How would you trim the squad? Its not easy.

[fangsanalsatan]

The creative playmaker is already there. If Ireland stays as backup, I doubt the club will go after another.

So SWP, Garrido and Caicedo are off then?

And Barry should be filed under 'homegrown'.

[ian494]

Given, can be in the home grown as well, as he was at Blackburn from 1994-1997 (he was born in 1976) so would have been at an English club between the years of 18-21.

Just sayin'

[ant london]

The creative playmaker is already there. If Ireland stays as backup, I doubt the club will go after another.

So SWP, Garrido and Caicedo are off then?

And Barry should be filed under 'homegrown'.

Garrido and Caicedo definitely won't be in that 25 man grown up squad IMO

SWP i personally think will be off

BUT....interesting tweet from The Times' James Ducker

http://twitter.com/DuckerTheTimes/status/18504492025

don't know how I got barry as imported?!?!

[sandman]

Goalkeepers
[strike]1. David Gonzales (COL)[/strike]
2. Shay Given (IRL)
3. Joe Hart * (ENG)
4. Gunnar Nielsen (FAR)

Defenders
5. Dedryck Boyata (BEL)
6. Greg Cunningham (IRE)
7. Javan Vidal (ENG)
8. Jerome Boateng (GER)
9. Joleon Lescott (ENG)
10. Wayne Bridge (ENG)
[strike]11. Javier Garrido (ESP)[/strike]
[strike]12. Shaleum Logan * (ENG)[/strike]
13. Nedum Onuoha (ENG)
[strike]14. Micah Richards (ENG)[/strike]
15. Kolo Toure (CIV)
16. Pablo Zabaleta (ARG)

Midfielders
[strike]17. Abdisalam Ibrahim (NOR)[/strike]
18. Adam Johnson (ENG)
19. Gareth Barry (ENG)
[strike]20. Patrick Vieira (FRA)[/strike]
22. Nigel de Jong (NED)
[strike]23. Kelvin Etuhu * (NGR)[/strike]
24. Stephen Ireland (IRL)
25. Michael Johnson (ENG)
26. Vincent Kompany (BEL)
27. Vladimir Weiss* (SVK)
[strike]28. Shaun Wright-Phillips (ENG)[/strike]
29. David Silva (SPA)
30. Yaya Toure (CIV)

Strikers
31. Emmanuel Adebayor (TGO)
32. Craig Bellamy (WAL)
[strike]33. Valeri Bojinov * (BUL)
34. Felipe Caicedo * (ECU)[/strike]
[strike]35. Jô * (BRA)[/strike]
36. Alex Tchuimeni-Nimely (ENG)
[strike]37. Robinho * (BRA)[/strike]
[strike]38. Roque Santa Cruz (PRY)[/strike]
39. Carlos Tevez (ARG)

[Ted Hughes]

The creative playmaker is already there. If Ireland stays as backup, I doubt the club will go after another.

So SWP, Garrido and Caicedo are off then?

And Barry should be filed under 'homegrown'.

Garrido and Caicedo definitely won't be in that 25 man grown up squad IMO

SWP i personally think will be off

BUT....interesting tweet from The Times' James Ducker

http://twitter.com/DuckerTheTimes/status/18504492025

don't know how I got barry as imported?!?!

Not a bad idea to let SWP (& Ireland imo) have another season to try & force their way into the team whilst finding out if Johnno can get fully fit. We can change over another 2-3 players at the end of the season or even at Christmas if they don't do the business.

Worth finding out how they gel with the new players.