[Salopbaggie]

Problem is, as I know you will be aware, 4evaa, if we were just another two weeks on, we could not put out a team of regular first team players (even though I have seen on the club site, we have named 7 of the younger players on the "First Team Squad" page.  With Mozza and GMac looking longer term before the season even starts and question marks over Brunt, McClean and Phillips.

I know many of us complain about the "silly" prices that clubs are valuing players at, however, a price is not silly, if people are prepared to pay it, and it appears most of the other clubs are.  Sadly we are in the position where we desperately need  4 or 5 cover squad players, but we also need a couple of flair players and we can not have both, short of some serious investment.  If anyone can put this in a more positive way I would be really grateful to hear it, as it looks extremely worrying, even more than last year in some ways, as we may have 1 or 2 better quality players, but we have lost another 3 or 4 squad players.

Still almost two weeks to the start of the season, so no jumping of the cliff just yet, but I certainly can not see the board stumping up for players to cover all of the positions we need covering.

Can anyone pick a competitive Premiership team from this, bearing in mind you can only use players in black type?

1: Ben Foster
13: Boaz Myhill
40: Alex Palmer
2: Allan-Roméo Nyom
6: Jonny Evans
23: Gareth McAuley
25: Craig Dawson
26: Ahmed El-Sayed Hegazi
49: Kane Wilson
50: Dara O'Shea
5: Claudio Yacob
7: James Morrison
8: Jake Livermore
10: Matt Phillips
11: Chris Brunt
4: James McClean
Callum McManaman (No squad no.)  
22: Nacer Chadli
34: Rekeem Harper
44: Tyler Roberts
45: Jonathan Leko
47: Sam Field
4 Hal Robson-Kanu
9 Salomón Rondón
19 Jay Rodriguez
Yuning Zhang    (on loan)

This is about the best I could come up with playing some type of 4-2-2-2 with Leko and Field interchangeable.

Foster, Dawson, Hegazi, Evans, Nyom, Yacob, Livermore, Chadli, Leko, Rondón, Rodriguez.

(4evva did you see that p.m. from a couple of weeks ago?)