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Goats squad analysis thread 2019/20

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Manager: Marco Silva

GK
Jordan Pickford
Jonas Lössl
Maarten Stekelenburg

RB
Séamus Coleman
Cuco Martina

LB
Lucas Digne
Leighton Baines

CB
Yerry Mina
Michael Keane
Mason Holgate
Matthew Pennington

DM/CM/AM
Gylfi Sigurðsson
André Gomes
Fabian Delph
Tom Davies
James McCarthy
Morgan Schneiderlin
Muhamed Bešić
Joe Williams
Beni Baningime
Callum Connolly

Widers
Richarlison
Bernard
Theo Walcott
Henry Onyekuru
Yannick Bolasie
Kevin Mirallas

ST
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Cenk Tosun
Oumar Niasse

Total players: 30

Players culled so far: 13

Williams(OOC), Jagielka(OOC), JJK(Loan), Vlasic(Sale), Sandro(Loan), Galloway(Free), Virginia(Loan), Dowell(Loan), Garbutt(Loan), Tarashaji(Loan), Robinson(Sale), Lookman(Sale), Gana(Sale)

Players purchased so far: 3
Lossl, Gomes, Delph
 
Manager: Marco Silva

GK
Jordan Pickford
Jonas Lössl
Maarten Stekelenburg

RB
Séamus Coleman
Cuco Martina

LB
Lucas Digne
Leighton Baines

CB
Yerry Mina
Michael Keane
Mason Holgate
Matthew Pennington

DM/CM/AM
Gylfi Sigurðsson
André Gomes
Fabian Delph
Tom Davies
James McCarthy
Morgan Schneiderlin
Muhamed Bešić
Joe Williams
Beni Baningime
Callum Connolly

Widers
Richarlison
Bernard
Theo Walcott
Henry Onyekuru
Yannick Bolasie
Kevin Mirallas

ST
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Cenk Tosun
Oumar Niasse

Total players: 30

Players culled so far: 13

Williams(OOC), Jagielka(OOC), JJK(Loan), Vlasic(Sale), Sandro(Loan), Galloway(Free), Virginia(Loan), Dowell(Loan), Garbutt(Loan), Tarashaji(Loan), Robinson(Sale), Lookman(Sale), Gana(Sale)

Players purchased so far: 3
Lossl, Gomes, Delph

Very Keen to see the next update.
 
Boy, this is fun :)
Tried to set up this wrt cover (in case of emergency injury crisis), and given Kean and Gbamin signing, Brands still has some magic to do.
But some decent options here!
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Pickford
Lossl
Stekelenburg

Coleman Keane Mina Digne
???
??? Holgate Baines
(Holgate) (Gibson) (Gbamin) (Delph)

Gomes Gbamin
Schneiderlin Delph
Baningime (Davies)


Richarlison Sigurdsson Bernard
Walcott Davies
???
(Broadhead) (Bernard) (DCL)

Kean
DCL
(Richarlison)

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Current squad (want-to-keep)
21 first-teamers
2 u23 covers
= 23 players

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MUST-MUST-HAVE:
DC

MUST-HAVE
AML

SHOULD-HAVE
DR

NICE-TO-HAVE
Reinier :)

If all is signed, that would give us 25 first-teamers + a few promising U23
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Second chances/emergency considerations if DD goes to [Poor language removed]?:
Mirallas covering RB with Holgate
Bolasie covering AML with DCL/Richarlison
Tosun covering SC with DCL more applied wide
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DESIRED OUTS:
Onyekuru* 20k
Besic* 30k
Pennington* 15k
McCarthy* 50k
Tosun* 70k
Niasse* 55k
Martina* 25k
Mirallas* 70k
Bolasie* 75k

=360K p/w
 

Second chances/emergency considerations :
Mirallas covering RB with Holgate
Bolasie covering AML with DCL/Richarlison
Tosun covering SC with DCL more applied wide

This bit made me weep.

Get those 3 clowns in the out section, I would rather play with 10 men than watch any of them play for us again.
 
Second chances/emergency considerations :
Mirallas covering RB with Holgate
Bolasie covering AML with DCL/Richarlison
Tosun covering SC with DCL more applied wide

This bit made me weep.

Get those 3 clowns in the out section, I would rather play with 10 men than watch any of them play for us again.

Besides Tosun, which I think is quite OK as backup, I totally agree, and it highlights why an offensive wideman is essential. (Well, RB and DC as well tbh )
 
Christ, there is some amount of crap in our squad.

Criminal if we don't bring in a CB, RB and a winger (after Gbamin and Kean that is).
These 9 could go now and leave us with 21 players
Maarten Stekelenburg, Cuco Martina, Matthew Pennington, James McCarthy, Muhamed Bešić, Yannick Bolasie, Kevin Mirallas, Cenk Tosun, Oumar Niasse

Looking at the DM/CM/AM list, Davies i dont think we can afford to loan as some of said we should, and Schneiderlin I wouldnt want to lose now, as really in the section we only have 3 main starters, which isnt enough with out the back ups of TD and MS
 

These 9 could go now and leave us with 21 players
Maarten Stekelenburg, Cuco Martina, Matthew Pennington, James McCarthy, Muhamed Bešić, Yannick Bolasie, Kevin Mirallas, Cenk Tosun, Oumar Niasse

Looking at the DM/CM/AM list, Davies i dont think we can afford to loan as some of said we should, and Schneiderlin I wouldnt want to lose now, as really in the section we only have 3 main starters, which isnt enough with out the back ups of TD and MS

yeah,

i can't see any links for those above sadly. An apparent bid for Mccarthy aside, there's been nothing really. Think Stek will stay as it allows us to keep virginia on loan, Tosun i'm okay with staying for now as one of the three strikers.

Imo we need 2 for every position , as well as a 5th choice centre back, 5 choice centre mid and a 3rd striker, 25 is the perfect squad number, so the 21 you say plus the 5 faces marco said we need is about that.

But boy, that list of players above is going to be so hard to shift.
 
Manager: Marco Silva

GK
Jordan Pickford
Jonas Lössl
Maarten Stekelenburg

RB
Séamus Coleman
Cuco Martina

LB
Lucas Digne
Leighton Baines

CB
Yerry Mina
Michael Keane
Mason Holgate
Matthew Pennington

DM/CM/AM
Gylfi Sigurðsson
André Gomes
Fabian Delph
Tom Davies
James McCarthy
Morgan Schneiderlin
Muhamed Bešić
Beni Baningime
Callum Connolly

Widers
Richarlison
Bernard
Theo Walcott
Henry Onyekuru
Yannick Bolasie
Kevin Mirallas

ST
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Cenk Tosun
Oumar Niasse

Total players: 29

Players culled so far: 14

A.Williams(OOC), Jagielka(OOC), JJK(Loan), Vlasic(Sale), Sandro(Loan), Galloway(Free), Virginia(Loan), Dowell(Loan), Garbutt(Loan), Tarashaji(Loan), Robinson(Sale), Lookman(Sale), Gana(Sale), J.Williams(Sale)

Players purchased so far: 3
Lossl, Gomes, Delph
 
We actually could do with two attackers coming in. Ideally we get DCL out on loan / sold, have two new strikers who can place pressure on each other for the attacking spot, and have Richarlison in hand as someone who can come in due to injury/suspensions as an emergency striker who leads the attack. Also get Zaha in and add some pace and virtuosity.

The end of last season we did very well against the odds of having a gummy attack. That should have been addressed right at the start of the window. Now we're in a mess.

Couldn't agree more.
You can see us having a great season, beating the RS and Utd at their gaff, being around 5th with half a dozen games to play and then Kean gets injured. Who are we going to call then Ghostbusters?
 
Culled 14 and the squad still looks horrifically stacked with crap. Just shows the job Brands had on his hands.
 
Couldn't agree more.
You can see us having a great season, beating the RS and Utd at their gaff, being around 5th with half a dozen games to play and then Kean gets injured. Who are we going to call then Ghostbusters?

I think its totally unrealistic to expect the club to buy 2 Strikers in 1 window, but thats just me.
 

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