Does this mean we could have an "Alternative League Table" thread.
Always been jealous of that.
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Always been jealous of that.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
I'd also love to see us get in a couple of younger WUMs from the South American forums were they really get snide. I think our forum's WUM merchants are probably getting too long in the tooth though maybe alright as squad WUMming over easy to fume threads.
mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
Then we need to elect a captain. Step forward @nsno-chris
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
We don't even have one alternative stat metric guy on the forum. We're being run like a yahoo news group, not a 2019 forum.
An "Alternative League Table" and our own MadMax, a poster who laughs at every attendance figure in the league, will have us back at top table for Forum Football again
We will always be small time without one.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Not sure we could manage that many top players mate. I reckon 15/16 tops and then around 10 younger players taking up the squad positions. In that I'd include possibly the likes of Calvert-Lewin, Lookman, Vlasic, Onyekuru, Davies, Banningime, Holgate, Kenny, Robinson, and Virginia. 3 full Internationals in that list plus numerous U21 regulars at top nations. Not exactly a motley crew.
Every successful team ever has had squad players
Even Man United in the 90's had the likes of Brian McClair, Van Der Howe etc
Do we need 20 of them? No, we don't which is why some of the players you listed will get moved on if we can help it, but no team has a full squad of players who are all first XI standard, not even City or Liverpool
Tez
Player Valuation: £8m
Not 20 players of equal ability or quality. 20 players who are feasible starting players. Every one of the 16 players out on loan aren't feasible first team options as they're mostly all terrible.
Schneiderlin was quoted as being kept as a "squad player" and he's one of the few who could be but not on his salary. Can't have a "squad player" as one of your top earners.
Stop
Blue Juice
Player Valuation: £25m
I think I'm more excited for the fire sale than I am for the incomings
Ash Woods
Player Valuation: £6m
Tez
Player Valuation: £8m
As much as it's good to know that club have what everyone agrees is the right strategy this summer, does it not strike anyone else as a bit strange that it's being made public?
Isn't it harder to sell players when everyone knows you want to get rid of them? Isn't it it more expensive to recruit players when the selling clubs know that you need them in whatever the position is?
Isn't it harder to sell players when everyone knows you want to get rid of them? Isn't it it more expensive to recruit players when the selling clubs know that you need them in whatever the position is?
CouchPotato
Player Valuation: £500k
In an ideal world being the key mate. You cant have 20 players of the highest calibre in the team. Well at City and PSG probably. But not at the genuinely managed clubs. The premier league has allowed 23 players to be declared as the PL squad.
McCarthy, Schneiderlin, Vlasic, Baningime, Dowell, Besic, Bolasie, Niasse, Tosun, Mirallas, Sandro, Tarashaj
Possibly Walcott
3 GKs. Pickford, Stekelenburg and Hewelt/Virginia. We are good here.
Out of the remaining 20 players, lets split into 8 defenders, 6 midfielders and 6 strikers.
Coleman, Keane, Zouma, Digne - Main defenders.
Baines, Jagielka, Mina, Kenny - Backups
But we need atleast 1 CB here that can complement Jagielka and fight for that spot. Then we will have 3 CBs fighting for 2 spots. And if we are to sell Jagielka, Baines and Pennington, then we WILL be a lot short. We dont want to over rely on our youths for a starting spot in the premier league.
Gueye, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Gomes - Main midfielders
Schneiderlin, Davies - Backup
We are a whole lot short here and we HAVE to invest in an ball playing CM that will allow Sigurdsson to push forward.
Strikers we need atleast 3. Two wingers and a striker if everyone off your list has to leave. But thats not going to happen. We cant sell first team players and rely on 16 year olds as backups to compete in the league. We will need a 32/33 year old striker who will be happy off the bench and a couple of understudies to him and DCL.
On wages front, assuming these 20 players have an average wage of 100k, thats 2m a week of wages freed.
We would need a CB, a FB, a CM, 2 Strikers and a winger irrespective of the players leaving to even complete the first team XI. I doubt we (or anyone in the history of football) are dumb enough to sign off 20 players and have only 6 players sign in.
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