Potential squad for next season

[zablade]

If someone comes along and offers us money for Woolford I suggest the wardens of Broadmoor check their cells.

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

If someone comes along and offers us money for Woolford I suggest the wardens of Broadmoor check their cells.

White van , men with white coats , straight jacket , Adkins at his new club if he ever gets one .

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[alcoblade]

Long
Brayford-Basham-NewCB-NewLB
O'Toole-Reed/Whiteman
Done-CalvertLewin-Adams
Sharp

Jerheeeeesus H fucking Christ on a bike!


You fancing a trip to the fourth division I take it?

That team looks fucking awful and would get obliterated.

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[TONY_TONY_AGANA]

O'Toole is garbage, we had him on loan in '09. Treads concrete.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Or there's these free agents
http://www.skysports.com/share/10287074

 

[Chali 2na]

I'm starting to think Akinde would be a smart signing. I read somewhere that he has a relatively low release clause in his contract too. As you say, 23 in a very average Barnet team, and he's a good athlete. I also see he has 8 assists too which is quite impressive, suggesting he's a provider as well as a scorer. He's at a good age, he's had two very good seasons in a row and will be confident. There's no way he wouldn't at least be a massive improvement on Sammon and also an improvement on Adams alongside Sharp. And with a bit of luck, you could have another 20 goal striker on your hands.

I think him and Sharp would be lethal up top. I know we'd have to pay a fee but when you consider that players like Baxter are leaving (roughly assuming he's on a fair wedge) there will be money spare.

I'd guess that between Cuvelier, Baxter & McEveley were spending about £20kpw on wages: that's £1m a year.

 

[super_pig]

I've been reading through some of the recent threads about the retained list and potential transfers. I've also heard a few people mention that we could assemble a promotion challenging team on free transfers, so below I've used our current players and realistic transfers (All but one being a free transfer) to make up a squad consisting of at least 2 players in each position.

I must stress that i don't think it's realistic that we will release all of our out of contract players, and sign a load more. This is because the term "free" transfer is a little misleading: Out of contract players often expect larger signing on fees due to the club saving on a transfer fee, for this reason I think we'll end up re-signing some of our out of contracts and a limited number of players will come in. Still though, all a bit of fun!

Goalkeepers
George Long (New contract)
Joe Lewis (Out of contract - Cardiff)

Right backs
John Brayford (Still in contract)
Keiron Freeman (Still in contract)

Left backs
David Buchanan (Out of contract - Northampton)
Graham Kelly (Still in contract)

Centre backs
John Egan (Out of contract - Gillingham) *
Curtis Nelson (Out of contract - Plymouth)
Ryan Tafazoli (Out of contract - Mansfield)
David Edgar (Out of contract - Birmingham)

Right wingers
Scott Wagstaff (Out of contract - Bristol City)
Flynn (New contract - Reduced terms)

Left wingers
Anthony Forde (Out of contract - Walsall) *
Graham Carey (Out of contract - Plymouth)

Central Midfielders
Chris Basham (Still in contract)
Louis Reed (Still in contract)
Shaun Williams (Out of contract - Milwall)
Alex Gilbey (Out of contract - Colchester) *
Romaine Sawyers (Out of contract - Wasall)

Forwards
Billy Sharp (Still in contract)
Che Adams (Still in contract)
Matt Done (Still in contract)
John Akinde (Fee req. - Barnet) *

Despite the list being a little ambitious, and unrealistic for reasons stated above, the players marked with * are players I think we should make real efforts to sign: John Egan was in the team f the year, Anthony Forde is a real exciting winger, Alex Gilbey is 21 y/o goal scoring midfielder and John Akinde is a big man up top who's just got 23 for Barnet.

Any suggestions/corrections?

nice work.. you've got more of a clue than adkins i'll give you that

 

[Chali 2na]

nice work.. you've got more of a clue than adkins i'll give you that

I don't like to show off but I have overseen some very successful campaigns on football manager

 

[Booker4]

Comments taken, wasn't meant as anything too serious.
I allowed myself to dream for a while whilst I wrote it up.
You're probably right for what our budget will be.
However, a lot of those players should be perfectly realistic on a budget a club of this size should be working with.

True mate but listening to McCabe he is saying from his interviews that he backed managers (only Clough as far as I'm concerned) too much and now we're reverting to within our means. Either way I think we have enough clout to win this league. At this level we should should still be the highest wage payers, unless a team has a big backer or they have premiership parachute payments like Wigan and Wolves did.