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Bullet
Player Valuation: £10m
The most thorough analysis I can find regarding peak is detailed below. It suggests that, though there are exceptions, most players and in particular attackers have begun declining by 28.
It seems that paying £25m+ for a 27yo pacy winger was foolish. £20m+ for a 27yo DM is more astute but by 30 there'll be a big decline in value so I hope SW knows what he's doing financially speaking.
http://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-sports-analytics/jsa0021
"The results show that the average player peaks between ages 25 and 27. This represents perhaps a younger and narrower age band than the widely considered peak age of mid to late 20 s. But in line with conventional wisdom, forwards peak earlier than defenders."
It'll be last day or not at all...
We currently have 10 HG players, I think.
*Baines, Leighton John
*Barkley, Ross
*Barry, Gareth
*Cleverley, Thomas William
*Gibson, Darron Thomas Daniel
*Jagielka, Philip Nikodem
*Lennon, Aaron
*Lukaku, Romelu Menama
*McAleny, Conor Michael
*McCarthy, James
None of the other youngsters? How many do we need?
BurnhamBlue
Player Valuation: £1m
From a 25 man squad, 8 have to be home grown.
Actually Pennington can be added to the list now, with him being over 21.
So that makes 11.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/homegrown-player-watch.88879/page-3
Not sure why that thread was closed, but we tried to make sense of it in there.
And Browning, so that makes 12.
Surprised no one is talking about the Ever Banega rumour
14/report-everton-edging-closer-to-inters-ever-banega-who
14/report-everton-edging-closer-to-inters-ever-banega-who
ijjysmith
Calm
I think because it's been rubbished already mate. Yesterday I think the Inter manager said he wasn't leaving. Which is fair enough really.
Does Bill still have the original work permit for him?
Well another thing that was highlighted in that other thread was the size of the first team squad.
Robles, Joel
*Baines, Leighton
*Gibson, Darron
*Williams, Ashley
*Jagielka, Phil
Deulofeu, Gerard
*Barkley, Ross
Kone, Arouna
*Lukaku, Romelu
Mirallas, Kevin
*Lennon, Aaron
Bolasie, Yannick
*Cleverley, Tom
*McCarthy, James
Gueye, Idrissa
*Barry, Gareth
Oviedo, Bryan
Besic, Muhamed
Stekelenburg, Maarten
Coleman, Seamus
Funes Mori, Ramiro
*Browning, Tyias
*Pennington, Matthew
Valencia, Enner
Niasse, Oumar
25 players on my reckoning, we could probably not register Bolasie, but we really do need to "sell to buy" number wise.
ijjysmith
Calm
Happy to do so as well. Despite Tuesday, there's so many I'd like rid of. But not heard too much about departing players. Only ins. So far anyway.
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