The simple truth is we still have a large squad, despite so many players leaving out of contract and that the quality of the squad is thread bare in areas and top heavy in others.
I still think the squad needs trimming numbers wise and also to raise funds.
Deadwood def out: Henderson, Bailly, Jones, Telles, Tuanzabe, Williams, VDB plus ALL of our loan signings, none are worth keeping. Henderson and VDB should kbring in decent money, just get the rest of the books.
Then there are a few players been here a while now, never been good enough consistently Maguire, Dalot and McTominay. I also add Martial to that, despite the talent there are the injuries but even forgetting that, he has been here now for EIGHT seasons, how many as he really contributed to, a couple maybe?
TBH there are a few others I would like to see gone, but I think that is a lot for one window....BUT
We have Sancho, Rashford, Elanga, Garnacho all for the left and Amad, Pellestri, Antony and lets not forget Greenwood possibly, eight players for two spots....at least two of those should go and for me its ELanga and hate to say it, but Sancho.
IF we can shift most of those, I dont want to mention figures as always shot down....but thats a lot of money, and we need to raise it to change this squad.
I would like to see:
1: A quality young keeper - I would like to see DeGea offered a short term contact on reduced wages....otherwise we need two keepers, one maybe a loan and no guarantee a new keeper settles in, thats why I would liek to keep DeGea short term to battle it out
2: A right back - Despite the limitations, I liek Bissaka, but again he should be battling it out or a number two. We need a quality ATTACKING right back, Dalot simply isnt that. Livaramento I like dbefore the injury, Gusto sadly goign to CHelsea, Vanderson looks a huge talent and I see Frimpong mentioned a lot but barely seen him, but there are a few about for sure.
3: Varane misses too many games and the back ups are simply notgodo enough. We definately need one, maybe two young centre backs. Kim Man Jae, Bella Kotchap, Lukeba are names that spring to mind, few are left sided though, when its the right we need
One thing people mention is a back up for Casemeiro, personally I think we already have him in Mainoo and I would like to see him more involved next season, for me we do though need:
4: A box to box midfielder who is defensively sound, full of energy and good going forward too, a real all rounder. Eriksen doesnt have the legs to play deeper for me, Fred only suits certain situations, Fernandes has looked good deeper recently, in that respect an all rounder also helps as they can cover Casemeiro, play where Eriksen does and even play where Fernandes was further forward...in the same came interchanging. There are obvious names like Rice and Bellingham but I am not sure either come or are deasible with the fees but the likes of Caqueret and Thuram do, really like both of them.
I think the number 10 is one to be monitored, especially if Fernandes plays deeper but I think Eriksen and Fernandes can play there, the possible all rounder, Fred has looked better further forward and I still have high hopes for Hannibal and there is also Iqbal. I also think in totally different ays Pellestri and AMad could suit the role, so I wouldnt buy someone to play there.
5 and 6: We need TWO strikers this summer. We need a big signing Kane, Omishen, Vlahovic...someone of that ilk. Still not 100% on any of them for different reasons with the fees, but I dont know who else really. Not seen Hoijlund or the guy at Red Bull, but a top young striker for a rasonable fee as well. With our SOuth AMerican contingent, maybe a another oen up front. There seem to be some really talented young Brazilian strikers at the moment, I think we need to take that kind of gamble for the second choice.
For me it feels like the same old story of the last decade though, really we need 6-8 in and 10-15 out. I know its not FM and its one window, but we really need to do more in and out than we have done the alst decade or we continue the cycle too slowly.
It needs to be ruthless outwards and it needs to be more in, we are always a couple of signing short each summer. For me this summer actually needs a spend of £3-400m which sounds ridiculous and impossible....but we can recoup a pretty large proportion of that selling correctly.
New Keeper
Vanderson Varane Martinez Shaw
Casemeiro
Fernandes Thuram
Antony Rashford
Omishen
Squad
DeGea
Bissaka
Kotchap
Man Jae
Malacia
Mainoo
Fred
Hannibal
Garnacho
Eriksen
Pellestri
Vitor Roque
Something like that, young hungry players within the squad with genuine talent and a quality frist eleven and experience
