Conor wrote:

Costa and Pogba.

Sell if need be. This is a proper wish list. I hope Santa likes you

Barkley is well ahead of Ox for me, and that's not a knock on Ox either.

Chamberlain looks the bigger talent to me, by quite a distance too.

Pogba is proper wish list material though. He could turn into such a devastating player. We need to be there when he decides to leave Italy.

------------------Suarez
Chamberlain---Özil---Wilshere
-----------Pogba---Ramsey
Gibbs-------------------------------Coleman
-----------Koscielny--Varane
------------------Szczesny

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Can Pogba play in a holding role next to somebody like Ramsey?

He's played the holding role for France every match he's played for them bar the last match of qualification against Ukraine. He's definitely more of a box to box player, but I think they could play together in the future with more experience.

Still holding out hope that Ramsey and Wilshere can pair eachother when they've grown up a bit.

It will only be successful if one of them learns the Arteta/Bisquit role properly as neither of them has pace and Wilshere, especially, goes to ground too much when challenging. Worryingly, i have read quotes by him "bigging up" tackling yet he is one of the worst practitioners of that skill in our midfield.

Pogba and Ramsey wouldn't work together I reckon. Pretty similar midfielders.

They'd be a traditional 80s midfield, where two box-to-box guys were deployed. This was long before Claude Makelele

Is Cabaye still available? Would love him to be our pivot.

Of course he's available. He's not better than Arteta though IMO. Not yet anyway, he'd have to go through an adaptation period for that position.

As a specific pivot, yeah hes not better than Arteta. As a central mid, he is currently the better player.

Loic Remy to not score against us at least. He was on song vs Stoke by the looks ...

How's Remy's trial going? We're obviously not going to sign him while a rape charge is hanging over him.

Weren't the charges dropped?

No idea. Were they? I just know that he was on bail until early december. Haven't heard anything since then.

Stoke had 2 players sent off against Newcastle; we need to put their strong result into context.

Please please please finish this side off with a top drawer striker who is capable of holding his own, moving intelligently, playing good combination football and who can find net regularly

Just get Diego Costa. Pay over the odds if needed. Him n podolski in a frontline together adds an awful lot of man.