Out - Hilario - Ferreira - Carvalho (still a great defender but too injury-prone combined with a high salary, can still bring in some money) - Rajkovic - Belleti - Deco - Mancienne - Kalou (can bring in some good money and he is slowing down Sturridge's development) - Di Santo - Sinclair Out on loan - Van Aanholt or Bertrand - one of them out on loan. - Borini out on loan (to a attacking team, very important). In - Ballack (new 1 year contract) - Joe Cole (new contract) - Anelka (extend contract) - Kakuta (promote) - Bruma (promote) - Hutchinson (promote) - Van Aanholt/Bertrand (promote) - Matic (already a first team member actually but hardly played) - Stoch (back from loan) - Cork (back from loan) - Bertrand (back from loan) - Phil Jones/Jack Rodwell - Milner - Modric/Banega/Gourcuff (only if Joe Cole leaves for the AM/attacking CM role) Mystery: Joe Cole's case is a real mystery. Ancelotti seems very sure of him staying. Joey is keeping his mouth shut. Never understood why Ancelotti never gave him the chance to play like five, six 90 min games in a row to get into his rythem. You really need that after long and dreadful injury like that. If he stays, we dont need a new attacking midfielder. If he does leave, Luka Modric is a good replacement if you ask me. GK: Cech, Turnbull(HG), Delac(HG) RB: Ivanovic, Bosingwa, Hutchinson (HG) CB: Terry (HG), Alex, Rodwell/Jones(HG), Bruma (HG) LB: A.Cole, (HG) PVA/Bertrand(HG), (Zhirkov OIE) DM: Essien, Mikel CM: Lampard(HG), Ballack, Matic, Cork(HG), (Malouda OIE) AM: J.Cole(HG), Kakuta(HG) LW: Malouda, Zhirkov, Kakuta RW: Milner (HG), Stoch(HG), (J.Cole OIE) CF: Drogba, Anelka, Sturridge(HG) Note: Kind of confused about Malouda. He's been playing in central midfield (mainly because of injuries) these last games and dont know if Ancelotti wants to keep him there. He's been doing a good job there and if he stays there, we dont really need a new midfielder right now. A three man midfield of Lampard, Essien and Malouda seems like a great midfield to me. Would love to see Zhirkov play left wing. His attacking play was fantastic when he was playing. A real pain for the opposition with his speed, agility mixed with good ball controll. His crossing was great as well. And almost forgot.. THE YOUNG PLAYERS NEED MORE GAME TIME LEAGUE CUP SHOULD BE THERE CUP *HG - Home Grown *OIE - Only In Emergency
