End of season releases .

[big bobs beard]

There's not a chance that any of Osman, Hibbert, Gibson or Pienaar should get a new deal, they were so anonymous last season you could get rid for a start and you wouldn't notice they'd gone. No time for sentimentality with the new owner and manager I hope.

Release McGeady on a free if need be. Someone will give us a million for Kone I'm sure, and if Niasse has any suitors in Russia he can go back for whatever, just get him off the wage bill and remove what is effectively Martinez's lingering fart.

Mattioni and McAleny can both go too.

There's 9 and you'd miss none of them.

This.
Buy 4/5 decent players, promote half a dozen from the youth and the squad will be much healthier. Would rather have Garbutt, Davies , Dowell, Galloway etc more involved than have Piennar, McGeady Kone etc clogging up the bench.

 

[jtl60]

Out the lot of them, I think Gibson showed when he came in for Barry for a few games that he still has something to offer. He's young enough to warrant a 2 year deal of some nature. I love Pienaar but sadly the Pienaar I know doesn't exist anymore.

 

[LydiateLee]

Hopefully Osman does one the SNAKE.

I can't wait to go the match and not have that niggling worry that Oswoman is going to be selected to 'run' around like a snail in treacle getting knocked off the ball by 7 year old ballet dancing girls.

 

[monty]

We need him to have a boss Euros.

Then sell him to absolutely anyone who shows the slightest bit of interest.

Couldn't agree more although I still can't understand how the useless anal passage got into the Irish squad.

 

[Thomasc]

We all know the list!

Hibbert, Gibson, Peinaar and Osman, thank you for your service and good luck in the future.

Then move onto removing the rest of the dead wood, McGeady, McAleny, Kone, Niasse and Garbutt who couldn't even get a game at Fulham.

 

[deipnosophist]

Tony Hibbert is boss, hope he stays at the club in some way.

@fandjango is going to check your meds

 

[fandjango]

@fandjango is going to check your meds

Drop em and bend over

 

[Angle c]

So thats :

Howard 50k
Pienaar 65k
Osman 40k
Hibbert 25k
Gibson 40k
Martinez 67k




Kone 50k
McGeady 65k
Niasse 60k





x52 = £24million in wages potential saving.

@bizzaro

Shouldn't Martinez be taken off there as we did/are paying him off

 

[BiggyRat]

Hibbert & Osman arrive at Finch Farm for 16/17 pre season...

 

[Mountfield1985]

Out the lot of them, I think Gibson showed when he came in for Barry for a few games that he still has something to offer. He's young enough to warrant a 2 year deal of some nature. I love Pienaar but sadly the Pienaar I know doesn't exist anymore.

The way his career has gone is unfortunate because he could have been a fantastic player, but if we are striving for the top then we really need to be binning Gibson off.

He's just not worth a weekly wage to be unavailable for 75% of the season.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Should have binned Gibson off a while back for gross misconduct, although Martinez would never have had the bottle to make that sort of statement. Either way, he's not a serious option for a premiership side even as a squad player.

 

[Nymzee]

I reckon Gibson would make a seriously good lower league CB if he stayed fit.

 

[blue61]

Should have binned Gibson off a while back for gross misconduct, although Martinez would never have had the bottle to make that sort of statement. Either way, he's not a serious option for a premiership side even as a squad player.

Very much this, Utd let him go cheap for a reason. Clear your minds of all the gash 'he could do a job' players, and expect an .improvement to a higher level. I don't think we'll recognise the team in two years.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I reckon Gibson would make a seriously good lower league CB if he stayed fit.

In theory yes, but chronic fitness problems at the level of Gibson's are just a fundamental feature of the player. It's like being one-footed, or weak in the air - it's something that cannot ever really change. Lay on some functioning alcoholism and it's something that categorically won't change.

 

[The Cowboy]

....I'd be surprised if Osman isn't in high demand elsewhere. A final move could be very lucrative and more appealing than a contract extension and little playing time with us. He's a fine footballer who still has something to offer even if that's elsewhere.

Wigan. Makes perfect sense.