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Getting rid of dead wood

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redhorizon2

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We don't need a huge squad next season, and with least 3 more players adding to wage bill, we need to look at who goes. Also can we get rid of them ( as future clubs may not want to pay the exorbitant wages we've paid) with out having to pay the player off?
Balotelli sticks to mind, lower league Italian clubs want him but probably want us to pay for half his wages.
Alberto, supposedly had a great season have we had any offers for him?
 
Lucas
Skrtel
Mignolet
Benteke
Allen (I disagree somewhat with this one, but it looks like his time is done)
Markovic
Alberto
Bogdan
Balotelli
Wisdom
Ilori
Ibe

That's at least 50 mil I reckon, being conservative.

Bring in:

The best wide forward / winger we can get
Competition at Left back
The best DM we can get
A decent back up keeper

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Lucas
Skrtel
Mignolet
Benteke
Allen (I disagree somewhat with this one, but it looks like his time is done)
Markovic
Alberto
Bogdan
Balotelli
Wisdom
Ilori
Ibe

That's at least 50 mil I reckon, being conservative.

Bring in:

The best wide forward / winger we can get
Competition at Left back
The best DM we can get
A decent back up keeper

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We've bought a keeper already
 
I'd wait until we see what the triple training sessions produce in terms of injuries. We don't want to get too carried away pruning the squad only to find in September that we've got a similar injury crisis as last season.

Aside from Sktrtel, I'd be especially cautious of getting rid of defenders at this stage because we've got several young and largely untested (in this league) players. Moreno can just feck right off though.

I'd choose these for now:

Bogdan
Illori
Skrtel
Moreno
Wisdom
Balotelli

As for the young reserves, it's intriguing, we seem to be keeping a lot of the dead wood merely to make up the numbers, while shipping out some decent prospects, such as Rossiter, Trickett-Smith, Cleary and of course YESIL!
 
Lucas
Skrtel
Mignolet
Benteke
Allen (I disagree somewhat with this one, but it looks like his time is done)
Markovic
Alberto
Bogdan
Balotelli
Wisdom
Ilori
Ibe

That's at least 50 mil I reckon, being conservative.

Bring in:

The best wide forward / winger we can get
Competition at Left back
The best DM we can get
A decent back up keeper

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We've got Mignolet, Karius and Ward. Why would we need another back up keeper?
 
Lucas
Skrtel
Mignolet
Benteke
Allen (I disagree somewhat with this one, but it looks like his time is done)
Markovic
Alberto
Bogdan
Balotelli
Wisdom
Ilori
Ibe

That's at least 50 mil I reckon, being conservative.

Bring in:

The best wide forward / winger we can get
Competition at Left back
The best DM we can get
A decent back up keeper

Sorted
Roughly £125m worth of players going for £50m, so thats £75m plus wages down the pan?
 
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