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[Albion] Summer clear out
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Good post, I am particularly enjoying rereading the post as you remember how many players we have and adding them to your list. Players I too had also forgot we had. For example, Alzate.
AZ Gull
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So, out of interest ..... which clubs do you think will be knocking down Albion's door, demanding to buy players (and pay them more than they are on at Albion) that are now generally deemed not good enough for Albion?
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Lists also include loans, mutual agreements to terminate contracts to aid leaving on a free transfer. Any departure that means the mentioned players are not part of the 2024/25 first team squad in August. Also worth mentioning dead wood for a mid table Premier League can be world beaters at championship clubs or clubs across Europe.
macbeth
Dismembered
the club obviously didn’t mind the magic player tree when it was the £150M spine of our team getting ripped out, so i can’t see why it would be an issue when it comes to moving on players who are evidently past it/not good enough
Doesn't Alzate just leave for free when his contract expires the Summer?!
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Other than the obvious ones like Milner I’ll be honest I don’t know the contract situations of most our players without looking it up
The market will decide. Set the transfer fee for Webster, Lamptey etc at a level where that attracts interest and have a discussion that they’re not likely to feature.
That’s how clubs have operated since transfers have been around. Footballer autobios explain just that, how they reluctantly were moved on.
Who’d be interested in Lamptey and Webster? Bottom half PL clubs wanting in those positions, overseas clubs, Championship clubs with parachute money.
Webster to Pompey. Big Chichester signing.
He fell over.
How much do you think a newly promoted from League One club are paying in wages ? Not a chance he goes back to Portsmouth
London Irish
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Numpty keeper who got us to 6th, a celebration that if it was in my power to take away from an ingrate like you, I wouldYou are a strange poster happy to defend a numpty keeper and then slag of the board
Nail on head!
Some people seem to think we can just put player X in the shop window, tell Fabrizio that Chelsea, West Ham and some random foreign club are interested and that Brighton's asking price is £12M and the job's a good 'un. You know, like what it is on Football Manager!
What on earth is Gilmour doing on that list…
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
You must be forgetting the games Sanchez played in then which is convenient I suppose. Resulting to personal insults to make a point is never a good look.
Omitting a dozen other PL clubs, overseas clubs and Championship clubs with money. Perhaps the club would seek a modest fee to clear a squad player who’s not impressing.
But it’s a protracted process.
I think he’s incredibly average and over rated. A weak link in the side. I know that’s not a popular opinion with some fans as he’s a busy player who plays a lot of safe, un-productive passes so some think he’s better than he really is. He offers nothing productive from an attacking point of view and absolutely nothing defensively. Physically weak and no pace. We can do a lot better.
The 'numpty keeper' did, of course, only play for a little over a third of the matches that got us to 6th. The other 23 matches, we had a different GK between the sticks. Mustn't mention that, though - bad fan!
London Irish
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I think there is a general under-estimation of the size of squad you need to be competitive in this murderous league. Injuries are way more commonplace now. Players when they recover from injuries aren’t at their peak - see Enciso and Estupian. I’m not saying don’t move some players on but if we don’t want a season’s collapse again that we are currently witnessing, we need a big squad