predict your teams line up

----------------------------Alan Julian-----------------------------------
Barry Fuller----Garry Richards---Josh Gowling----John Nutter--
---------------------Jack Payne-------Danny Jackman--------------
Dennis Oli-------------------Curtis Weston--------Andy Barcham--
--------------------------------Cody McDonald-------------------------

No idea really!

We've not really seen enough of how Hess wants to set the teams out. We've got a solid squad and should make a good fist of it in L2 - we were bookies favourites but Bradford seem to have had the money behind them recently

John Nutter

Interesting thread here bill.

---------------------------S. Harper---------------------------
J. Perch----S. Campbell/S. Taylor----F. Coloccini----J. Enrique
----------------------------A. Smith----------------------------
-----------W. Routledge-------------J. Barton-------------Jonas
----------------------------K. Nolan----------------------------
-------------------------A. Carroll------------------------------

Subs: M. Williamson, P. Lovenkrands, D. Gosling, L. Best, H. Vuckic, D. Guthrie, T. Krul

;D

10th place tbh.

havent got a scooby but at a guess

............................. howard

............. Neville Jagielka Heitinga Baines

........................... Fellaini

.............. Pienaar Arteta Bilyaletdinov

............................. Cahill

.............................. Saha

bench is Mucha, Anichibe Hibbert* Distin, Rodwell, Yakubu, Beckford

missing Vaughan, Coleman, some decent young players. if we can carry on our form of dec-may last season it'll be a good one, that depends on keeping arteta really, through whom most things happen fellaini when he moved to DM was excellent last season and the combination of him winning the ball an outrageous amount of times and arteta never giving the ball away could be pretty special. but we are everton so will find a way to fuck it up.

You've got a good squad tbf, are there any rumors of you signing anyone of note? and/or is anyone leaving?

Always has seemed like a pretty grounded level-headed club where there isn't much drama with the squad and players tend to stay there awhile.

I reckon you could possibly finish above liverpool this season tbh. (not that I think they're some disaster, i just see your club as being pretty fucking good)

*Oh, Howard and Fellaini are absolute legends as well

dunno if id predict this line up, but this is something what id like

------------------------reina------------------------

kelly-----carra---------------agger.........new LB

johnson----gerrard-------lucas----------new LW

------------------------cole----------------------------

------------------------torres--------------------------

subs (how many can yer have these days??!):-

sub keeper
kuyt
babel
aquilani
skyrtal
jovanovic
darby
shelvey

nice team ax, i didnt see much of the end of the season (was working abroad, thank fuck) but a few ppl said aqua man started to show some form. hope he gets it togehter this season

Middlesbrough

Celtic/Rangers select 11.

done.

Linfield

------------------------------ Blayney ------------------------------

A. Burns -----------Lindsay-----------Bailie-----------BJ Burns

------------Curran*-----------Garrett**----------Mulgrew----------

---------------------Carvill-------------Thompson-----------------

------------------------------Munster-------------------------------

Subs: O'Kane, Allen, McCaul, Gault, McAllister

* Dee will probably play as a defensive midfielder to help cover A. Burns who's a young lad full of potential but liable to the odd mistake. We'll also look to get him on the ball as much as possible as he's a real calming influence in the middle of the park, who rearely loses possesion and has an eye for a pass.

** Robbie will be our box to box midfielder, i expect big things from him this season, as long as he can keep his cool and not pick up to many suspension, though if he does Michael Gault can step in.

I'm really excited about the possibility of our three forwards, there is potential to score shitloads. Munster playing off Thompson in particular could provide us with 40+ goals, as both are leathel.

If we find ourselves under pressure that line up can shift to 4-4-2 with ease.

YIDS

Same as last year.

The old Christmas tree formation aye SJ

It's difficult to predict the Liverpool line-up tbh, we've got several players now who play in the same positions and will want to start every week, such as Cole, Gerrard and Aquilani who all want to play in the central attacking midfield position.

I'd probably play something like this with the current team assuming Insua, Riera and Mascherano all leave and we get noone else in before the first game:

..................Reina

Johnson...Carragher...Skrtel...Agger


.........Gerrard.......Aquilani

Maxi.............................Jovanovic
...............Cole

................Torres


Bench:
Cavalieri
Kelly
Kyrgiakos
Lucas
Kuyt
Babel
N'Gog



But i do think we'll get a new left back and possibly another forward (rumoured at the minute to be looking at a swap deal with Babel going to Milan in exchange for Huntelaar - i'd snap their fucking hands off tbh), so could end up like this:

..................Reina

Johnson...Carragher...Agger...New LB (Figeroa?)


.........Gerrard.......Aquilani

Maxi.....................................Cole

......................Huntelaar
..............Torres


Bench:
Cavalieri
Skrtel
Kyrgiakos
Lucas
Kuyt
Jovanovic
N'Gog

------------------------------------Stekelenburg---------------------------------------

--v/d Wiel------------Alderweireld-----------------Vertonghen-------------Anita

------------------------------------------Enoh-------------------------------------------

--------------------------------de Zeeuw-------de Jong-------------------------------

-------------Suarez--------------------Signing*--------------------Eriksen----------

* Thinking it will be someone like Markus Rosenberg or Fernando Morientes, because there's no money available untill someone gets sold. So will be a free transfer striker

Nearly right, Munster was injured, so Thompson played up top, with McCaul on the left and Philip Lowry on the right.

Brought on Carvill at half time in place of McCaul and shifted to 4-4-2.

arteta was thinking about going but changed his mind and signed a 5 year contract, so thats probably him here for his career now. pienaar might go but no offers came in, I'd imagine he's going to stay for a season and go on a bosman next year.
can't see anyone coming in we've got no cash

we're still weak at right back, and whilst we no longer have a shortage of strikers (like two season ago when we played fellaini and cahill upfront a lot) like any team a top class one wouldnt be a bad idea. no cash for that though. saha's ok mind you. I've missed magueye gueye off the squad who has looked a good player in pre-season. also the only uncapped player in that starting XI i put up is by some distance the best one

Our new 17st striker

Absolute beast in League 2

Arse to what we'll do, this is our best team with all players fit imo (assuming Ben Arfa signs):

----------------------Forster---------------------

S. Taylor---Campbell----Coloccini---Enrique

--------------Barton-----Gosling---------------

Routledge---------Ben Arfa---------Gutierrez

----------------------Carroll---------------------

SUBS: Harper, Perch, Williamson, Guthrie, Nolan, Lovenkrands, Ranger

Kadar and Vuckic are better than Perch and Nolan tbh, but age before dark and daring Eastern European beauty

so for the first bit of the season (not just for the game against liverpool, as we have some injuries there) i reckon it will be

.....................Almunia /Fabianski ...................

Sagna..........Vermaelen......Djourou..........Clichy

.....................The Alex Song Experience................

........................Fabregas...........Nasri...................

.........Walcott.......................................Arshavin....

................................RVP........................................

I think Chamakh, who looks like a savvy footballer so far, will start against Liverpool, and with Fabregas out, Nasri will pick up the creative slack. Which I am happy with, he has apparently been superb in pre-season. Think this could really be his season. Jack Fucking Wilshere will get a lot of game time as the season goes on, he may look like an utter spaz when he plays but he is the real deal. Out new french centreback whosenameican´tbearsedtospell will start to replace Djourou as he starts to bulk up and get used to the style of play over here. Will be massively surprised if we don´t sign at least one more centreback though. Goalkeeping situation is a real fucking worry. Fabianksi and Almunia are nice chaps but they are clearly not up to the task. Fabianksi may be the most talented keeper in the world but with a mentality like that, it´s all completely fucking redundant. I am praying that Wenger signs a new keeper or the young polish lad whosenameialsocan´tbearsedtospell really is as great as he is being made out.

MAD TEAMS