http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ham-release-William-Gallas-David-Bentley.html I know it's the Daily Mail, but could we get any of these? Not necessarily Arshavin or Malouda, but seeing as we got Almunia are there any who could join?
Is that Danny Simpson of Newcastle? He'd be a very good addition to compete for that right back slot.
Pennant was crap when on loan at Watford even when he was thought to be good. Bentley was a promising talent who lost it; Bramble is a disaster waiting to happen.
Hitzlsperger, Baird, di santo, Schwarzer and gera are five that stand out for me. Four experienced players and di santo, who on his day can be class!
ARSENAL Andrey Arshavin, Samir Bihmoutine, Reice Charles-Cook, Denilson, Craig Eastmond, Sead Hajrovic, Conor Henderson, Jernade Meade, Nigel Oldfield Spence-Neita, Joshua Rees, Philip Roberts, James Shea, Sebastien Squillaci, Sanchez Watt ASTON VILLA Calum Barrett, Josh Barton, Courtney Cameron, Daniel Devine, Eric Lichaj, Andy Marshall CHELSEA Amin Affane, Yossi Benayoun, Abdul Deen-Conteh, Paulo Ferreira, Hilario, Florent Malouda, Archange Nkumu, Ross Turnbull EVERTON Johan Hammar, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Sam Kelly, Jan Mucha, Phil Neville FULHAM Chris Baird, Simon Davies, Mahamadou Diarra, Thomas Donegan, Corey Gameiro, Georgios Karagounis, James Musa, Richard Peniket, Mladen Petric, Mark Schwarzer, Alex Smith, Csaba Somogyi LIVERPOOL Tyrell Belford, Jamie Carragher, James Stephens, Danny Wilson MANCHESTER CITY Wayne Bridge, Filippo Mancini, Ryan McGivern, Roque Santa Cruz, Kolo Toure MANCHESTER UNITED Reece Brown, John Cofie, Michele Fornasier, Luke Giverin, Luke Hendrie, Luke McCullough, Paul Scholes, Gyliano Van Velzen, Frederic Veseli NEWCASTLE UNITED Steve Harper, Yven Moyo, Danny Simpson NORWICH CITY Tom Adeyemi, Lee Camp, Olumide Durojaiye, George Francomb, Simeon Jackson, Chris Martin, Ramil Sheriff, Korey Smith, Marc Tierney, Elliott Ward QPR Tan Ben Haim, DJ Campbell, Radek Cerny, Frederick Champion, Adam Francis, Try Hewitt, Rob Hulse, Ryan Nelsen, Taylor Louis Parmenter, Tommaso Trani READING Nick Bignall, Simon Church, Ian Harte, Noel Hunt, Charlie Losasso, Angus MacDonald, Alex Pearce, Nicky Shorey, Jay Tabb, Joshua Webb, Brett Williams SOUTHAMPTON Danny Butterfield, Ryan ****son, Tommy Forecast, Sam Hoskins, Ben Reeves, Frazer Richardson, Daniel Seaborne, Alberto Seidi STOKE CITY Michael Clarkson, Rory Delap, Matthew Gledhill, Jadan Hall, Matthew Lund, Andrew Musungu, Carlo Nash, Michael Owen, Jermaine Pennant, George Rigg, Mamady Sidibe, Matthew Upson, Dean Whitehead SUNDERLAND Titus Bramble, Anthony Callaghan, Wade Joyce, Matthew Kilgallon, Ryan Noble, Adam Reed, Ben Wilson SWANSEA CITY Mark Gower TOTTENHAM Jack Barthram, David Bentley, John Bostock, William Gallas, Jack Munns, Jake Nicholson WEST BROM Marc-Antoine Fortune, Zoltan Gera, Gonzalo Jara Reyes, Romaine Sawyers, Jerome Thomas WEST HAM Carlton Cole, Jake Larkins, Gary O'Neil, Jack Powell, Jami Rafati, Eoin Wearen WIGAN ATHLETIC Peter Aylmer, Albert Crusat, Franco Di Santo, David Jones, Piscu, Jonathan Lynch, Callum Morris, Filip Orsula, Ronnie Stam, Joshua Sumner, Ryan Watson
Pretty much every player mentioned above would want 10k plus. Can't see us paying that kind of money for older players when the pozzos have such a vast world wide scouting network. Players from South America/Scandinavia/eastern Europe would cost half that in wages and are far more driven than the likes of bramble who is a prime example of the "young millionaire" generation of a few years back. He'd only get arrested for more of his hotel room antics
Chris Baird, maybe Benayoun and Simeon Jackson, the rest are all underwhelming apart from Scholes of course. Could see Ferreira coming here on a year contract.
This list isn't completely correct because although they've been 'released' they're not available to sign, Owen has retired, Carragher has retired, etc. I think the same applies to the ones who'd already agreed to switch clubs in January for free are still listed, Kolo Toure to Liverpool for example. It's hard to know who's actually available without a club. I imagine the very best on that list who you'd think "he'd be nice to have", already have deals elsewhere. Saying that, I'm sure some of the old Arsenal/Chelsea/United/Spurs academy players, given the right knowledge, would be worth a punt. Particularly Arsenal, as they're just jumping a fence to get here.
Chris Baird definately, can play centre mid, centre back, left back or right back (not sure about wing back though)
Danny Simpson as long as he doesn't bring Tulisa with him. Turnbull or Harper as keepers happily. Denilson, Petric, Danny Wilson, Di Santo, Fortune, Bostock, Pennant would all be welcome as starter/squad players
Bostock is crap, Fortune is old and crap and Denilson is crap but will probably still somehow get a bigger move than Watford.
Simpson is a no from me. People on here said Briggs had an "big I am attitude" well he's a novice compared to Simpson.
