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Originally Posted by I'm With Stupid View Post
The following will probably bugger off:
Andreas Isaksson
Kasper Schmeichel
Sun Jihai
Geovanni
Émile Mpenza
Paul Dickov
Rolando Bianchi
Danny Mills
Matthew Mills
Bernardo Corradi
Based on that, our current first team squad numbers 22:
Goalkeepers:
Hart
Defenders:
Dunne
Richards
Corluka
Ball
Onuoha
Garrido
Logan
Williamson
Midfielders:
Johnson
Ireland
Elano
Fernandes
Petrov
Hamann
Castillo
Etuhu
Strikers:
Benjani
Vassell
Caicedo
Sturridge
Evans
By contrast, Spurs have 32, West Ham have 31, Everton have 26, and Villa have 20.
I think they should be aiming to increase our squad numbers to somewhere in the region of 28-30, since we'll hopefully be playing some European games. Backup goalie and right midfield are the most urgent, but I also reckon we could do with a real quality defensive midfielder, a Corluka for the left back slot (keep Garrido to cover LM/LB, and Ball as competition), a 3rd young goalie (maybe from our academy), a really good striker (though that depends on what system we play). The rest should just be any quality young player that catches their eyes.
Maybe have another try for Nashat Akram since Iraq have now gone up in the rankings and are now (just) within the top 70?
Other than that, I want Bentley. I'd be happy to have Ronaldinho, Deco or Eto'o, but I'd treat that as a bonus, because I still don't reckon it'll happen. Other than that, I don't know, because I don't own a copy of Football Manager. I like the Russian fella for the right hand side too, and the DM for Zenit the other night.
Dont forget bojinov. And samaras will go.
Samaras for sure as well. I also think Vassel will also go, hes a solid squad player but not good enough upfront so we play him on the right wing and hes not much use there either. I am pretty sure his contract is up soon possibly go to West Brom ?
A fair few of those players are out of contract the problem will be shifting the ones that still have time to run, most of them are complete rubbish and on massive wages, cant see clubs lining up to sign any of them really except the keepers !
Its terryfying to think those 12 players are probably costing the club the best part of £200k a week in wages....or £10million + a year
Some of them are on big money, Bianchi is on 50K a week apparently, Mpenza, Corradi, Geovani 30K +
I am surprised they havent started the clear out already, Sun Jihai, Geovanni, Émile Mpenza and Paul Dickov are all out of contract. Sven staying or not its pretty clear they should not be offered new contracts for starters.