2024/25 Abdoulaye Doucoure

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It’s needed

Just removing Keane Doucoure Gueye from the team would do wonders for any manager who wants to play any sort of possession game.

Coleman can’t stay fit and can’t handle the ball well enough anyway. Young will need to go.

DCL and the loan signings are the obvious ones to address. Mangala looks decent and I’m interested in seeing Broja.

I’d love to see us make this clean sweep out the squad in the summer.

It's a fantastic opportunity to enter into a new era without a squad packed full of proven massive underperformers each locked to the club on multi year contracts worth millions per year.

Doucoure, Keane, Coleman, Young and Gueye alone saves the club almost £25 million(!) per year - utter insanity.

Replace Gueye with £20m-ish Mangala, Coleman & Young with Patterson or a new right back, and we don't need any further like-for-like replacements as we've already got O'Brien, McNeil or Ndiaye as the 10 and Tim ready to push on in the middle. Garner too.

What an opportunity for the club to invest and this time get it more right than wrong.