Ok... my view on your views 5. Players I think we actually have a big squad of players - with some real gems in there... We need to polish and transition them into the first team. Look at Swansea / Reading / Wigan / Southampton - hardly any of their players would get in the current CFC team, but they have skill, passion, commitment and desire. They also have a clear playing style, methodology and conistent training. They are hard teams to beat as UTD, City and We found out. (Wigan excepted, but 4-1 could have easily been 2-2) So - we need our 200million loanee's back in the summer - somebody (ideally Manager + Tech Director) need to sit down and realisitically evaluate who is going to get game time, which formation(s) - I prefer 2 types of formation, way too one dimensional without - we want to play and which personnel will achive this. We should then blood the players in the first team. Those that need more time should be given another loan spell. Those that have had 3 or more loan spells that are not able to cut it at CFC need to be transfer listed. In all honesty, if we had a manager that was liked and we were winning games - Abramovich, The Board and everything else wouldn't be mentioned.