Building a new team.

[blueblue]

No matter who is manager next season that is the task ahead of him. What has got to work with ?

Players that should be starters .
Pickford
Coleman
Walcott
Sigurdsson
Tosun(probably)
Gueye(probably)

Young players that have potential to be good
Davies
DCL
Kenny


players who have not contributed but maybe will do in the future
Funes Mori
Lookman
Vlasic

Players whose time at Everton may be at an end .
Jagielka
Baines
Williams
Niasse
Schneiderlin
Robles

Players I have no clue about going forward
Bolasie
Rooney
Keane
Klaasen

 

[Brisan123]

You forgot Henry and Holgate Beni and probably a few more

 

[nsno-chris]

I’d sell Iceland

 

[Abraders]

Robles is more than fine as no2 if he's ok to wait for opportunities.

Niasse deserves a place in the squad, if we are in multiple cups etc then it makes sense to have backup who can find the net at crucial moments.

 

[COYBL25]

Bolasie and Keane need webbing as soon as we can find someone stupid enough to take them off our hands, as does Martina, who`s been somehow overlooked

 

[Gardocki]

Pretty good summary overall, although you forgot Holgate who is definitely someone who can become a good player for us. He has ability, and is still very young for a defender.

A change of manager, bring in 4-5 good players, and get rid of 8-9. That'll be a big overhaul and will basically press the re-set button.

 

[Brisan123]

Pretty good summary overall, although you forgot Holgate who is definitely someone who can become a good player for us. He has ability, and is still very young for a defender.

A change of manager, bring in 4-5 good players, and get rid of 8-9. That'll be a big overhaul and will basically press the re-set button.

We need a bare minimum of
LB
CB
AM
CF
That’s allowing that Henry / Lookman can fill the LM role

 

[blueblue]

You forgot Henry and Holgate Beni and probably a few more

I don't know about Beni but I certainly forgot about Holgate and he would be close to the first category.

 

[Nymzee]

Seen this thread about 30 times now.

 

[COYBL25]

Seen this thread about 30 times now.

I suspect you`ll see it many times more too, especially when Allardyce goes and the new fella comes in

 

[nevsonlymate]

Robles is more than fine as no2 if he's ok to wait for opportunities.

Niasse deserves a place in the squad, if we are in multiple cups etc then it makes sense to have backup who can find the net at crucial moments.

If we are going to be brutally honest although he tries he isn't good enough and shouldn't even be considered as a back up/squad player.

 

[Abraders]

If we are going to be brutally honest although he tries he isn't good enough and shouldn't even be considered as a back up/squad player.

If scoring important goals for the team isn't good enough then I don't really know what is.

He is a likeable member of the squad who'd be more than willing to wait for his opportunities, not likely to be on huge wages either.

I just think there is more pressing matters with the squad, especially concerning defence and the midfield (so much dross), before we should be considering moving Niasse on.

 

[Seathestars]

God help him, whoever he is.

 

[nevsonlymate]

If scoring important goals for the team isn't good enough then I don't really know what is.

He is a likeable member of the squad who'd be more than willing to wait for his opportunities, not likely to be on huge wages either.

I just think there is more pressing matters with the squad, especially concerning defence and the midfield (so much dross), before we should be considering moving Niasse on.

The point is the squad is awful and needs a complete overhaul, we need to stop with the tries, has a nice smile so we should keep him crap, we need to get rid of all he bang average players.
We want to see us challenging again but if things are going wrong I don't want to see the likes of Niasse coming on as sub to save us, all down to opinions but fed up with the same clear out list at he end of each season but we still seem to hold on to bang average players.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Retain for next season as potential starting XI regulars:

• Pickford
• Coleman
• Holgate
• Gueye
• Sigurdsson
• Walcott
• Tosun

I think we should look to be subsidising these 7 players with 4 quality additions (LCB, LB, CAM & LM) going into next season. I think that would strike a good balance of injecting some much needed quality into the areas we've been desperate for without changing the whole lot. The CAM in particular needs to be the kind of dynamic, creative ball player who pulls the strings that we've been missing for yonks now.

Retain for next season as backup/rotation players (including to potential new signings):

• Joel
• Baines
• Funes Mori
• Kenny
• Keane
• Davies
• Lookman
• Baningime
• Klaassen
• Vlasic
• Dowell
• Rooney
• Onyekuru
• Calvert-Lewin
• Sandro

If we get the four new players I outlined above then this list of 14 should be sufficient to make up the rest of the first team squad, taking us to 25 players total with the capacity to potentially promote two or three more from the U23's should it be necessary. I think the likes of Klaassen, Keane, Joel & Sandro should be given 6-12 months under the new manager and I reckon Rooney has one more year left in him based on his form this season.

Sell:

• Stekelenburg
• Williams
• Schneiderlin
• Jagielka
• Martina
• Bolasie
• Mirallas
• Niasse
• Garbutt
• Besic
• McCarthy
• Mangala (back to City)
• Galloway
• Pennington

Majority of these you probably wouldn't have many arguments for bar possibly one or two (I do rate Bolasie, Besic & Niasse to do a job but I feel that we should be moving them on in favour of some of the younger players in their positions personally). Schneiderlin would ultimately be the biggest disappointment for me - he clearly has the ability, but he just seems so disinterested now, Mirallas likewise.

All of the younger lids out on loan (Browning, Robinson, Connolly, Charsley, Williams, Mathis etc.) should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis as always, though I'd imagine at least a number of them would end up back in our U23's.