Quote Originally Posted by Tutfoster1892 View Post
I'd go with the following for sales:

Dubz
Lascelles
Trippier
Longstaff
Almiron
Wilson...

All either not good enough, too old or injury prone.. I get that some of these players others would keep, but you need to ask yourself which one would get in a current top 6 side?
As mentioned, Lascelles is gonna be with us due to injury. Out of the rest I'd keep Tripz & Longstaff for the 24/25 season.

However, Longstaff's contract is up next summer. So I would be open to moving him on for a fee of £17.5+ million.

Moving Longstaff on would mean we have 6 CMFs. The starting 3, Tonali, Bruno & Joelinton. Anderson, Willock & Miley.

It's enough but we don't have a genuinely defensive minded CMF. If the club wanted to bring in a more specialised DMF, the Longstaff money will assist in that acquisition.

Miggy, Wilson, Dubz all have to go and I really do hope that the club can move them on early in July. Along with Hayden, Lewis & Fraser.

Whilst we do need to maintain a solid group at the core of the squad, there is no room for sentiment in the top level of football. We need to move players on to bring in players who are going to take us to the next level.

Tripz I'd keep for that leadership rolls, contrary to direct comment above. We are bereft of winners in the group.

Tonali has won - Seria A in 21-22 season.
Bruno has won - Coupe de la Ligue 19-20, Olympic gold in 2020 & Copa do Brasil 18-19
Tripz has won - La Liga 20-21 and been to the UCL final with Spurs & the European Championship final with England

We lost to the red filth in the League Cup final due to a lack of experience in finals. We need to have more winners in the mix with our younger highly ambitions and quality younger first teamers. Outside of those 3 we really don't have that profile of player in the squad.

Just a thought.