jesperjaap
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T|hings are as bad as they seem. We have had two decent seasons in the last seven or eight, one of which was last year, which for me was skewed by other challengers being poor that year for various reasons. We have a squad of 35 players, some of which have been here a long time and have been nowhere near challenging for the title or champions league in any season.We will of course keep most of them - things are never quite as bad as they seem and replacing an entire squad is not financially viable. That being said, I'm struggling to warm to this group of players and largely find myself indifferent to the fates of most of them.
I'd keep Greenwood, probably Sancho and Varane. Bruno will hopefully return to something approaching his normal form when Ronaldo inevitably fecks off this summer.
I think we'll need to replace De Gea if we ever want to be a top side, but he's one of our only decent performers this season, so he can stick around for a bit in my view.
That's probably about it, which is depressing really.
We have one of the best stadiums in the world that has been neglected, one of the biggest net spends over the alst few years and highest wage bills in Europe, yet here we are and the majority of fans are struggling to name a five a side team within our squad of players they really dont want to go....it is that bad
I do think thankfully this summer there will be quite a lot of changes. There will be a new manager, there are likely to be quite a few outgoings as there is quite a high probability several if not all of Bailly, Lingard, Pogba, VDB, Martial, Mata and Cavani actually choose to leave let alone some of our fringe players liek Tuanzabe, Chong, Williams, Pereira and Chong who have come through the youth system. Thats 1/3 of the current squad already before even mentioning other names people would liek to see go.
The only stumbling block with a few coudl be wages elsewhere, but a few are out of contract.
I dont agree on it no tbeing financially viable either if we were shrewd. There are players such as Romagnoli, Kessie, Zakara, Kamara to name but a few that could be free transfers this summer and there are lots of talented younger players in other countries, that shoulodnt cost a fortune.....plus we do have the possibility of filling out players leaving with more prominent squad roles from our youth players such as Hannibal who have barely made a place on the bench.
I genuinly think there are 15/16 players we could move on this summer, make five shrewd signings, only maybe one being a big signing (In cm Rice/Bellingham/DeJong/Tchounamei for example). The overall net spend wouldnt be much at all if we did it cleverly, actually pretty much zero or below taking in the trikking of the squad and wages saved from quantity and a few big earners leaving.....and then we woul dhave a squad of 25 still