9. Pay For Two Players With Reasonable Wages
Paolo Giovannini/AP/Press Association ImagesOk, so maybe Newcastle's problems can't all be glossed over that easily, but 75k is still an awful lot of money and there are some very good footballers out there who would probably be delighted to earn even half that. Or, exactly half that, in this case. Thanks to the diligent work of football agents across the globe, there's no shortage of publicity for players who need a new club, and in Urby Emanuelson and Guillermo Ochoa, Newcastle have two players who could not only add depth to a squad that's as threadbare as a naturist's pulling shirt, but likely challenge for a place in the first-team proper. Whilst Emanuelson's contract at AC Milan isn't quite up yet, and they could just be having a laugh with him about not renewing it, his release into the wild would arguably be one of the most high profile in Serie A this season. For those not familiar with him, he's Dutch, 26, can play anywhere on the left hand side of the pitch, and was once roundly booed by Sunderland fans who had mistaken him for Kieran Richardson while at Fulham on loan, where he didn't really impress. Ochoa, on the other hand, is brilliant, and spent the second round of the World Cup group stages denying more Brazilians that a prudish owner of a waxing business. Plus, with Tim Krul likely off to somewhere like Spurs in the summer and Rob Elliott being, well, not very good, picking up a fantastic goalkeeper for a modest fee would be no bad thing. I may be basing that entirely off the back of three games and how good his hair is, but players at Newcastle have been bought on less scouting.