Can we pretend that airplanes on the night sky are shooting stars?

We could really use a bunch of wishes right now.

Here's my wish list for Örebro SK's midseason work, in order of preference.  For transfers, I opt not to mention specific names but rather the types of players we need as I cannot claim to know the huge worldwide market of football players. I don't Örebro's management has that knowledge either, but they should beat me here.

1. Sort out the losing mentality, declare 2012 the year of revenge and make Nordin captain.  I have been quite exhaustive here before, let's not develop further.

2. Contract two good goalkeepers. High on the list as we have lost one and fired one.  Goes without saying that we need to do something about that.  As a true örebroer, and on top of that from Adolfsberg, Oscar Jansson is a romantic wish.  But I think we need two that are good enough to play at a high level.

3. Find a Bedoya carbon copy.  Örebro SK is not the same without an effective, non-stop box-to-box runner.  I would ultimately want to see a Bedoya type player who is even stronger in man-to-man situations.  Bedoya was fairly effective but had a tendence of getting a yellow card in every game, one more often two of them than zero.

4. Develop the youth section.  Örebro's youths had a terrible year, and will now probably close down their operations.  Fair enough, better to have a top notch under 21 team than a team struggling in the 5th tier or whatever it would be next season.  Players like Kalle Holmberg (who should get a decent amount of A team minutes next season) form a basis for a top team.  Add local talents to that group, make this team the go to team for all football talents within a range of 150 kilmetres and we can have something here.

5. Find a central defender that combines with Wikström. Someone with speed, ok feet, a high lowest level and a winning mentality.  Think Mellberg (Örebro is not far away from his hometown but of course I'm dreaming here).

6. A purely defensive midfielder.  I want Berger, Gerzic and the box-to-box player that is number 3 on this list to be the starting line up.  But we should not underestimate the value of having a purely defensive midfielder, with experience, that we can through in when we want to defend a lead.  Berger is a great talent but still needs to win more balls.  That is why we need to find a box-to-box player that have defensive skills as well, but we need one more because let's face it - we don't have many midfielders left after selling Bedoya, retiring Nordback and Kihlberg and in other ways disposing of Nilsson and I guess also Skoglund.

7. Replace the "ball-striking coach" we have with a talent developer.  The dream choice here is Benny Lennartsson.  Give him freedom to work with a few players: Berger's defensive and man-to-man game, Gerzic leadership role, Rama's positional play and cooperation with Bedoya.  Details that could mean so much.  Lennartsson is also a great motivational coach.

What else do we need? A central attacker? I don't know, if we can find alternative ways of playing I think Holmberg could step in as a complement to the so often injured Haddad and Atashkadeh.

A full back? I will not join the group that says Wowoah is finished.  He had an off season, but part of that was bad cooperation with the egocentric Valdet Rama.  Hopefully ÖSK can work on this over the next few months.  And Per Johansson is an alternative here.  To the right, we have Antonnen hopefully coming back, if we get another central defender both Haginge and Eidur could be complements both centrally and on the right.

Who do we say goodbye to? We know that Alvbåge, Kihlberg, Nordback, Rosendahl, Leonidsson and Lumbana will leave the squad (as did earlier Almebäck, Bedoya and Nilsson), and it seems pretty sure that ÖSK will not proceed with the loans/short term contracts of Riski and Brunet.

On top of that, I would be surprised to see Skoglund come back, Staaf looks certain to go, and I'm not sure which roles Wirtanen should play either.

Assuming all these go, we have a squad right now consisting of:

• One keeper (plus 2 on my wish list)
• Six defenders, three primarily central, three fullbacks, with one more central defender on the wish list)
• Three midfielders (with two more on the wish list. Per Johansson can also fill in if necessary, and Paulinho can cover for Gerzic)
• Nine strikers, pretty much three for each position.  No need to add to that list, I say.

With me wish list completed, that would leave us with a squad of 24 men, but still a pretty thin midfield (also given the Abdulahi has not shown much). Should we get Nilsson back? Or sign another youngster?

Suggestions welcome