Luque, Ameobi and Milner is the current foward-line for next year, and to be honest neither Luque nor Milner are out-and-out strikers. It will be interesting to see if Luque can recapture some form if he stays injury free and is given a decent run in the team, I think he has genuine quality from what I saw of him at Deportivo. Basically I think he is good enough to get another chance given that Newcastle really don't have a lot of options to work with. I guess one thing they might look at is buying a top striker this summer, and hang on to Luque until next year when Owen is back.
Boumsong and Bramble are not good enough for a club with European ambitions and they need to add a bit of depth in defence. But I've thought that for years anyway.
They have one of the best goalies in the Prem, which will earn them enough points to stay up. The midfield is also decent; Parker, Emre, Dyer, Solano, Nzogbia are all up to the task. I wonder if Dyer might played further up the park given the striker crisis; he seems to fancy himself to do a job there.