Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Frothing at the mouth in anticipation of the real clear-out next summer.
It's going to be kin brilliant to wave goodbye, finally, to Tosun, Delph, Kenny, Lössl, Baningame and Gibson.
I'd also love to think Bernard will have been punted by then too, and I think the emergence of our young centre backs who have performed better than Coleman will lead to him departing too. I won't say I'll be 'happy' to see him go, but it's long overdue tbh.
I think it's 50/50 as to whether Sig goes because he's had the manager's trust in the past and I can't for the life of me imagine anybody being prepared to offer him anything close to what he's in with us.
So all of the above, plus Walcott, Besic, Pennington, Connolly and Bowler (those two, admittedly, I know nothing about but if they were any good they'd have been talked about already, so see ya later boys).
Gee, that's half a squad. Brilliant!
If we fast forward to this summer then we should hopefully be punting the players in bold (ideally some out this window):
10 Expiring 2022
James
Sigurdsson
Bernard
Tosun
Delph
Coleman
Kenny
Lossl
Baningime
Gibson
7 Expiring 2023
Digne
Mina
Davies
Branthwaite
Nkounkou
Allan
Doucoure
7 Expiring 2024
Virginia
Richarlison
Pickford
Iwobi
Kean
Gbamin
Gomes
5 Expiring 2025
Calvert-Lewin
Holgate
Gordon
Keane
Godfrey
Remove those 12 players (perhaps kean too) and we have 17 in the squad. Actually pretty much ideal then for us to bring in a handful of new signings to move us to the next level.