Summer clearout

sharkey1001 · February 16, 2015

Major clearout time is needed in the summer. We can get a lot of deadwood off the wage bill

Outs

Distin £55k
Alcarez £30k
Howard £50k, £2m fee (MLS)
Pienaar, £50k, £2m fee (Hull or someone)
Osman, £45k (if he retires with this injury)
Hibbert, £40k, £1m fee
Eto'o £60k (already gone), £1m fee
Atsu - £30k

Over £300k a week on wages we will save!

That is some definite savings and gives Roberto a massive wage budget to bring in some Bosmans.

Added to the fact Lukaku £25-30m and Mirallas £15-20m might also leave, do we trust Roberto to find replacements and improvements? Big Big summer for us!

Tim's tourettes · February 16, 2015

Hibbert 1m fee???!!!

Tramps_mate · February 16, 2015

Are they correct figures?

ijjysmith · February 16, 2015

It's a nice idea but I just can't see it happening.

Howard, Osman and Hibbert on long-ish contracts probably means they aren't going anywhere.

I guess we talk about this a lot. But it never happens.

Righty or wrongly.

formerly manx toffee · February 16, 2015

...we would collapse if we allowed this to happen.

catcherintherye · February 16, 2015

We couldn't or wouldn't lose that many players in one go. I suspect Hibbert will stay.

kenada_blue · February 16, 2015

Lukaku won't leave.

sageyefc · February 16, 2015

Lol

Fifa's not real life homie

Dithering Dougie · February 16, 2015

Rather get some more Bosnians in the summer.

formerly manx toffee · February 16, 2015

Maybe I am too harsh.

I think it is really difficult to embed 6-10 new first team squad players and would need to right off the early part of next season to do so. I can't think that we can afford to do this. In fact Martinez cannot afford to do this given his own personal position.

Dymak · February 16, 2015

sharkey1001 said:
Major clearout time is needed in the summer. We can get a lot of deadwood off the wage bill

Outs

Distin £55k

Alcarez £30k

Howard £50k, £2m fee (MLS)

Pienaar, £50k, £2m fee (Hull or someone)

Osman, £45k (if he retires with this injury)

Hibbert, £40k, £1m fee

Eto'o £60k (already gone), £1m fee

Atsu - £30k

Over £300k a week on wages we will save!

That is some definite savings and gives Roberto a massive wage budget to bring in some Bosmans.

Added to the fact Lukaku £25-30m and Mirallas £15-20m might also leave, do we trust Roberto to find replacements and improvements? Big Big summer for us!

Exactly! 300k a week on absolute dross that offers next to nothing in terms of putting points on the board (which is our uttermost and primary objective). That's the equivalent of four boss 75k a week players, or three absolutely boss 100k a week players.

I believe your figures are slightly inaccurate though, Pienaar is on about 73k per week. Atsu will be on more, whilst Hibbert, Osman and Distin are on slightly less

Alcaraz and Distin are out of contract in June and will definitely be off, so that's an 80k saving. Pienaar, Osman, Gibson and Hibbert are all in contract until June 2016, and they won't be going anywhere because nobody will come close to matching their current wages, so we are left with them for another very expensive season in which they will be costing almost 200k to do nothing.

Chimpy Glassman · February 16, 2015

You've lost the plot a bit here, mate.

Zed Car · February 16, 2015

Tim's tourettes said:
Hibbert 1m fee???!!!

Must be typo. Think he meant £40K fee

CahillsCornerFlag · February 16, 2015

sharkey1001 said:
Major clearout time is needed in the summer. We can get a lot of deadwood off the wage bill

Outs

Distin £55k

Alcarez £30k

Howard £50k, £2m fee (MLS)

Pienaar, £50k, £2m fee (Hull or someone)

Osman, £45k (if he retires with this injury)

Hibbert, £40k, £1m fee

Eto'o £60k (already gone), £1m fee

Atsu - £30k

Over £300k a week on wages we will save!

That is some definite savings and gives Roberto a massive wage budget to bring in some Bosmans.

Added to the fact Lukaku £25-30m and Mirallas £15-20m might also leave, do we trust Roberto to find replacements and improvements? Big Big summer for us!

Can't wait for all of these to go, except Atsu who might turn out to be half decent should he get a game. I think they all will go too, except Hibbert who will stay forever. Add Kev to that in all likelihood (not that I want him to) and McGeady is probably on about £40k p/w, hopefully Celtic offer us £2m for him or something. I'd also add Gibson who is on about £40k p/w too but only because he's a perma crock. Lot of dross there.

Get a few free transfers in, e.g. Cleverley, Reid, Milner, Mulumbu/Noble (incredibly underrated), and our squad looks a hell of a lot stronger.

Not that that will happen, but you get the jist. Garbage OUT, decent squad players who actually offer something IN.