Poyet looking to overhaul squad

Problem is that would leave you with 8 senior players. You need a minimum of 18-20 senior players to survive. If you only kept those 8 then the 12 new faces you brought in simply wouldn't be of the required standard. Even at 5 million per new player (which is a pittance these days) would require a 60 million outlay. Can't see Ellis providing that sort of money for you.

I doubt this will go down well but if you manage to stay up the best solution would be to sign no more than four players this summer for you. Make sure they're the right age, release three or four like Gardner etc and settle for a 14th - 16th place finish next season. Do the same the season after and look for 11th - 13th. By Gus' third full summer transfer window you'd have a squad that won't go down, and is only three of four players away from challenging the top eight but also is very unlikely to finish any lower than 13th even with a bad season.

Another major clear out is the last thing you need IMO. It just results in too many gaps/positions needing to be filled for the budget available and as a result the quality of player brought in is either not good enough or the wrong side of 30 on a big contract. Also due to their age you then need to go through the same thing two years later. It makes it impossible to progress the club, not just your club but any club.

 

Agree, every summer has been a squad rebuilding exercise due to a new manager and look where it has left us...

Sign 2-3 players in Jan and 4-5 in Summer, can build on from that...

However depends where we are in terms of leagues

 

I wasn't clearer fella. I don't mean actively look to sell them, well, some of them, I mean I would listen to offers should bids come in. Don't want too much of an overhaul at once.

 

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Sunderland manager Gus Poyet ready to overhaul squad in January transfer window in pursuit of safety
Uruguayan losing patience with Di Canio's signings and is planning seven new players next month
Sunderland manager Gus Poyet ready to overhaul squad in January transfer window
Changes: Gus Poyet, the Sunderland manager, is threatening to bring in several new faces as the club fight for Premier League survival Photo: GETTY IMAGES
By Luke Edwards11:00PM GMT 09 Dec 2013Comments1 Comment
Sunderland manager Gus Poyet has asked for half a team’s worth of signings in the January transfer window less than six months after the club brought in 14 new players under former manager Paolo Di Canio.
Sunderland are in dire straits at the foot of the Premier League table and will be cut eight points adrift if they lose at West Ham next weekend.
Poyet said: "I am working on signings in January for sure. We always thought there were positions we needed to address and there are plenty of things going on behind the scenes. I hope that will help."
Poyet publicly laid into his players after a dreadful second-half performance in the 2-1 home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur and has run out of patience with many of the squad he inherited from Di Canio.
Although Di Canio, guided by director of football Roberto De Fanti, oversaw a complete overhaul during the summer, few of the new arrivals have looked good enough to succeed in the Premier League.

Significantly, having lost three of their four best players – Simon Mignolet, Stéphane Sessègnon and Danny Rose – from a side who finished fourth from bottom in May, the players brought in to replace them have not been nearly so effective.
The cost in transfer fees, agent fees and wages is huge, but Poyet has urged the club to back him or suffer the consequences of Championship football.
The Uruguayan has made it clear he will have the final say on all deals or he will quit in protest, a clear snub to De Fanti, who many blame for the mess Sunderland are in.
As well as signing so many players who have been unable to hold down a first team place under three different managers this term, De Fanti was also responsible for the appointment of Di Canio, who won only two of his 12 league games at the helm.
Sunderland owner Ellis Short has stuck by his friend De Fanti in the face of criticism, but Sunderland desperately need to pick up some points before the window opens to have a realistic chance of landing players with the quality to drag them out of the relegation zone.
Players are generally reluctant to move to a club in serious relegation trouble and Sunderland need individuals with previous experience of playing in the Premier League rather than those who need time to settle.
As a result, Poyet has changed tack, warning those playing for him at the moment that the performance against Spurs was not good enough for the club to stay in the division or for them to stay in the team. It was a deliberate attempt to crank up the pressure.
“We are playing West Ham, Cardiff, Norwich, when are we going to win three in a row,” said Poyet. “The good run has to be now.
"The idea is to double the points before January, so we have lost another opportunity against Spurs. There is nowhere to hide. There needs to be a moment when that is it, and there are no more excuses or bad luck. That is where we are hiding at the moment.
“On last weekend’s performance we would not get enough points to stay up. If it doesn’t start today, this week, we have got a massive problem. A start means win, because everybody [around us] is winning somehow and we don’t.”