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The more I think about it, the more this squad annoys me. The way I see it, we have several "groups" of players that we could justifiably want to jettison:
Great when fit, but never fit:
Yerry Mina
Fabien Delph
Not good enough to justify wage:
Michael Keane
Andre Gomes
Salomon Rondon
Squad fillers who arrived for cheap, big profit if sold:
Holgate
Davies
Townsend
Gray
Old enough that another contract would be a mistake:
Allan
Coleman
Would generate big fee if sold but I want them to stay:
Richarlison
Pickford
DCL
Personally I would shift Mina, Keane, Holgate, Allan, Davies and Gomes. Keane and Gomes would be the difficult ones to sell, but they absolutely HAVE to go.
That would leave Godfrey & Branthwaite at CB, with Tarkowski likely to join them. I'd look to add another CB.
In CM I would have Doucoure, Iwobi and Gbamin... Not great, but MAYBE Gbamin has turned a corner in fitness terms? Add a strong, calm DM and a young, mobile CM. Build from that.
I know we have weaknesses elsewhere too, but if we don't fix the spine of the team we will be in another relegation dogfight in the blink of an eye.
Great when fit, but never fit:
Yerry Mina
Fabien Delph
Not good enough to justify wage:
Michael Keane
Andre Gomes
Salomon Rondon
Squad fillers who arrived for cheap, big profit if sold:
Holgate
Davies
Townsend
Gray
Old enough that another contract would be a mistake:
Allan
Coleman
Would generate big fee if sold but I want them to stay:
Richarlison
Pickford
DCL
Personally I would shift Mina, Keane, Holgate, Allan, Davies and Gomes. Keane and Gomes would be the difficult ones to sell, but they absolutely HAVE to go.
That would leave Godfrey & Branthwaite at CB, with Tarkowski likely to join them. I'd look to add another CB.
In CM I would have Doucoure, Iwobi and Gbamin... Not great, but MAYBE Gbamin has turned a corner in fitness terms? Add a strong, calm DM and a young, mobile CM. Build from that.
I know we have weaknesses elsewhere too, but if we don't fix the spine of the team we will be in another relegation dogfight in the blink of an eye.
Yep, 100% agree with you.
Moyes used to find prospects in the Championship for very modest fees, but sadly prices have shot up in that division now.
USABlue
Player Valuation: £70m
Here's the the thing with us all wanting to get rid of so many players, it requires other teams to want them and the players to agree to the move. Most of these guys are on higher wages than they'll get anywhere else. Also, since they're crap players (which is why we want rid), why would anyone else pay decent money for them? Alot of these guys we'll be stuck with until their contracts run out
Branthwaite is not ready. This season proved that. He is going out on loan for the season I’m sure. As a result, I’m pretty sure Keane will still be here next season, also pretty sure Holgate will remain. Mina may move on, but clubs would be cautious about taking him on.
Pretty sure Gbamin will never play for us again. There is a possibility that Allan could move, but he has stated he is staying already.
Having said all that, we definitely need CM and CB reinforcements.
UltraVires
Player Valuation: £10m
Let’s be real about this, i think we all agree on the areas to improve in this team.
However, we simply aren’t going to be able to address all areas in this window. For that reason we need to prioritise adding defensive solidity and reliability by getting at least one CB who can play every week and set the line. Additionally, we need a good DM who can play regularly and shield the back line as we will still have to play inexperienced players or players who have mistakes in them
However, we simply aren’t going to be able to address all areas in this window. For that reason we need to prioritise adding defensive solidity and reliability by getting at least one CB who can play every week and set the line. Additionally, we need a good DM who can play regularly and shield the back line as we will still have to play inexperienced players or players who have mistakes in them
Got to get a striker in also (imo)
This is what will happen.
UltraVires
Player Valuation: £10m
Yeah I agree to be fair. I said it earlier in this thread but belotti is on a free this summer and would be a good option for me as he would be sellable back to Italian clubs if he didn’t adapt well over here.
Think of the shirt sales here?
Interesting , defo worth the risk !
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Thing is mate to get Bellotti in on a free you'd have to offer him massive wages, which means if he was a bust, we won't be able to ship him on.
Just look at Mina, Jamo, Allan, for evidence of that, two we are stuck with and one we couldn't manage to ship him off to any semi serious league due to the wages.
Bellotti is also a completely different type of cf to DCL, meaning players you bring in to suit one are likely not to suit the other.
We need a focused recruitment now to a style and to a purpose and to finally avoid just signing players because oh they look good for x,y,z without thinking about where they'd actually fit into the team structure.
As you said earlier about cb needs - we seem to have done that - identified what we need,what we lack and how to address that as part of a plan with current players integration in consideration. It's why Tarkowski is a signing that makes complete practical sense and gives hope we are finally doing it in the right manner.
Next up is cm, where we need two distinct types of players (3 really but unlikely I guess)
Billy Bremner's dead isn't he?
We've probably already spent it
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