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The problem for me is having ageing players on big contracts. Once they stop being first choice players you end up with two option either paying huge amounts of wages to players who don't really contribute or giving them payoffs to leave because they wont get those kind of wages anywhere else.

Whilst it's true that we have a fine crop of young players what we don't have is many real top players in the 24-27 age bracket. The age that the likes of Fellaini, Barkley and Lukaku were when we sold them for big money. So we face the real possibility of our older players going over the hill before the crop of youngsters are quite ready.

Whilst we are able to keep funding a decent transfer spend that might be okay but what happens during the period when we are investing in the new Stadium but not getting any returns. Look at Arsenal and how they funded the Emirates by qualifying for the CL year in year out and crucially by making profits from player trading.

If you want to make money trading players and funding your improvement then you need to buy players in their early twenties and offload them when their value is at it's peak the way Spurs did with Bale, the way the RS did with Suarez and Coutinho or the way we did with Lukaku, Stones and Fellaini.

We have stopped doing that and have bought far too many players when their value was at their highest and we now have no potential for selling on those players to recoup fees that can regenerate our squad. As they say you can only sell the family silver once and we have sold ours in the form of Lukaku and Stones for £125m and spent it very poorly.
 
yakublue said:
It just tells us that their performances are probably going to tale off over the next few seasons and that they might start picking up more injuries.

Look at Baines, his form dropped significantly around when he hit 30 and he's had a load of injuries over the last few years.

It's just not ideal to be building your team around a load of players who are exiting their prime and who are on huge salaries.
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It’s not a problem if we have players who can come in and fill the void when they do dip/get injured.

The Baines situation is the perfect example of not nurturing/buying a replacement in time
 

Titus Bramble said:
It’s not a problem if we have players who can come in and fill the void when they do dip/get injured.

The Baines situation is the perfect example of not nurturing/buying a replacement in time
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Obviously that's true but there's much less risk in buying players on an upward trajectory than a downward one. If/when all these players dip or get injured we have to have decent replacements ready to go. Given that our resources are not limitless it just doesn't seem like good strategy. It's short term thinking.
 
chazzle_dazzle said:
Sam says we have too many younger players in the squad.... he wants all the OAPs.

He doesn't like the younguns, they are too youthful and attractive.

And dont like gravy
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He's only here two seasons max so he doesn't care about our future. Steve Walsh is the man to blame for this hotchpotch and aging squad with a huge gap between potential players and established/aging players and very few in their prime. Another charge on Walsh who failed to get us a first team striker and left back cover this summer.
 

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Sir Alan said:
Walcott 29 in March
Rooney 33 this year
Jagielka 36 this year
Williams 34 this year
Sigurðsson 29 this year
Bolasie 29 this year
Schneiderlin 29 this year
Baines 34 this year
Coleman 30 this year
Gueye 29 this year
Martina 29 this year

If you’re not worried by this then well am done.
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I am older than some of these players. Where's my pipe and slippers?
 

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