Will probably see the back of; Riise, Voronin, Kewell and unfortunately Alonso and Crouch.

Barry would be the obvious replacement for Xabi but I'm not sure he would really progress the team.

Definately need to look at bringing in quality wingers and then perhaps developing Babel into the top striker he could be. Wouldn't mind putting in a bid for Henry.

Left back is a must. Lahm?

We need a top-drawer striker, a right-winger, an attacking central midfielder and a left-back. Obviously progress depends on having a happy dressing room, and we definitely don't have that at the minute. I think four of our back five - Hart, Corluka, Dunne & Richards would stand a chance of getting into any side in the league, they're all steady players and have all had good seasons. I'd like us to go for Steven Whittaker of Rangers for left-back, i've seen him play a few times this year and he looks excellent. In midfield, and assuming we keep the 4-5-1, i'm happy enough with Hamman & Gelson sharing the holding midfielder's position (the latter who i think will be a top PL player in a couple of years), and Johnson & Ireland sharing the other central role, with Elano and a new signing making up the orher place between them. On the left, Petrov is brilliant, but we're really unbalanced and need someone like him on the right. I think we should go for broke, break the bank for someone like Quaresma or Robinho (both of which are said to be unhappy), or failing that either Bentley from Blackburn, Valencia from Wigan or even someone steady like Milner from Newcastle. Then upfront we need to spend big, we need a real targetman and a front for the team, someone in the mould of Tevez, Berbatov, Rooney or Drogba, but obviously not one of those. I can't really think of one off the top of my head, but maybe a Fabiano, or even Terry Henry, which might not be as unrealistic as it sounds, or even to a lesser extent someone like Kenwyne Jones. I also like Zarate at Birmingham. I just hope we don't sign Ronaldinho, but it looks very likely that we will. Going out, well, lots of shit on free transfers first of all - Danny Mills, Paul Dickov, Bernardo Corradi, Geovanni, Matthew Mills, Schmeichel, Sun Jihai. Andreas Isaksson will leave, probably get a million or so for him. Rolando Bianchi's agreed an £8m move to Lazio, and Samaras might stay at Celtic for around £2.5m. Were Sven to have stayed then i'd have thought that subject to these improvements we could've had a real go at top six next year, maybe sneak to a cup final, who knows? As it is, i'm not sure i'd be that confident about us doing anything at all. The most important signing of the summer for us will be a new contract for Richard Dunne.

arsenal ought to keep hleb. but get rid of toure, make someone else captain other than gallas, and get a quality striker. pato might be a good one though i don't know if AC would let him go

Arsenal should sign him. And a dogged Flamini replacement. And a quick winger. Get rid of Eboue, he's a fool.

who is probably going...

Campo (past it)
Diouf (needs new challenge)
Jaaskeleinen (was always heading off)
Stelios (hope not, great squad player to have around)
Braaten (shite)
Meite (twat)
Rasiak (i really, really, hope)
Helguson (always injured)
Andranik (hope not, looked like he had a bit of potential)
Alonso (all but disappeared)

in terms of coming in, there needs to be alot of new faces...been linked with muamba who i'm abit indifferent about and don't think its a primary position of concern...also i think guthrie should be secured on a permanent. i wouldnt mind grabbing sonko from reading, if he's on his way out and also zarate looks good but we clearly have no chance getting him.

ebanks-blake from wolves would be worth a go i think and out of all the shitty no-mark forwards we get linked with, i'd probably go for david nugent. we've also been linked with crewe's nicky maynard, who i used to play against back in the day, but he needs at least another injury-free season at crewe before his true potential can be measured.

than bringing anyone else in. But someone who can do a better job than Reid, and someone to at least give Peds a slight challenge for starting position would be fine by me.

David Moyes has been promised a massive £20m budget! Hmm, so a few more utility players and lots of interest in midfielders who won't come to Everton. Four loan signings at five to midnight on deadline day.

We have loads still to play for but I'll still take part.

Drogba looks to be off in the summer and replacing him is a must, although I can't see who we could buy as a like for like replacement.
I can see Bridge, Sidwell, Shevchenko, Pizarro and Ben Haim also leaving, the first of that list being the only one that I'd be even remotely bothered about.
We're trying to sign Messi but I think the chances are it won't happen, Henry on the other hand looks a lot more likely.
I would be looking to sign Dani Alves from Sevilla, failing that Philip Lahm. I wouldn't mind us signing Berbatov providing we play someone up with him like Anelka/Kalou. He won't be able to do the lone front man job that Drogba does so expertly.

I wonder who will sign Arshavin, looking forward to see how he performs in the premiership.

to choose the transfer targets, and who we can realistically get

well we already have Modric, so thats one position sorted out. Beyond that we will get rid of the fringe/squad players.

need a new GK for sure, a new decent centre back to partner woodgate/provide cover for King if he ever gets fit (which i now doubt, massive shame, he improves us massively) get rid of chimbonda, get Bale (L) fit.

Midfield, Jena and Modric look like a decent pairing in the middle, or maybe push one out wide and get a decent holding midfield player to support the other. Maybe sell Lennon, as he doesnt look like really breaking through or improving to become a truly decent player, as much as he was exciting.

If berbatov leaves then we need at least one new top quality striker (possibly villa), and if not and we can get something for Bent then id let him go and sign someone else.

Get rid:
Saha-never plays and too inconsistent

Not sure about anyone else...maybe a couple of youngesters. Pique might go, but I'd like to keep him really, a young centre back/midfielder who looks good on the ball. It's whether he wants to play first team football now, or in the near future though. He'll probably play 10/15 matches next season, like this season, but centre backs often don't come to their best until 25ish.
Silvestre will probably stay, can't really see him being that bothered about playing every game, when he hasn't for the last 9 years. Would be second choice left back and decent cover.

Buy:
A striker, possibly Huntelaar if not Berbatov.
A right back would be good, but considering how well Wes Brown has been this season in that position, and the fact that we have Hargreaves who is also competent there/Neville possibly back and O'Shea, it's not a pressing concern.

I'd be happy with only one or two signings, Flamini will probably need replacing although Denilson may be able to fill in for him. I think we'll need an attacking midfielder to replace rosicky as I don't think he'll ever be fit enough to play a series of games, the same could be said of Van Persie which is a shame. Eboue, although a knob, should probably not be sold but should not be first choice and should be trusted at right back over toure if Sagna's out.
However I don't think a major overhaul is needed, we were close this year.

The massive irony is that we need to get rid off pretty much everyone except Larsson, Mcfadden, Zarate and perhaps Jaidi. Unfortunately these are exactly the players we're going to lose by dropping down to the fizzy pop league.

I think we have a good squad as it is but there's a few improvements that could be made.

We need a striker. Samaras is NOT the answer, not for £2.5m anyway...

We need another centre back to compete with the McManus and Caldwell. O'Dea deserves a chance.

We need a better back up goalie, I don't think Mark Brown is up to the task.

We need a left bank. Naylor is good but he needs competition to get him playing at his full capacity, he's looked quite laboured recently.

Not too sure what else, we have a very good squad, just need to figure out our best 11.

no idea who though. and a left mid - Bilyaletdinov from loco moscow has been mentioned.

other than that the only transfer target for us is keeping berbatov for another year.

I think we need a whole new back four. I'd like to loan Cranie again, as he looked so composed before he broke his leg. Fitz Hall looks OK, but we need a centre back who inspires confidence in everyone around him. Who this mythical man is I do no know.

Looks like Cerny is coming from Spurs. I like Lee Camp, but if he got injured we'd be fucked so good work.

We also need a dog of a DM who can clean up and let Buzz unleash hell.

I'd also like a poacher of a striker.

The biggest signing would definitely be keeping Gigi as manager - he knows what he's doing and has got us playing some great stuff. Keep it on the deck in the Championship and you'll rip people apart.

about this chap?

Bafetimbi Gomis...apparently bolton are linked with him

Another massive overhaul of the squad is probably not a good idea, it also won't be happening seeing as we have no money.

I think there is some quality in the squad, but they all bottled it toward the end of the season. The pressure to go straight back up was too much for them. We probably still need a good 4 or 5 new players, it's a shame we don't still have Andy Reid because someone like him would be perfect right now.

Pardew seems to be lumping all of next seasons hopes on a 16 year old academy player.

No-one that 'needs' to be got rid of, although in true Non-League tradition, we'll lose a few players to other clubs for various reasons. I'd expect 'keeper Dickie Wilmot to retire (possibly stay on as a coach?), and I'm fairly sure that we're losing a defender to America.

As for strengthening: a new first choice keeper to replace Wilmot, as many defenders as possible and a target-man would be good. We could do worse than Sam Tanner in goal (Leyton's first choice this season) since I'm sure he'd be available and affordable. Difficult to come up with names that we'd be likely to be able to get for the other spots - I'm sure ht27 could think of a few though.

Regardless of whether or not we go up we badly need a source of goals.

Trundle seemed to finally click into place on Saturday and it'd be great if he can maintain that next season but, even if he can, we need another striker who gets goals. Brooker's not been fit for a couple of seasons but, even now he is, I don't see him as a regular Championship goalscorer. Nor are Byfield or Adebeola. I'm not sure who we'd get in but this season at least (I think this season'll be tougher) a 20 (or even 15) a season striker was the difference between the play-offs and promotion.

Aside from that the squad certainly doesn't need mass changes. A bit more strength in depth perhaps but our first XI are pretty solid.

but more realistically, i'd like to see Carroll stay, Mears, Leacock, Barnes, Villa, Sterjovski and er... that's about it. Miller will leave, Earnshaw will leave, and i wo't be too unhappy about either departure. Maybe Claude Davies can stay, but he needs to learn how not to be such a fucking liability.

Stubbs can probably do a job in the championship but we need to let Big Dave go as although he gives his all, he is simply not a good enough footballer.