The top ten players who are crossing everything in the hope of finding a new club.
10. Kevin Gameiro and Guillaume Hoarau
When PSG signed Zlatan
Ibrahimovic and Ezequiel Lavezzi for a combined total of around €50
million earlier in the summer, you feared for the future of the club's
current strikers. Indeed, even fans' favourite Nene - who finished as
Ligue 1 joint top scorer (with Olivier Giroud) last season with 21 goals
- was left on the bench for the team's first match of the season
against Lorient. Despite PSG drawing each of their first three fixtures -
including two 0-0s - Gameiro and Hoarau look destined for bit-part
roles this season. As two talented strikers, they should look for moves
to avoid a frustrating year on the Parc des Princes bench.
9. Kaka
On the surface it's all smiles between Kaka and
Jose Mourinho, but privately the pair must be hoping for a parting of
ways before the close of the transfer window. For Kaka, his Real Madrid
move has never really got going and despite improved fortune last season
a final flourish at AC Milan has obvious appeal. Following the capture
of Luka Modric, Mourinho has no place in his team for the £50million
signing that preceded his reign at Real Madrid and rather than have the
Kaka conundrum drag out further (the playmaker still has three years
remaining on his contract) it would be best if the 30-year-old enjoyed
the twilight of his career as a starting fixture back in Milan.
8. Stephen Warnock and Alan Hutton
The surprising thing
about Aston Villa's poor start to the season is that neither Alan Hutton
or Stephen Warnock have been involved in the club's first two matches.
Indeed, Paul Lambert decided he knew enough about the full-backs from
watching Villa's 'highlights' on Match of the Day last season and
promptly advised them to find new clubs when he arrived in the Midlands.
Hutton has been linked with an obvious move to Stoke, while Warnock is
apparently attracting interest from former club Blackburn, but both
defenders still find themselves searching for a move with only a few
days to go until the window shuts. A drop into the Championship might be
their only option. Or I suppose they could always retire.
7. Christian Trasch
Trasch was seen as an impressive coup
for Wolfsburg last summer when they snapped up the right-back from
Bundesliga rivals Stuttgart. Indeed, with 10 caps for Germany, the
24-year-old is highly rated in his homeland and was appointed Wolfsburg
captain shortly after signing for the club. However, as Felix Magath's
team laboured to an eighth-place finish, Trasch's own form took a
significant tumble. After Magath relieved him of the captaincy during
pre-season, the defender started the campaign as an unused sub in
Wolfsburg's 1-0 win over his former club. If Trasch has any aspirations
of working his way back into Jogi Loew's plans, he should look for a
move in the next few days.
6. Javi Martinez and Fernando Llorente
It's fair to say
Atheltic Bilbao miss the influential duo of Martinez and Llorente after
they lost their first two La Liga matches of the season, conceding nine
goals in the process. Reports claim neither player will commit to a new
contract in the Basque country and therefore Marcelo Bielsa has excluded
them from the squad as they search for new clubs. It's understandable,
considering their quality, that Martinez and Llorente both want to play
in the Champions League, but it would be best for all parties if their
futures can be decided one way or another before the end of the transfer
window. Given Athletic's dreadful start to the season, the last thing
they need is both players sulking on the bench in a week's time.
5. Nicklas Bendtner, Park Chu-Young, Sebastian Squillaci
It
says something about Arsene Wenger's previous reliance on mediocre
squad players that this trio have been unable to find moves away from
Arsenal. "Bendtner, Squillaci and Park will be on their way to go
somewhere," said Wenger, rather hopefully, earlier in the summer, but
all three are still on the Gunners' books and surplus to requirements.
So much for Arsenal's shrewd business sense. The three musketeers have
been linked with various clubs across Europe but they need to finalise
their exits pretty sharpish if they are to avoid spending the next four
months kicking a ball around with the stiffs at Underhill.
4. Clint Dempsey
It looks like Dempsey has burned his
bridges at Fulham. After informing the club he was moving to Liverpool,
the Reds failed follow up their interest in the striker, leaving the
29-year-old stuck in limbo. With relations further strained by the
Cottagers' official complaint over Brendan Rodgers' pursuit of the
striker, the situation surrounding Dempsey's future has become rather
messy and he remains a notable omission from Fulham's first-team squad.
Considering that Martin Jol is growing increasingly frustrated, Dempsey
will deperately be hoping a move transpires to avoid what could be quite
an uncomfortable season.
3. Joey Barton
According to Barton, his head is already in
the Velodrome, which must mean his arse is there as well. After being
stripped of the captaincy and ostracised from QPR over the summer
following his ludicrous behaviour on the final day of last season, the
midfielder spent time training with Fleetwood Town, where he tweeted
amusing pictures of Jon Parkin having his chest shaved. Despite publicly
expressing his wish to move to Fleetwood on loan, Barton is still at
QPR, but it looks as though he will soon be given a free transfer for
the second time in just 12 months. Considering he turns 30 in September,
a potential move to Marseille really is his last chance to stop acting
like a complete and utter (snip snip, removed by F365's lawyers). However, if a move to France fails to transpire, Barton could quite easily find himself without a club for the new season.
2. Dimitar Berbatov
Plenty has been written on these pages
about Dimitar Berbatov's unfortunate predicament at Manchester United
and the striker surely has to snatch any chance of a move in the final
days of the transfer window. Berbatov's situation reminds me, to an
extent, of the time my guinea pig died back in 1993. After a joyful year
as king of the hutch, it failed to rise to the challenge of a new
competitor (my sister's guinea pig) and ended up half-eaten. However,
like United, I didn't dispose of the remains immediately, allowing them
to fester in the cardboard box coffin I had prepared instead. I can't
remember if I simply forgot about dear Snowy or if the eight-year-old me
took some perverse pleasure in storing the mangled body of a dead
animal but, as is the case with Berbatov, it was a relief for everyone
involved when I finally threw him out.
1. Charlie Adam
If Adam wasn't already aware that his days
at Liverpool are numbered, he would surely have come to that crushing
realisation as he watched Jonjo Shelvey step in as an impressive
replacement for Lucas in the 2-2 draw with Man City. It's easy to
imagine Adam sitting in the stand, face like the Scottish weather,
glancing over to a beaming Nuri Sahin enjoying his first Anfield
experience. That was Adam last year, when he signed with a reputation as
the most valuable corner-taker in the league. However, the past 12
months haven't gone well for the midfielder and it seems his playing
opportunities are limited to Thursday night Europa League ties. Adam
could still have a Premier League future, though, with Fulham and
Everton thought to be interested, but he doesn't have long to engineer a
move.
source: http://www.football365.com/topical-top-10/8027295/Top-Ten
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