Our squad is way to big

[MercuryBlue88]

All that shows is we are light in the wide positions and overloaded centrally.

 

[Moomin]

Looking on Physio room website, Manchester United have 8 injuries to its outfield.

So by @BillLovesRoo working out Jose has only 11 outfield players in his core squad to pick from.

The bench will be full of kids surely??

 

[LydiateLee]

I agree, I was thinking this last night.

We are in need of an overhaul in defence where it needs to be Baines, Jags and Sausage Arse's last season with a combined age of 352.

In midfield, Besic is clearly surplus to requirements and I don't see Rooney here beyond this season.

I also don't think one or more of Sigurdsson, Klaassen and Sandro will see beyond next summer.

 

[Abraders]

We need to trim in a little in certain areas but apply quality to others. Think the actual size of the squad isn't so bad, it's how it's distributed.

Obviously need more quality in there too.

 

[Tubey]

We don't - we had European competition and two cups as well as a league to compete in.

Squad in terms of numbers is pretty much fine.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Name a list of managers who have said that.

Now you have changed 23 to 22-23, backtracking from your error.

Look, just go and ask the managers Moomin, it's perfectly simple.

 

[Moomin]

Look, just go and ask the managers Moomin, it's perfectly simple.

Or we get @BillLovesRoo to show us the text messages off the managers as he has already asked them by the sounds of it.

 

[scratchnsurf]

Or we get @BillLovesRoo could show us the text messages off the managers as he has already asked them by the sounds of it.

I will defo ask next time I see one.

 

[Moomin]

@BillLovesRoo how many first team coaches do the manager like to work with on training days??

 

[ToffeeTim]

Very unbalanced. Not too big. And the quality just isn't there.

 

[Barnfred 55]

For a while now i have thought our squad is way to big for us to actually function properly as a team.

You ask any manager and they would much prefer to work with a core of 18-20 outfield players on a training day.

Then you get to match day and you have no injury concerns, even with 18-20 outfield players you are still leaving 4 players unhappy.

How does that effect moral? How does that effect the actual plan the manager is trying to get accross to the players.

I have always thought at most you should have 18 outfield players for your squad for the season, then you can pad the rest out with kids (21 or under, as they will jsut be happy to be in and around the first team).

If you look at our rediculously unbalanced squad we have the following over the age of 21

Pickford
Stekelenberg
Robles

Coleman
Martina

Williams
Jagielka
Keane
Mori

Baines

Besic
McCarthy
Schneiderlin
Gueye
Klaassen

Bolasie
Lennon
Mirallas

Rooney
Sigurdsson
Sandro
Barkley
Niasse

I havent added the likes of Garbutt, Browning, Pennington etc either

Add to that some of the most talented kids in hte league, who some of them you would say are first team regulars now, and probably to good to go back to the u23s

Calvert Lewin
Holgate
Kenny
Davies
Lookman
Vlasic
and now Banigime emerging

Thats 27 players the manager will be working with on a day to day basis (if everyone was fit) how can you get your plan and strategy accross to them with that number of players?

We all know we need to add a centre forward, centre back and left back to the squad in january that would take us up to 30 players expected to be in hte first team.

We have to be looking at ditching atleast 10 of these lot to get the squad size down.

Too big now we're out of Europe and league cup I agree. But not too big at the start of the season. I also believe Barkley, Funes Mori and McCarthy would have been sold if it wasn't for injuries plus Niasse, Lennon and Mirallas were all available for sale but teams only wanted to loan them.

 

[riddick]

I agree, don't understand why Koeman apparently blocked moves for Lennon, McCarthy and Mirallas when he clearly wasn't bothered about playing them.

We need a squad overhaul. Despite just having had one.

I said this just before the window closed. The squad is dreadfully unbalanced..

 

[BigshoutLB]

I agree, I was thinking this last night.

We are in need of an overhaul in defence where it needs to be Baines, Jags and Sausage Arse's last season with a combined age of 352.

In midfield, Besic is clearly surplus to requirements and I don't see Rooney here beyond this season.

I also don't think one or more of Sigurdsson, Klaassen and Sandro will see beyond next summer.

Besic will certainly struggle to extend his contract.

Hopeful that Klaassen just needs a bit of time to adjust

I bought a shirt with his name on the back in pre season ffs

 

[Gladystweet]

We need a striker cull, get some more midfielders in....

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

For a while now i have thought our squad is way to big for us to actually function properly as a team.

You ask any manager and they would much prefer to work with a core of 18-20 outfield players on a training day.

Then you get to match day and you have no injury concerns, even with 18-20 outfield players you are still leaving 4 players unhappy.

How does that effect moral? How does that effect the actual plan the manager is trying to get accross to the players.

I have always thought at most you should have 18 outfield players for your squad for the season, then you can pad the rest out with kids (21 or under, as they will jsut be happy to be in and around the first team).

If you look at our rediculously unbalanced squad we have the following over the age of 21

Pickford
Stekelenberg
Robles

Coleman
Martina

Williams
Jagielka
Keane
Mori

Baines

Besic
McCarthy
Schneiderlin
Gueye
Klaassen

Bolasie
Lennon
Mirallas

Rooney
Sigurdsson
Sandro
Barkley
Niasse

I havent added the likes of Garbutt, Browning, Pennington etc either

Add to that some of the most talented kids in hte league, who some of them you would say are first team regulars now, and probably to good to go back to the u23s

Calvert Lewin
Holgate
Kenny
Davies
Lookman
Vlasic
and now Banigime emerging

Thats 27 players the manager will be working with on a day to day basis (if everyone was fit) how can you get your plan and strategy accross to them with that number of players?

We all know we need to add a centre forward, centre back and left back to the squad in january that would take us up to 30 players expected to be in hte first team.

We have to be looking at ditching atleast 10 of these lot to get the squad size down.

Quality not quantity. Trim some dead wood and upgrade in some key areas...

 

[orly]

Hence why i say

You ask any manager and they would much prefer to work with a core of 18-20 outfield players on a training day

As said mourinho liked to work with 22-23 players including goalies. Take 3 goalkeepers off the 23 = 20 you gargoil

*gargoyle

That's twice now