... along with a list of all the other players people on here want us to sign? EDIT - should have followed on from Tickler's post
According to you, we are getting rid of Maclean and possibly Stewart. Brady and King will go back. Simpson will want to go. None of the 'out of contract' players will be offered new deals. The squad is looking a bit thin on the ground.
We're trying to keep King and there's a couple of out of contract players that we might offer new deals to(Garcia and Cullen possibly, along with Mannone if we can pull it off), but I do expect us to lose(or try to lose) about 16 players in the summer.
Richard GarcÃa has been my favourite player ever since I started following the tigers back in 2007. I hope he is offered another year, as he is the perfect example of what a football player should be like.
16 players? **** me! Didn't AP recently say we'll be looking to sign 4-5 players next season? 2 of which must be keepers? So I assume we're resigning from the football league and joining the Goalz 5-a-side league? we'll have no one left!!!
Glad to hear that. I'd suppose it'll be: Harper, Adebola, Kilbane, Atkinson, Brady, Oxley, Basso, Simpson, Devitt, maybe Stewart and/or McLean and hopefully McShane, Oli and Ghilas
Out of contract - Harper, Adebloa, Kilbane, Atkinson, Garcia, Cullen, Basso(possibly Oxley), though a couple of these may get new deals. Returning loans - Gulacsi, Brady, Mannone and King(though we'll try and keep King and possibly Mannone) Others we'll try and shift - Ghilas, Olofinjana, McShane, Simpson, Mclean and possibly Devitt(Stewart may also go to fund incomings). I don't expect we'll lose them all, but I wouldn't be surprised if we lost at least a dozen in the summer.
So that leaves. (And please correct my mistakes) Goalkeepers - Peet, Cracknal Defenders - Roseinor, Chester, Hobbs, Dawson, Bradley, Cooper, Dawson, Dudgeon, East ? Midfield - Evans, Mckenna, Cairney, Emerton Forwards - Fryatt, Koren Surely there is more ?
There's only one Andy Dawson, but pretty much, that's why I've been saying there's 9 or 10 contracts need signing and them saying 4 or 5 signings worried me. (unless the "keeping hold of what we've got" extended to loanees) EDIT: I thought Peet was on an initial 6 month deal as well.
Of the Out of contract Players,, Only re-signing Garcia makes sense. Killer to run the reserves maybe and register him just in case of an emergency. Keep Peet as Oxley is a sick note. The rest can go. ****so thats 6 gone at least**** Of the returning loans this season, Well Gulacsi has gone already but keep the other 3 one way or another. ***so 1 more gone**** Of the ones we shall try to Shift.!! The 3 high earners for obvious reasons plus Simpson. ****so thats 4 more. **** which makes it 11 at the very least. Jamie Devitt could be offered to Grimsby Town for Liam Hearn as an example and why let McLean go ? Will be surprised if any of the main players go actually. But with 11 gone that opens up alot of wages for new players.
We're making no attempt to keep Brady and we're definitely trying to shift Mclean. Two facts I believe I may have mentioned several times previously...
Grimsby want £500k for Hearn. Why would Devitt want to drop into the conference when he's very good at L2. Mclean hasn't scored goals, selling him will generate some money to buy players with. How else are we going to get money? Although we will release over 10 players, most are either young lads or players not on much like Adebola & Harper. Although there is Kilbane who's supposedly on around £13k. It'll free up a little but I would of thought much more than £20k. So we might be able to bring in 3 frees on around £7k.
