late to the party as always...
i'm currently watching the 4th Stage now, and i was wondering, too, who the new goalie would be. Tsuji is an excellent keeper (better than Konno, IMO, altho Konno is pretty good and worked hard) but you *need* a back-up keeper, in case of injury/ fatigue/ whatever.
from what little i've seen of Little Gatas (just their game at the recent Sports Festival), they're complete rubbish, so recruiting one of them seems unlikely.
oh, and in the post-Saito gatas world, it's good to see everyone getting game time, what with Gatas changing the entire team at half-time. the downside tho is that they can put some strange teams on the pitch: the team for the second leg of the semi-final (i think it was the semi) had, by my count, three defenders (Shiibata, Miuna, Satoda), one forward (Korenaga) and no-one in the midfield...