Might become like Glen Hysen for us back in the 90’s - first season brilliant then declined badly in his second season?
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With Bradley and Ramsey possibly fighting out the right back spot it does open the question about the future plans for Matip and Gomez. The latter gets quite a bit of game time at RB which may not be there much longer.
At 21 I’d be a bit skeptical about writing him off seen this with Morton and Bradley, the former seems to be motm every game for Blackburn.
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After tonight. Everyone.
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This thread might have to become more active if we don’t get European football for next season.
With the number of senior players we have and will still have with a few to leave on a free.
Perhaps not who do you wish to sell, but who can we sell.
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Unfortunately we’ve missed the boat on selling a lot of players. Not just the likes of Phillips, but we could presumably have made a good bit of money selling Fabinho and Gomez before anyone else realised they were finished, it’s not like their performances should be a total surprise to us.
Just a load of deadweight at the club now, good luck to the incoming director of football.
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Alisson, Kelleher, van Dijk, Konate, Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Tsimikas, Thiago, Salah, Diaz, Nunez, Jota, Gakpo. Would certainly keep.
Kelleher is fine as a number two. Gakpo is a wait and see whether he’ll be good enough. Don’t have an issue with Firmino extending for another season but he’ll likely want more than that.
We have some young players as well. Not exactly at the required level but will get better. Elliott, Ramsay, Doak, Bajcetic for example.
The rest by and large outside the above are susceptible. There’s a number of players we won’t sell, one because you need a squad and second some serve a purpose. Henderson for example.
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Harsh…Ali’s still got a few years at least in him.
All of those I would certainly keep.
Ah, makes sense now.
You had me scared for a second there .8
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Given the way things ate going, I’d be tempted to se this as who would you like to stay.
If someone like PSG make a bid for Mo, I would accept. I know it won’t be as huge a fee as earlier, but it would still be a tidy sum. The attack is being refreshed and I would let a new thing emerge with a Mo replacement. Maybe Kudus fits the bill, or someone of that sort of profile - good now, but still up and coming. This would leave us with Diaz, Nunez, Kudus, Jota, Gakpo and Carvalho, Doak, and Elliott if we go to 4231 as he looks a player for that three.
Mo knows where the net is and he has scored loads for us, and if he stays he will score many more goals. But he is one of our sellable players, and we would get a decent fee, and the high wages could be invested into others. And depending on the replacement, if there was money left over it could go towards other parts of the team.
Assuming we don’t get new owners, and assuming we continue to operate to similar constraints we’ve seen.
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Feels like 2011 and Torres all over again.
Let’s sell our most potent forward, throw him like a piece of meat to the only club that could afford him all because our petty owners can’t do a simple job of backing the club.
I’d rather have new owners who will come in, spend a good sum on the midfield as a first priority, and keep Mo. That would be my preference.
But apart from something like that happening, then based on the resources we can raise through player sales, and the current resources being spent on salaries, Mo would not be untouchable for me.
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I’m not having a a go at you here RedOver but this in sense explains the fickle of football fans. You wouldn’t find 1 fan who was upset with the news on Salah signing a new deal…6 months down the line and the teams playing like shit all of sudden every man and his dog want to use his 350k a week “absurdity” against him.
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At the moment I’m not seeing Mo giving us value for his bumper new deal. He looks slower than he was, and he is getting brushed off the ball way too easily.
I’m not having a go at you either, AllMightyReds, but the sort of thinking where we back aging and underperforming players leads to the midfield we have today.
My preference is new owners who can invest properly into the team, starting with an engine room rebuild. I would definitely rather keep Mo in the circumstances. He is, currently, our most potent striker.
But failing that sort of change happening, Mo does not look untouchable to me.
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There is No Fear factor within that squad anymore… No Fear of being dropped for having a stinker time after time… No Fear of being sold because loss of form is diagnosed as exactly that instead of terminal decline… No Fear of playing out a career without winning medals because that box has been ticked for most of the squad… No Fear that a complete ruthless re-build upheaval is on the horizon and will make them surplus to requirements…
Time has come for some type of surgery now instead of slapping a plaster on top of the last plaster…
Root and branch review against every individual highly paid entitled player in the squad to look for the slightest adjustments that can be made towards improving their situation as an individual to benefit the squad…
As harsh and unsavoury as it sounds… Sometimes a hostage gets shot to bring about achieving the demands…
Having players possibly ‘moping’ around in the background not contributing in any sure-fire way surely cannot be good for the overall morale and well being of the status quo… Just hope some are not taking a leaf out of the Ronald Macdonald journal of prolonging a career by taking their foot of the gas earlier in their career and ‘freewheeling’ for much of the time…
If owners can make ten-fold return on their investment, then fair enough let Jurgen fight the contract corner of the guys who have made that increased return possible… When Jurgen says we need to take more of a risk - I personally think he didn’t go in to bat for Gini at the time but has rectified that since with Jordan etc.
Holding onto these guys is great for them, but only as long as it doesn’t hinder continuous progress or strangle our ability to remain challenging on all fronts each season… I hope this Brighton defeat and the manner it occurred brings about some kind of watershed moment… PL is a fast paced mixed bag of incidents every match day… Last thing I want to witness this season is LFC getting torn to bits in Europe as well
COYR
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the only FEAR in this team, is the look in their eyes everytime they step on the pitch
The only fear is Darwin Nunez
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