[Archived] IF we stay up....who would you want to keep

[Wild Irish Rover]

What a dumb thread.

Let's divide and demotivate the players so they cannot keep us up as we have created yet another reason for some of them to perform poorly.

Yay, like the players are really motivated at the moment. I talked to Gamst after the Birmingham game and suggested we need more of his signature cracking goals and all he could say in return was, "Say it again, slowly, in Norwegian..." FFS!

Santa Cruz, motivated? My arse!

Something is so rotten at this club..

[m1st]

I'd keep most of the youth, including Linganzi, Doran, Gunning, Fielding, Blackman, Lowe and Alley.

As to the loanees, I would part with M. Diouf and RSC. I would try to keep J. Jones.

As to the regular first team, I think we should keep the following:

Keepers: Robbo, Bunn

Backs: Salgado & Nelson (both as a transition into coaching year), Samba, Hanley, P. Jones., J. Morris,

Mid: Hoillett, Olsson, N'Zonzi.

Forwards: Kalinic, Rochina.

I think the above would form strong core for a very good squad. We would need 1 RB, 1 LB, about 5 mids, and 2 forwards to round out the squad. If we focused on quality, we're about 60 million away from having a top 8 club. Less if we had Hughes and his eye for inexpensive talent.

To make room on the wage bill, and to get rid of the slackers, emotional basket cases, over the hill, and/or unlucky, we need to show the following the door: Givet, Emerton, MGP, Dunn, Grella, Andrews, Benjani, Roberts, Goulon, EHD, Zurab, Brown and Rigters.

A big question mark next to Formica's name.

Fwiw, I like [= "agree with"] these lists.

Some of the players on the "Exit door" list [Zurab; Rigters] will surely be at the end of their contracts in June; but, if the worst happens [and I'm still a "glass-half-full" man] and there are players we don't want to keep and no other club wants to take them off our hands, do we do what WHam did with Benni and buy out their contracts? That would make a dint in next season's parachute payment.