Goats squad analysis thread 2017/18

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GK
Jordan Pickford*
Joel Robles
Maarten Stekelenburg

RB
Séamus Coleman [+]
Jonjoe Kenny

LB
Leighton Baines*

CB
Ashley Williams*
Phil Jagielka*
Ramiro Funes Mori
Brendan Galloway
Mason Holgate

DM/CM
Morgan Schneiderlin
Muhamed Bešić
Idrissa Gueye
Tom Davies
Gareth Barry*
James McCarthy*

ACM
Ross Barkley*
Davy Klaassen

Wingers
Ademola Lookman
Aaron Lennon
Yannick Bolasie [+]
Kevin Mirallas

Strikers
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Sandro Ramírez
Romelu Lukaku*

Welcome Sandro, ive also re-added Lennon, for now.

Squad starting to bulk out a little, which is superb, few little holes to plug and of course the Ross and Rom issues to be sorted, but its starting to take shape.
 
 

 
I would love us to keep one of Barkley or Rom.. to see Barkley with a player like Klaassen next to him could be the making of him.

Not hijacking this thread... but it truly makes me sad thinking we could be one year too late for both these lads to be sticking around.
 
DanEFC92 said:
You've included Kenny, but no other u23 players. How come?

Garbutt's Everton career done, also?


Thanks for your service x
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A few people requested I added Kenny, I think he might be given a chance to stake a claim, the reason I didnt add anybody else is that there isnt a "space" for anybody else to break through, that doesnt mean they wont, by any means at all. A few of the younger lads will no doubt be given a chance to shine in training and maybe a few preseason games, possibly even the Europa depending on what sort of draw we get.

Im an honest man, I forgot Garbutt was even a thing till the other day, bad fan, yes, if it looks like hes gonna be given a shot, I will add him, but I have my doubts that he will be retained beyond the window personally, just a total hunch and my hunches are ALWAYS wrong.

A few players havent "made the squad" and are just on the fringes, Browning, Garbutt, Shani(who I saw pictured having an op today!!!), Niasse(LOL), Pennington to name a few, the door isnt closed, its just closed over for these boys, if they knock, I will let them in.
 
GK
Jordan Pickford*
Joel Robles
Maarten Stekelenburg

RB
Séamus Coleman [+]
Jonjoe Kenny

LB
Leighton Baines*

CB
Michael Keane*
Ashley Williams*
Phil Jagielka*
Mason Holgate
Ramiro Funes Mori

DM/CM
Morgan Schneiderlin*
Muhamed Bešić
Idrissa Gueye
Tom Davies
Gareth Barry*
James McCarthy*

ACM
Ross Barkley*
Davy Klaassen

Wingers
Yannick Bolasie [+]
Ademola Lookman
Aaron Lennon*
Kevin Mirallas

Strikers
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Sandro Ramírez
Romelu Lukaku*

Removed Galloway, I know its not done yet, but clearly theres a desire to get him on loan somewhere, so hes unlikely to feature I suspect.

We currently have a 21 player squad, taking away the U21 players, thats if we named Coleman and Bolasie.

We also currently have 11 HG players.
 
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Starting XI against stoke for me based on what we have would be:

Pickford

Holgate-Williams-Keane

Kenny-Morgan-Davies-Baines

Barkley Klaasen

Ramirez
 

Joel and Mori whispers of moving on.

Top striker about to leave.

Coleman and Bolasie injured for the foreseeable.

Imo our squad still needs some serious work despite what we've done
 

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