Berlin Blade
Large Member
I’m bored. In a hypothetical world where we qualify for Europe this season, what would your ideal (realistic) 25 man squad be? Remember U21 players don’t count in the 25
GK - HENDERSON / Verrips / Dewhurst
RWB - Baldock / BOGLE
RCB - Basham / Retsos
CB - Egan / Jagielka
LCB - O’Connell / Robinson
LWB - Stevens / DASILVA
LCM - Fleck / Freeman
CDM - Norwood / Berge
RCM - Lunny / LALLANA
ST - Mcburnie / Mousset
ST - EZE / DENNIS
23 - Osborn
24 - Sharp
25 - Mcgoldrick
I think that would leave us pretty stacked with at least two players for each position to cover loss in form/injuries/suspensions over 4 competitions.
Henderson - loan, probably 3 million for the year.
Bogle - young right back from Derby, quick, strong, gets forward and young. He would put pressure on Baldock and probably dislodge him in 2 or 3 seasons time. I’d say 4 million upfront, 3 million after 50 games for us and 3 million for 5 England caps.
Da Silva - went to Bristol City from Chelsea last season and I’ve always liked the look of him. Still pretty young and would be similar to Bogle in terms of putting pressure on Stevens with a view to taking his place in a couple of years. 7 million would be good business.
Lallana - he’s out of contract at the end of the year, knows Mcgoldrick from his time at Southampton too. He is completely two footed and while there are question marks over his energy levels being what we need in our RCM role, he would enable us to tweak the system if we wanted to play with two CDM (Berge and Norwood) with him further forward. His wages are crazy at Liverpool but we could offer him 3 years at 70k a week which would equate to around 10 million quid over three years, which is probably around his value in the market.
Eze - everyone knows all about him by now. He would be a brilliant signing for around 17.5 million. They know they can’t keep him and he would probably be well advised to join a club like us to showcase his talents before making a massive money move in 2 or 3 years.
Dennis - I’ve not seen loads of him but know he’s absolutely rapid and is scoring for fun for Brugge including two against Real in the champions league. He wouldn’t personally be on my radar but I know we are heavily linked with him. Seems like a similar player to Mousset. Not sure on the fee, probably around 15 million.
That’s a lot of money spent, but we spent about 40 odd million last summer so I don’t think it’s totally unrealistic.
Outgoing:
Moore
K. Freeman
Rodwell
Morrison
Duffy
Holmes
Clarke
Robinson.
GK - HENDERSON / Verrips / Dewhurst
RWB - Baldock / BOGLE
RCB - Basham / Retsos
CB - Egan / Jagielka
LCB - O’Connell / Robinson
LWB - Stevens / DASILVA
LCM - Fleck / Freeman
CDM - Norwood / Berge
RCM - Lunny / LALLANA
ST - Mcburnie / Mousset
ST - EZE / DENNIS
23 - Osborn
24 - Sharp
25 - Mcgoldrick
I think that would leave us pretty stacked with at least two players for each position to cover loss in form/injuries/suspensions over 4 competitions.
Henderson - loan, probably 3 million for the year.
Bogle - young right back from Derby, quick, strong, gets forward and young. He would put pressure on Baldock and probably dislodge him in 2 or 3 seasons time. I’d say 4 million upfront, 3 million after 50 games for us and 3 million for 5 England caps.
Da Silva - went to Bristol City from Chelsea last season and I’ve always liked the look of him. Still pretty young and would be similar to Bogle in terms of putting pressure on Stevens with a view to taking his place in a couple of years. 7 million would be good business.
Lallana - he’s out of contract at the end of the year, knows Mcgoldrick from his time at Southampton too. He is completely two footed and while there are question marks over his energy levels being what we need in our RCM role, he would enable us to tweak the system if we wanted to play with two CDM (Berge and Norwood) with him further forward. His wages are crazy at Liverpool but we could offer him 3 years at 70k a week which would equate to around 10 million quid over three years, which is probably around his value in the market.
Eze - everyone knows all about him by now. He would be a brilliant signing for around 17.5 million. They know they can’t keep him and he would probably be well advised to join a club like us to showcase his talents before making a massive money move in 2 or 3 years.
Dennis - I’ve not seen loads of him but know he’s absolutely rapid and is scoring for fun for Brugge including two against Real in the champions league. He wouldn’t personally be on my radar but I know we are heavily linked with him. Seems like a similar player to Mousset. Not sure on the fee, probably around 15 million.
That’s a lot of money spent, but we spent about 40 odd million last summer so I don’t think it’s totally unrealistic.
Outgoing:
Moore
K. Freeman
Rodwell
Morrison
Duffy
Holmes
Clarke
Robinson.
