Alcaraz on a free is fair enough, but we need young hungry players, not over-the-hill has-beens who just want a last pay day.

The rest are simply too old or in Turnbull and di Santo's case not good enough, just because they are free agents doesn't necessarily mean they are value for money, the likes of Gallas and Benayoun would expect top dollar in wages. Would be interested to see who has been released on the continent though.

All of the half-decent ones will have massive wage demands and no sell-on value.

I wouldn't mind seeing Parker and Dunne at the club myself Jim. I think both may look to be regular starters though so it would depend on who makes the space. With this in mind, I could see both players go to newly promoted clubs instead.

I don't believe that Martinez has to sell to buy either.

Moyes, Mucha, Neville, Hitz all off the wage bill. I suspect that is the best part of £10M saved per season. I also assume that RM will get the bulk of the additional tv money that is coming this season. I'm not aware that any of it was spent by Moyes after the Fer transfer collapsed.

Don't see any value in any of the other freebies mentioned.

(*On that note first choice keeper should have 1 on their backs not their favourite high school basketball players number or whatever it is and whilst I'm ranting keepers wear green tops and only other colour permitted should be yellow if they're internationals, and jumpers for goal posts...)

Wouldn't take any of them on a free. That includes free wages!!!

It's pretty tough to keep two high quality competitive keepers happy, because the position doesn't lend itself to rotation in the same way as outfield roles.

Remember Howard, Distin, Jagielka, Hibbert, Pienaar and Osman are all in their 30's and Baines and Jelavic are only a couple of years away from joining them.

Martinez needs to start looking at younger players and maybe even giving youngsters like Barkley, Stones, Duffy and Vellios a decent run in the team.

If Martinez seriously respects our youth set up then give them some experience at least - Villa did it, wobbled a lot but at the end of the season they have developed some good youngsters for future seasons

I agree with comments about bringing some of our youth on - particularly those mentioned above - but also feel we need 4-5 decent signings (keeper, centre back, 2 midfielders and a striker ~ an outlay of circa £20m if we shop abroad?).

After all, I fully expect us to be in the CL places and "you don't win anything with kids."

However the skeptical among us will remember the Yobo loan agreement and Fenerbache's ungentlemanly conduct reneging on the payment.

The other ones though are a no go. I shudder at the thought of the wages that Gallas and Arshavin would want. Think Gallas would do a job for Monaco or something. Schwarzer would be expensive cover as well.

Hear that Redmond from Birmingham is likely to leave for 1m this summer. This is the sort of 'bargain' we should be looking at

Can someone remind me what happened with these players and the manager at Wigan? So someone thinks the way to improve our team that finished 6th is to buy 4/5 players that just got relegated. You couldn't make it up, let's hope that the press have put 2 and 2 together and got 5.

Aston Villa have a young side who will be better next season with the experience they've had, their issue was the lack of older heads to guide the young ones - we have them in abundance at Everton and plenty of young lads who hardly got a chance under Moyes. Be interesting to see how the Everton players in the England U20's fair.

Martinez would surely be better looking at players with a re-sale value than those coming to an end of their career. Appreciate that there are still some cracking players out there but as its been said we have an ageing squad already.

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