I touched on this on my post match comments, but I’m curious to see who others would like to keep or move on at the end of the season? I think for me, keep Amos, Morgan, Jayesimi, Inniss, Schwarz and Aneke. Would like to get Millar and Stockley, but think both will have better options at the end of the season
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finish top 6 you can stay
miss out on top 6 on your way
With Sandgaard's five-year plan to reach the Premier League, Jaiyesimi is part of our all-conquering Championship winning squad.
Oh, Jesus!
Likes of Matthews and Purrington as back up, and particularly because we need some stability, we can't bring 20 new players in and hope to be successful.
GK
AMB
Defence
Matthews
Midfield
Strikers
Would then need a keeper, 4 defenders, 1 striker and 2-3 midfielders. Question mark on Gilbey as I simply have not seen enough of him to make a decision but he does have previous pedigree.
8-9 true quality additions to the above and we should be a very decent L1 outfit but they would need to be top class additions as most would be starters.
AMB
Matthews
Famewo
Morgan
Jaiyesimi
Aneke
Try to buy
Stockley
No hope but try
Millar
Amos - look for better, would be happy to keep as 2nd choice
AMB - loan him out ideally to a League 2 side
RB
Gunter - under contract, let go if someone comes in for him otherwise keep as back up
Matthews - out of contract, replace with a first choice long term permanent signing. A quicker more attacking right back as an alternative to Gunter
CB
Inniss - keep as under contract, don’t extend unless he can stay largely injury free.
Famewo - try to loan back if he returns to the team and stays fit.
Oshilaja - release, mid table L1 at best
Pearce - release, as above
LB
Maatsen - ideally replace with a long term permanent signing
Purrington - keep as 2nd choice
DM
Watson - release and replace with a long term permanent signing, a mobile energetic DM with Championship+ potential
Pratley - keep as cover and for his character/experience
CM
Morgan - keep
Shinnie - like him but 32 in the summer, not convinced next season won’t be a year too far. Needs pace, energy and physicality around him
Gilbey - too early to write him off, under contract, will be interesting to see if we do move him on in the summer
JFC - never been fully convinced but yesterday perhaps showed he’s better defensively than Shinnie, probably keep assuming he’s not picked up another bad injury
Smith - impossible to judge
Wingers
Millar - keep but no chance of that unless we go up
Jaiyesimi - keep
New wingers - sign 3 including a Millar replacement, our strikers benefit from good service out wide
Strikers
Aneke - offer new contract
Schwartz - keep, will score goals with good reliable service
Stockley - sign
Washington - would replace with better if we could but probably not realistic
We're also desperate for a top-class CM, despite all our options. A Whiteman or a Fraser, a player who can run games and who we can build for the future around. JFC, Gilbey, Pratley, Shinnie, they just aren't good enough or aren't that kind of player.
Other than that, I agree with all Scoham's choices, except Pratley who I would let go.
Let's keep track of this, shall we?
I will be delighted to be wrong.
AMB
Amos (but not as first choice)
Inniss
Morgan
Jaiyesimi
Pratley
Schwartz
Stockley
Try to extend Millar and Famewo loan
Unsure about Gilbey. I do think there is a player in there.
Purrington
Pearce
Oshilaja
Watson
Morgan
Pratley
Gilbey (Has been awful but part of me thinks there could be a decent player in there, but as it stands get rid)
From the loans I would try to bring back
Shinnie
Stockley
Millar (Think he will be playing Championship football at least next season with or without us.
Famewo (If his injury is going to clear up sometime this century.
Smith (Not sure yet as hardly played)
Maatsen (Lots of promise at start but been poor last few months, when he comes back into the team we can see. Not sure
Would also like a better Keeper then Amos, Amos can be no 2.
Keep the rest.
Happy to be wrong ... but confident that I am not.
I wouldn’t be upset if we got rid of Oshilaja & Gilbey.
Jaiyesimi looks promising so he can stay as well.
JFC is an odd one for me - He's done well for half of this season, but its taken about 3-4 years to see any proper form out of him.
The rest I really won't lose any sleep at all if they go. Can't remember many teams we've had like this where I've felt so little of a connection to the players on our books. Even when we had terrible seasons in the past there was still a Jackson or a Solly who you could hang your hat on as bit of a 'Mr Charlton'.
We only signed him 2 weeks ago on a 3 and a half year deal.
Another one for #deluded
How does that make me deluded?
We could go up in triumph via the playoffs, in which case we'll need Championship players
We could miss out on promotion but finish strongly with positive momentum, in which case we'd want to keep as many of the squad as possible
We could dribble along to 10th or lower playing poorly, in which case we'd want to change things
Keep Akin Famewo, Millar and Stockley if possible and keep the remaining others.
I think with a solid reliable defence this squad gets promoted.