Quote Originally Posted by Grimario View Post
What kind of formation does Ernie play with? Is it two central mids with an attacking mid, fast wingers and a single focal point up front... so basically what we had last season? Some mix of Brebner/Muscat/Lia behind Fred in his first winning season and Muscat/Brebner/Celeski behind Carlos in his second winning season.

What position are Shabow and Petratos? Is one of them a youth player? (Or are Vujica/Alessi on youth deals?) If not, we already have 18 on the books plus need a GK so that means four spots, not five. Neither of their signing articles mention youth squad...

http://www.newcastlejets.com.au/arti...n15607pubzuyjo
http://www.newcastlejets.com.au/arti...b1arns81wehwff

With one spot earmarked for a creative midfielder and needing a GK, that means three spots for the rest of the squad. We have one wide player in Nabbout (unless Petratos or Shabow are?) so you would have to think we're getting someone there as well, unless he intends to play people out of position which might mean Roy shoved over on the wing. That leaves two (maybe three) spots for the rest of the squad.

Cheap Australian GK (Glen Moss has been linked), quality wide player and attacking mid (both foreigners because Australian players are shit) and then two Australian players for the rest of the squad. Is that about what sums up our recruitment requirements?


Completely ignores the fact that we are going to get stuck with a Chinese and Chilean player for the last two visa spots
Shabow is an attacking mid. Petratos is a central striker. So none of them are naturally wide players.

We need a quality winger eg Burns + we need another winger as a backup/pushing the starters as it'll mean only Nabbout and Burns as wide players on the books.
Need a quality AM. Need a quality CB to partner either Boogs or Jackson and a quality DM.

So by my wishlist we need 5 spots available (which we have without getting Kanta!)