The Clear-out

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Reality is that the clear out happens next summer when most of the real yard dogs leave on a Bosman.

We're now a year behind on ambition and need to aim to steady the ship and finish 5th/6th. Bring a few in, move anything we can other than the essential players on long-term deals, and finish mid-to-high-60s on points with a better, deeper squad and better injury luck.

Far too sensible for this thread

 

[Martin Alvito]

Far too sensible for this thread

I discard half of the posts I write prior to posting them more or less on these grounds.

 

[Baggzio]

How do people come to the conclusion that selling Dom would be good business? I don't think he's amazing but there's legitimately AT LEAST 15 others in the squad I'd sell before him. The reason we've been so poor since Rom left is we sold him first then scrambled to replace him. By all means if we buy a decent forward next season and can spread goals around, create more chances and not be so reliant on Dom next year, maybe next summer we could look at maybe seeing massive offers come in but literally no team that wants success sells their star players without anything lined up behind them, it's madness.

Look at Leicester, they sold Kante, Maguire, Drinkwater, Chillwell and would've sold Vardy all for massive money but they had them all ready with replacements like Tielemens, Soyuncu, Maddison and Castagne. They didn't suffer a massive drop off in quality from who they sold but they made massive profits which then allowed them to spend good money on the likes of Fofana and Justin who are already worth massive amounts more than they paid for them. With Vardy they already had Iheanacho waiting in the wings to replace him and that looks to be what's happening now.

Call them bottlers or whatever you want for narrowly missing out on CL 2 years in a row but they were in the Championship 7 years ago now they're a league winning side and constantly challenging for the League. It's a disgrace teams like us and Spurs, even Arsenal too, act like we're some sleeping giants or any of that crap, just go out there and do the business properly. Leicester are the blueprint for anyone to have success in this league, follow it.

 

[Gilbert..]

How do people come to the conclusion that selling Dom would be good business? I don't think he's amazing but there's legitimately AT LEAST 15 others in the squad I'd sell before him. The reason we've been so poor since Rom left is we sold him first then scrambled to replace him. By all means if we buy a decent forward next season and can spread goals around, create more chances and not be so reliant on Dom next year, maybe next summer we could look at maybe seeing massive offers come in but literally no team that wants success sells their star players without anything lined up behind them, it's madness.

Look at Leicester, they sold Kante, Maguire, Drinkwater, Chillwell and would've sold Vardy all for massive money but they had them all ready with replacements like Tielemens, Soyuncu, Maddison and Castagne. They didn't suffer a massive drop off in quality from who they sold but they made massive profits which then allowed them to spend good money on the likes of Fofana and Justin who are already worth massive amounts more than they paid for them. With Vardy they already had Iheanacho waiting in the wings to replace him and that looks to be what's happening now.

Call them bottlers or whatever you want for narrowly missing out on CL 2 years in a row but they were in the Championship 7 years ago now they're a league winning side and constantly challenging for the League. It's a disgrace teams like us and Spurs, even Arsenal too, act like we're some sleeping giants or any of that crap, just go out there and do the business properly. Leicester are the blueprint for anyone to have success in this league, follow it.

Good post. To put into comparison i had a quick look at leicesters goals from midfield. Nearly 30.
In comparison to Evertons which was...actualy i cant type it. Its so embarrassing i dont think it should be in print.

 

[rochdaleblue]

Still I think he’s looked a bit lazy and in interested in recent times, even with better supply he’s miles behind Salah and Kane.

I wasn’t comparing him to those two, I wish he was that calibre of player. It was more the point, neither of those two would get the goals they have with the service DCL and Richarlison receive.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

This is going to be like clearing your garage or your loft out.
You re-find something, think I paid £20 for that, I’ll get a £10 on eBay, no one interested, then £5 on Facebook market, still no one.
Take it to the car boot, £2. Only a turkish guy offers you 50p to loan it for a year, that you don’t accept.
So finally chuck it in the skip on the way home.
That’s our squad clear out that is.

 

[forever everton]

This is going to be like clearing your garage or your loft out.
You re-find something, think I paid £20 for that, I’ll get a £10 on eBay, no one interested, then £5 on Facebook market, still no one.
Take it to the car boot, £2. Only a turkish guy offers you 50p to loan it for a year, that you don’t accept.
So finally chuck it in the skip on the way home.
That’s our squad clear out that is.

And then the skip guy turns up and says you can’t put that in there

 

[SerenityNigh]

Who would you most love to see never play for us again after this summer from the shower of mammary glands we have in the squad now?

Keane, Sigurdsson, Iwobi, Gomes, Delph for me.

The only ones that I really want gone are Sigurdsson and Delph. And they'll probably still be here at the end of summer. We know practically speaking Bernard needs to move on, as well as Kenny. And I'd like to see some movement from the CBs but that's only likely to mean Holgate or Branthwaite. I'm not getting my hopes up, but if we got rid of Siggy and Delph I'd be over the moon. *And Tosun, is he gone yet? Let's be rid of him too.

 

[Toffee-nerd]

Players who are good enough to start for us if we want Europe:
Digne
Godfrey
Doucoure
Allan
James
Dcl
Richy

The bulk of our squad can get in the bin. The squad is sh1te. Even those above are inconsistent game to game. Half our squad have been literally useless this season, what have Gomes, Delph, Iwobi, King, Bernard, Nkounkou etc contributed this season? No more excusing of players who are either comfortable picking up a massive wage doing sod all or simply arent good enough. Don't worry though lads, we will have Jank Tosun returning to "fight for his place" news any day now.