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2017/18 Gylfi Sigurdsson

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Hahaha Jesus wept. Great idea to sell half of our first XI, go back to football manager mate. There's about 10 squad players we need to sell as well, your list would have us left with a squad of 7 players needing to buy 20.

Out of all those players, 2 played against Newcastle. Hardly selling "half our first 11" is it?
 
I’m amazed people want rid of him when there’s about 10 worse players on our books.

Mirralas
Morgan
Williams
Bolasie
Coco
Sandro
DCL

Should all go IMO

Also
Niasse
Jags
Rooney
Mori
Should be let go and upgraded

Need a first choice left back too and baines as back up

Add to that sam and his staff , Walsh , elstone is leaving and wouldn't might seeing bill and his mates gone too... we are in need of a huge clear out ... I have never seen a clear out this big but if I was mosh I would do it. This club is rotten and needs drastic measures
 
I wouldn't get rid of him, mainly because I can't think of a single team that would be interested in him at the extraordinary price we'd ask for, just a year on from buying him for £45m. There's no point selling him for £20m to Leicester or someone, and his value is only going to decrease with age. We could get something out of him as a squad player definitely, he's not absolutely horrendous like everyone else on @Boss_Rarkley's list. I just hope we buy someone better to be our creative force in the summer.
 
The squad next season should be:

Pickford
Joel
Baines
Keane
Jagielka
Mori
Holgate
Coleman
Kenny
Gueye
Davies
Sigurdsson
Baningime
Klaasen
Vlasic
Dowell
Walcott
Lookman
Tosun
Niasse
DCL
Onyekuru

22 Players there : Add 3 or 4 quality additions in the right places, and get a forward thinking manager in

That would allow us to offload:

Stekelenberg
Martina
Williams
Schneiderlin
McCarthy
Besic
Bolasie
Sandro
Rooney
Mirallas

and a ruck of the 'kids' that aren't ever going to be good enough (Pennington, Galloway, Garbutt, Tarashaj etc)

Christ, this squad :eek:
 

Good fun this ain't it? None of us have a clue who will be binned but we all have our opinions. I was amused to see Klassen retained in one list. One what basis would he be kept? Form? Ha Ha.Ha. The awful Davies kept him out and that says everything we need to know about Klassen. But it's all about opinions. If Sam goes, there will not be much of a clear out because the new guy won't have much of a clue about a fair number of our huge squad. I am guessing that all the 1st team coaches will go with Sam so who will be left to tell the tale? They could have a fans survey of course. I would defo enjoy filling that in.
 
Good fun this ain't it? None of us have a clue who will be binned but we all have our opinions. I was amused to see Klassen retained in one list. One what basis would he be kept? Form? Ha Ha.Ha. The awful Davies kept him out and that says everything we need to know about Klassen. But it's all about opinions. If Sam goes, there will not be much of a clear out because the new guy won't have much of a clue about a fair number of our huge squad. I am guessing that all the 1st team coaches will go with Sam so who will be left to tell the tale? They could have a fans survey of course. I would defo enjoy filling that in.

On the basis that the former captain of Ajax (at age 23), having scored 35 goals in the previous two seasons has been given 135 minutes of Premier League football to prove himself
 
The squad next season should be:

Pickford
Joel
Baines
Keane
Jagielka
Mori
Holgate
Coleman
Kenny
Gueye
Davies
Sigurdsson
Baningime
Klaasen
Vlasic
Dowell
Walcott
Lookman
Tosun
Niasse
DCL
Onyekuru

22 Players there : Add 3 or 4 quality additions in the right places, and get a forward thinking manager in

That would allow us to offload:

Stekelenberg
Martina
Williams
Schneiderlin
McCarthy
Besic
Bolasie
Sandro
Rooney
Mirallas

and a ruck of the 'kids' that aren't ever going to be good enough (Pennington, Galloway, Garbutt, Tarashaj etc)

Christ, this squad :eek:

Think there is very little point in keeping Jags and Niasse as players like that need upgrading if we are going to move forward next season.

Jags has done a job again recently as you would expect him to do, but surely it’s time to replace him.

Niasse is never going to be a first choice so we need an upgrade on him too.

The squad is way too big and there are too many players all vying for similar positions.

First team should be built around Pickford, Coleman, Gana, Gylfi, Walcott and Tosun IMO.

We have a few good kids in Davies, Holgate, Beni, Lookman, Vlasic, DCL and possibly Onyekuru, all worth keeping.

Jury still out on Keane and Mori.

The rest are probably easily dispensable.
 

...was thinking about how effective he is taking set pieces but I honestly don’t recall us getting any free kicks around the edge of our opponents box for him to take. He scored a few for Swansea last season, including at Old Trafford.

In the 80s, Sheedy got a quota from those situations. I can only think this is symptomatic of the way we play and the players we have. If you don’t have players who run directly at defenders from central positions, I don’t suppose you get many free kicks in dangerous situations.

Free kicks around the box is a good indicator of how you play and we don’t seem to get many.
 

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