Who gets a reprieve?

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How many players do you think we would be able to sign maximum and have a decent tilt at 6/7th?

Depends on shifting players out. Sigurdsson + Klaassen + Schneiderlin + Bolassie could fetch us about £70M. We could get a 3/4 back in with that.
 
Depends on shifting players out. Sigurdsson + Klaassen + Schneiderlin + Bolassie could fetch us about £70M. We could get a 3/4 back in with that.

Sigurdsson 30mil possibly
Klaassen 12.5mil
Schneiderlin 17.5mil
Bolasie 10 mil

Yeah maybe 70mil...Mori and Keane maybe another 30 to hit 100mil incoming...the other load of players don't have much value aside from wages...maybe 20mil the lot...

So 120mil...

If we punted Baines/Jags that's 5 starters and 5 rotation players needed..

Its a huge amount...

Would need Moshiri to drop in another 100mil on top of it.
 
Non playing staff: The director of communications and Dave Unsworth.

Playing staff: I wouldn't be upset whoever you binned off if the money was right. I'd rather we kept Pickford, Coleman and Walcott. My second level of group of players I'd rather keep but would be ok with going for good money are Siggurdson, Gana, Tosun, Davies, Lookman, Benni, Vlasic and probably DCL. Other than that let 'em go.

I do think our 'senior pros are a big bunch of sh1tehawks though and would love to see a wholesale change in that group with a couple of sound pros but good luck with that.
 
Keepers 4
Pickford
Robles (leaving on a free)
Stekelenburg
Hewelt

Defenders 13

Baines
Keane
Williams (out)
Jagielka
Coleman
Mori (out)
Browning (out)
Galloway
Garbutt (out)
Pennington (out)
Cuco (out)
Holgate
Kenny


Midfielders 9

Schneiderlin (out)
Rooney (out)
McCarthy
Gana
Baningime
Klaassen
Besic
Davies
Grant

Attacking Midfielders 8
Bolasie (out)
Mirallas (out)
Walcott
Sigurdsson
Vlasic
Dowell
Tarashaj (out)
Lookman

Forwards 4
Sandro (gone)
Tosun
Niasse
DCL


My worry last year was that despite everybody’s optimism it would take time to gel. I doubt we have the money or the ability to get transfers over the line to get all the players we need.

As shocking as our defence and attack is we need midfielders who can keep the ball and run and pass forward with the ball.

Minimum should be one left sided defender who can play cb or lb.

Quality box to box midfielder.

Striker.

We need more than that but if we do not get all three of the above we will start the season again with an obvious weakness.

I’d keep Stekelenburg. He’s not any good but I wouldn’t want our lot wasting time seeking an alternative. Get what we desperately need first and anything else is a bonus.
 
Llyrap is absolutely right with this: Get what we desperately need first and anything else is a bonus.

Sign someone who can score 12+ goals a season (I'd like a 25 goal a season man but we can't afford one).

Two midfield players.

A central defender and a left back.

We need a lot more, but let's start with that.

I can't see anyone buying most of our overpaid wasters.
 
Sign someone who can score 12+ goals a season (I'd like a 25 goal a season man but we can't afford one).
We can't afford not to get one.

These can all stay, as well as a few youth team players (Kenny, Dowel, Pennington, DCL) - happy to sell everyone else.
Pickford
Seamus
Holgate
Gana
Schneiderlin (but he's on very thin ice)
Walcott
Sigurdsson
Lookman
Tosun
 
Quite simple really...out of these players who should be given another chance?

Squad total of 38

Keepers 4
Pickford

Robles (leaving on a free)
Stekelenburg
Hewelt

Defenders 13

Baines
Keane
Williams
Jagielka
Coleman
Mori
Browning
Galloway
Garbutt
Pennington
Cuco
Holgate
Kenny



Midfielders 9
Schneiderlin
Rooney
McCarthy
Gana
Baningime
Klaassen
Besic
Davies
Grant

Attacking Midfielders 8
Bolasie
Mirallas
Walcott
Sigurdsson
Vlasic
Dowell
Tarashaj
Lookman

Forwards 4
Sandro
Tosun
Niasse
DCL

I've bolded the ones I'd keep and that leaves me with 15. If McCarthy could ever stay fit I'd keep him but he can't, and I don't mind if Dowell and DCL stay but go out on loan.
 
An entirely ridiculous concept to ditch 20 players. It just isn't going to happen. Most we will move around is about 7.

So the balance of that list will remain at the club. Get them super fit, give them a proper formation, pick best player we have for each position, give them a tactical plan and they'll be much better than this pathetic season.
 
Hard to think who'd I discard this summer: ours is a squad that complements itself to the extent that the total is so much greater than the sum of its parts.
I think it's imperative the club fights tooth and nail to retain all of the current roster.
They've done us proud this season and I'd love to see them tearing up the PL again next year.

NSNO
 
Makes absolutely no sense to get rid of 50% of your playing squad. It simply never works at this level. Especially when you'll have a new manager, DOF, and CEO at the same time. The errors made last summer (or two) can't be undone in one go. So now must begin the slow path to putting it right over two or three years, not a doomed attempt to regain all that lost ground in one summer.

I wouldn't want to put a precise number on how many players in and out -- depends on lots of things -- but it should be closer to 20% than 50% regardless of this season to forget. Absolutely required are a CB, a LB, and a forward-passing CM (with the required physical fitness!).

I still don't think the squad is as bad as people make out. It does need work and a manager who knows what he's doing, but it shouldn't be too much of a push for a manager to get 7th, even without any additions. This season is essentially proof of that.

The problem is that I don't trust Moshiri, the new DOF, Walsh etc. to get it right this summer. The changes don't need to be massive, they just need to be astute. But there's something a bit Leedsy about Everton at the minute and I think this summer will reek of that even more. Hope I'm wrong but I'm not optimistic.
 
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