot of money but seeing how little money rafa has got last years, I'd think of it as some kind of strong investment from new owners. If we're thinkng about getting 5 players with H&G, then it would be like 4 players on a free and a 20mill player but I don't even wanna think about it.

Didnt think this suited the Kop please move if you prefer this there!.

With gerrard and torres saying we need 4 quality players if you had to bring in 5 new players who would your top 5 be? think a little realisticly no Messi's etc also feel free to give reasons.

1. Joe Hart - I said it when he was number two at man city when they had that sweedish bloke who moved to PSV he is going to be the new england number one and a world class goalkeeper one day.

2. Schweinsteiger - think if the unthinkable happens of gerrard going I say ideal replacement or shift out lucas bring him in!.

3. Balotelli - with rumors of bust up with the batty man they will prob look to shift him out if the price is right he would be class if we was to switch to 442.

4. Ashley Young - with Riera on his way out ashley young would be a excellent winger of us.

5. Sakho - hes a young strong defender who could come in now spend a season learning from carragher to improve his game and it would be excellent.

I could go on and make this list about 25 players long but 5 is more than enough as gerrard says we only need 4!

Why would you waste money on a keeper? we have the best...

Names off my head include:

Silva
Mata
Lahm
Kjaer
Podolski
Milner

We need:
Left back- Stephen Warnock (£8m)
Wingers- Aaron Lennon (£20m)  N'Zogbia(£6m)
Striker- Jovanovic(FREE)
CM- Rafa VDV(£7m)
TOTAL: £41million

OUT:
Riera (£4m)
Benayoun (£3m)
Degen (£1m)
Aurelio(£2m)
TOTAL: £10million

Net spend of -£31million which could possibly be done??

Silva, Aguero, Ganso, Vargas, Milner.

Trying to be a little more realistic, I'd be happy with Steven Fletcher (who we could get for a reasonable price as Burnley are relegated) instead of Aguero, who is probably out of our reach

Aaron Lennon (£20m) 
N'Zogbia(£6m)

Can't see them going for this cheap unfortunately. Add at least another £5m onto the price of each.

I would never pay that much for Lennon. He is a good player and usually does well in the big games, but I dont see enough consistency from him. And his crosses... 

Van Der Vaart
Turan
Kjaer
Bent
Joe Cole on a free
Zidane on a free!

We can name all these players all we want but the chances of any of them coming is 98% negative

Personally I don't think there's any point in naming players from Spurs, Villa and probably City. I don't think there's any way they'd want to sell their players to us.

Bertrand Left Back
Elijero Elia Left Wing
Dzeko Back up for Torres
Kjaer

Being realistic, even with new owners: Wilson (8m), Warnock (10m), Joe Cole (free), Simao (5-8m), Carlton Cole(6-10m)

Say we get some serious cash: Chielini(15-20m), Vargas (10-15m), Joe Cole(free), Lennon (20-25m), Benzema (20m)

Bertrand Left Back
Elijero Elia Left Wing
Dzeko Back up for Torres
Kjaer

Dzeko will set you back 40M EUROS

1. van der vaart  2. turan 3.Kjaer 4. taiwo 5. santa cruz / bellamy

santa cruz / bellamy

Hahaha Joker! 

Even if we only get 3 players i'll be delighted if they are a top left back, striker and left winger.

Ansaldi, Mata and Dzeko and we're done and dusted.

Maxi/Kuyt on the right and Mata/Babel on the left with Benny being able to play on both flanks has us sorted on the wings.

Dzeko and Torres up top - sorted.

Ansaldi and Johnson on the flanks at the back with Kelly and Insua as back up. Sorted!

Ideally i would love a solid left back, im not one for taking players back to the club as obviously they qwerent good enough in the first place, but i would like warnock back, hes been solid enough for villa this year!

My number one choice would be Van Der Vaart, think he's a cracking player
Warnock
Mata
Would take joe cole on a free
Have we signed jovanovich? If we have then thatl do me!

You do need them to win titles, though. Right now our squad is so thin that 2 or 3 injuries and we look a far weaker prospect. We need to sign some top quality players for the first XI, but we also need players of a sufficient calibre to step in and do the job.

All title winning sides need good squad players.

Yes all good sides have squad players but by signing 3 or 4 quality players (LW, young CB, ST and RW) they could all possibly slot straight into the first eleven hereby placing those currently in the first eleven (Kuyt, Babel, Benayoun, Insua) to the bench as squad players.

Flog Babel, Yossi and Riera off and we'll need back up to the first choice left winger. Much worse than N'Zogbia out there. I really like him as a player.

Definitely much worse than N'Zogbia but if want to challenge for a title we need to sign players who the other 3 big teams would have wanted to sign, or will be afraid of playing. Big name, quality players. Plus I wouldn't sell Babel or Yossi unless they wanted to go so there would be no need to sign him if we signed a quality left winger instead.

If money was no object.. new owners blank cheque for Rafa

Aguero
Van Der Vaart
Turan
Lahm
Martinez 

Dzeko will set you back 40M EUROS

I don't think so, AC Milan almost bought him last season for 16M (more or less) and this season he has scored less goals than then.

I don't think so, AC Milan almost bought him last season for 16M (more or less) and this season he has scored less goals than then.

16 m? I don't believe that, that would be vastly undervalued. And he still scored 20+ goals this season while Wolfsburg had an awful season, so he won't be any cheaper. The rumours this january were 20 million + Huntelaar or 20 million + Jankulovski and Kaladze. He does have a release clause of 40 million euros but I doubt anyone will pay that.

16 m? I don't believe that, that would be vastly undervalued. And he still scored 20+ goals this season while Wolfsburg had an awful season, so he won't be any cheaper. The rumours this january were 20 million + Huntelaar or 20 million + Jankulovski and Kaladze. He does have a release clause of 40 million euros but I doubt anyone will pay that.

Yes, I confused with Huntelaar, it was 20M. It was almost done in July but Dzeko didn't pass the medical.