Too much dead wood...

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Besic and Cleverly need to go for me. The former is never fit and the latter is guff. Add in the joke that is Kone and the pretender Niasse. I've given up hope of ever seeing the back of Gibson he seems to hoodwink the club into keeping him on year after year regardless of his off the field shenanigans.
 

mattsmithefc said:
Just looking at some of the players somehow still in our squad.

Conor Mcaleny - How is this guy still here? Aged 23 surely his ship has well and truly sailed? A lot of promise for this lad but clearly hasn't worked so why are we keeping hold of him?

Luke Garbutt - 4th choice left back, supposedly. If he's not good enough and isn't going to develop much more, get rid.

Leandro Rodriguez - 23 now. Not been even close to the first team. Another so called youngster which isn't really that young anymore.

Aiden McGeady - Yeah, him.

Frustrates me seeing 22/23 year olds which if good enough would have made it by now. Their taking up a space in a squad which is supposed to be for development, so 18/19 year olds are being held back by a 23 year old, championship standard player.
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Disagree on Garbutt, he is baines replacement and has done very well when asked. We don't have a natural LB at the club.
 
Bryan said:
Disagree on Garbutt, he is baines replacement and has done very well when asked. We don't have a natural LB at the club.
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I myself think Garbutt should have been given a chance but the fact he hasn't even retained his squad number might indicate he's not in Koeman's plans?
 
But with all respect, think the OP has misunderstood the term 'dead wood' to an extent...

That's players who offer zero like Niasse, Kone and McGeady, or very little in the grand scheme of things - e.g. Gibson, possibly Clevs.

Younger players aren't really 'dead wood'. McAleny has run his race though and will be moved on, but don't see why you're so desperate to be wanting us to flog a load of the other kids. Not like they're on big wages.
 
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I reckon the likes of Clev, Gibson, Mcgeady will be gone in January at the latest if we continue to bring in the big transfers. It would be stupid to offload so many midfielders now if we can't be sure new players are on the way in. Last thing we want is to suffer an injury or two and be without any suitable replacements (edit: even if they are crap).
 
BlueToff said:
But with all respect, think the OP has misunderstood the term 'dead wood' to an extent...

That's players who offer zero like Niasse, Kone and McGeady, or very little in the grand scheme of things - e.g. Gibson, possibly Clevs.

Younger players aren't really 'dead wood'. McAleny has run his race though and will be moved on, but don't see why you're so desperate to be wanting us to flog a load of the other kids. Not like they're on big wages.
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McAleny doesn't offer anything to the team. Even if we had a bunch of injuries he still wouldn't get near the team. Ergo deadwood.
 

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