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Ross Barkley

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Pure banter on twitter from this lad today.

Edit: for those who don't know, Goodison was defaced with graffiti of 'Martinez out' - in which barkley has posted a picture with his hands covered in white paint saying 'anybody know how to get spray paint off your hands? been up all night'

Edit 2: Either fake or he's deleted it. Banter still.
 
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Thought he played really well in kiev.a few times keeping possession in and around the box with some great touches.and looking hungry to actually getting himself on the ball.could that goal v Newcastle have restored his confidence. Let's hope so
 
...................................New Keeper

Coleman............Stones.........Galloway?......Garbutt

...........................Barkley......McCarthy/Besic

New Winger.................Playmaker.............New Winger

.....................................Lukaku

In 15months we will be left with something like this.
I think that's what I would be aiming for too in around the same time i.e two summer windows but I would cash in on McCarthy and plays Besic with Ledson his backup.

However next season we just need two wingers and leave Barkley further forward.
 
Why cash in on McCarthy? We need 4 centre midfielders; McCarthy, Besic, Barkley, Ledson.

Then 2 wingers + a playmaker + keeper+centre back.

Remove 5+ deadwood and theres a big pot there for salaries for 2 of the above + howard off and his salary covers another keeper. Mirallas again off pays for another player...

If you see what I mean? 4 players could be brought in quite easily with some decisiveness and we should have £20mil as a starting point.


I think that's what I would be aiming for too in around the same time i.e two summer windows but I would cash in on McCarthy and plays Besic with Ledson his backup.

However next season we just need two wingers and leave Barkley further forward.
 

Why cash in on McCarthy? We need 4 centre midfielders; McCarthy, Besic, Barkley, Ledson.

Then 2 wingers + a playmaker + keeper+centre back.

Remove 5+ deadwood and theres a big pot there for salaries for 2 of the above + howard off and his salary covers another keeper. Mirallas again off pays for another player...

If you see what I mean? 4 players could be brought in quite easily with some decisiveness and we should have £20mil as a starting point.
We would have 4; Besic, Gibson, Ledson and Barkley.

I would cash in on McCarthy so we could use the money to fund a No10.

McCarthy's wages are high and around 26 is probably when we should look to sell to maximize resale value.

That way we can continue to improve the quality of the team while making a profit to be put towards a stadium.

We need to start thinking long term because we aren't going to get top 4 next season and we don't have a route via Europa either.
 

I'd be selling Gibson if he can stay fit till summer. He wont be fit next season looking at his entire career to date so we'd be left with three players there and a crock. Wouldn't sell McCarthy, hes class.


We would have 4; Besic, Gibson, Ledson and Barkley.

I would cash in on McCarthy so we could use the money to fund a No10.

McCarthy's wages are high and around 26 is probably when we should look to sell to maximize resale value.

That way we can continue to improve the quality of the team while making a profit to be put towards a stadium.

We need to start thinking long term because we aren't going to get top 4 next season and we don't have a route via Europa either.
 
I'd be selling Gibson if he can stay fit till summer. He wont be fit next season looking at his entire career to date so we'd be left with three players there and a crock. Wouldn't sell McCarthy, hes class.
No one would buy him plus Gibson offers us something different to McCarthy and Besic. We also have Osman and Baines that can play there. We don't need such a large squad. Liverpool put out mainly the same team every week. Even for us Lukaku and Jags play every game. We're rotating players to give them game time and frankly I would prefer to get our first team right and play them every week to allow them to build an understanding with each other.

McCarthy is class but as a club we should be trying to maximize the squad while keeping our spending down to nothing so as to get the stadium built.

If we don't build the stadium we could be a relegation fighting team in 5 years.
 
I thought he was rubbish. No effort at all. Barely tracked back to defend either...
Id agree defensively hes a liability but we need him doing the buisness in the oppositions half.i won't be getting carried away after 1 good performance but it was a big improvement in my opinion
 

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