Building a new team.

[Yarrgh]

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.

Reasonable list that. I don't expect that many to go mind as quite a few are probably unsaleable due to age/ condition/ overinflated salary unless Everton are really committed to getting shut of them.

Ramirez I can see going as well unless he fancies the new manager.

 

[Eggs]

..perhaps your putting the cart before the horse. I wouldn’t particularly look at the players we’ve got in respect of building a new team, i’d be looking to define a playing strategy and then build the team over a number of windows to fit. Decide how we want to play first, not what players we want to keep.

Players need to dovetail into the playing strategy and blend with each other in a complimentary manner. The lack of strategy and purposeful direction means you simply buy footballers with no end game in mind. It means you end up with a unbalanced and disjointed squad, which is exactly what we have.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

..perhaps your putting the cart before the horse. I wouldn’t particularly look at the players we’ve got in respect of building a new team, i’d be looking to define a playing strategy and then build the team over a number of windows to fit. Decide how we want to play first, not what players we want to keep.

Players need to dovetail into the playing strategy and blend with each other in a complimentary manner. The lack of strategy and purposeful direction means you simply buy footballers with no end game in mind. It means you end up with a unbalanced and disjointed squad, which is exactly what we have.

Ultimately I agree with this. It's down to Moshiri to get his new manager sorted and then get him to run his rule over the current crop first.

I'm just praying that it's a good appointment.

 

[nsno-chris]

If Steve Walsh is involved in building or rebuilding anything we’re doomed

 

[Saint Domingo]

I’d honestly build from the young players. Let them have leadership roles on the team. Unlike some of their peers they’ve actually performed well for Everton and know the winning feeling from youth level.

Pickford Coleman Holgate Funes Mori Davies Beni Dowell Lookman Onyekeru Vlasic Walcott Tosun. I’d also bring Besic back as I think his exile was scandalous when you see what Gueye and Schneiderlin have done this season. I’d axe the rest.

 

[blueblue]

..perhaps your putting the cart before the horse. I wouldn’t particularly look at the players we’ve got in respect of building a new team, i’d be looking to define a playing strategy and then build the team over a number of windows to fit. Decide how we want to play first, not what players we want to keep.

Players need to dovetail into the playing strategy and blend with each other in a complimentary manner. The lack of strategy and purposeful direction means you simply buy footballers with no end game in mind. It means you end up with a unbalanced and disjointed squad, which is exactly what we have.

The problem would be the funding. I think to do as you suggest might mean signing practically an entire team and that would bring it's own problems. I think we are back to basics from a team building point of view and it will take a new manager three or four windows to get to where he wants to go.

 

[deipnosophist]

I think circumstance will dictate action/activity re squad ‘cull’. Given that I consider us the worst team in the PL, and that we are going to be relegated, I reckon those circumstances are going to elucit upheaval-like change.

 

[JLW]

..perhaps your putting the cart before the horse. I wouldn’t particularly look at the players we’ve got in respect of building a new team, i’d be looking to define a playing strategy and then build the team over a number of windows to fit. Decide how we want to play first, not what players we want to keep.

Players need to dovetail into the playing strategy and blend with each other in a complimentary manner. The lack of strategy and purposeful direction means you simply buy footballers with no end game in mind. It means you end up with a unbalanced and disjointed squad, which is exactly what we have.

Spot on mate!

 

[chippy1722]

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

I heard Beni was very highly rated within the club, more so than Davies and Kenny. Not sure why he’s dissapeared from the scene tho.

 

[Eggs]

The problem would be the funding. I think to do as you suggest might mean signing practically an entire team and that would bring it's own problems. I think we are back to basics from a team building point of view and it will take a new manager three or four windows to get to where he wants to go.

...possibly longer, but a good manager will get the team organised and the fans won’t mind as long as they can see progression and light at the end of the tunnel. At the moment we’re going nowhere.