At which other so-called giant would there not be a mass clearout for what has gone on this season?

Jacob said:
Every single player in the squad has a 50 percent higher salary than they should have

Jones, Mata, Bailly, Hendo, Lingard, Matic, Cavani... all close to or higher than 100k per week. They've barely been used this season.
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Absolutely right and I'm sorry to say this is likely to be why I cannot see us selling ANYONE for a few years. The wages absolutely make it impossible to move these players on. Another bright idea from the folks above extending contracts purely to "preserve their value". Can anyone point towards a case where this has worked?

We were lucky with Lukaku that we managed to get pretty much all of the money back but outside of that I believe in the next 2 to 3 years we will see the majority of our players just running down the contracts, taking the 150-200k a week for laughs and leaving for free. Absolute joke of a situation.
 
People expecting a massive squad overhaul in a short space of time will be disappointed. It's going to take around 3-years to really sort this squad out imo. Quite a few will leave this summer, but it will mostly be the out-of-contract players. I think we'll gradually ship out others who aren't up to standard over the following 2 summer windows.
 
A better question might be which top sides have ever had the sort of mass turnover we seem to have guaranteed this summer with so many players out of contract or actively wanting to leave?

Because rather than being too reluctant to make change, we currently look like having large scale change forced upon us whether we want it or not.

Bayern may have had large-scale turnover at one point? Beyond that I can't think of any comparisons.
 
I honestly don’t think it’s that bad when you take away the emotion. 1st goal for ETH is simply to get back into the top 4, I think that is very realistic as long as he gets a transfer budget similar previous summers. It’s not about signing loads of players and suddenly being amazing, it’s one step at a time.

Lots of the bad eggs and overrated players are gone this summer, the rest will be phased out by next summer. I’m just looking forward to seeing a hands on coach who isn’t in his mid sixties working with a full coaching team.
 
sunama said:
Some good points.
But I don't believe players like Maguire, Rashford, Scot Mct, Fred, etc will be sold. We'll hang onto these deadwood players and probably extend their contracts with big wages.
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Rashfords in the last year of his deal. If he's going to go it will be in the summer, and he's looked checked out mentally for months.

As to McTominay, Fred etc, well, personally I'd argue that whoever replaces Matic and Pogba will shunt them into squad player status. And that's fine, but we do need to replace those players. Failing to replace Herrera was absolutely criminal given the state of our midfield.
 
The owners won't clear themselves out of course but

New ceo came in part way through season

New manager and coaching staff

Probably 8 players out (33% of squad)

That is a pretty major clear out isn't it
 
There's not many giant clubs that have actually had a season like this.
 
Robbie Boy said:
People expecting a massive squad overhaul in a short space of time will be disappointed. It's going to take around 3-years to really sort this squad out imo. Quite a few will leave this summer, but it will mostly be the out-of-contract players. I think we'll gradually ship out others who aren't up to standard over the following 2 summer windows.
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The club pretty much has to sign like 6 players this summer just to replace the warm bodies who are leaving. Some of the ones we sign might not be from the upper half of the price range, otherwise we'd have to spend 3-400m, but an overhaul is pretty much happening whether we like it or not. It will take a few years to actually build a new squad, though.
 
Fortitude said:
By giant, we're talking the usual suspects where not winning the league, or at least a trophy would lead to sackings, investigations and purging, if needs be.

Perhaps this could go in the football forum, but I'm curious, if anyone knows: what was the fallout from the aforementioned clubs for their worst season in recent history? No hysteria, just what came from absolute failure for each of them?

Also, I'm curious: as United fans, why would you willingly accept second chances for the vast majority of these players? I've never thought 'You're not fit to wear the shirt' has ever been more appropriately sung. So what should the club, as an institution, do about this?
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Probably Liverpool… they’d sack the manager, maybe not Klopp if he finished 8th once because he has the credit to deserve the chance to turn it around, but there wouldn’t be a huge purge. Everything will get done over 2-4 seasons, like when Klopp arrived.

We’re only going to see a purge because so many are out of contract. If they weren’t. Then I doubt, we’d see more than 2-3 out.
 
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