Who Would You Keep From Our Squad For Next Season?

This will be our squad next year


1. Declan Rudd- Loan over - gone but KM will say that she tried to sign him (reality is that his wages will be to high)
2. Lewis Page- Yes
3. Adam Chicksen - Yes
4. Johnnie Jackson - coach
5. Patrick Bauer - Yes
6. Roger Johnson - Gone
7. Tony Watt- Still here as no one else will touch him
8. Andrew Crofts- Yes
9. Josh Magennis- Sold
11. Ricky Holmes- Yes
12. Stephy Mavididi- Loan over
13. Dillon Phillips - Yes new 1st choice keeper
14. Jordan Botaka - Loan over
15. Ezri Konsa- Sold
16. Jason Pearce-Yes
17. Fredrik Ulvestad- Loan over
18. Karlan Ahearne-Grant- squad player
19. Jake Forster-Caskey- Yes
20. Chris Solly- Yes
21. Nathan Byrne- Loan over
25. Ahmed Kashi- still injured but training in Dubai
26. Harry Lennon - sold
27. Dimitar Mitov - 2nd choice keeper
30. Lee Novak- let go on a free
32. Joe Aribo- sold
35. George Lapslie- Yes
36. Jay Dasilva - loan over
42. Jordan Beeney - squad player
50. Jorge Teixeira - released by mutual consent

Squad looks good on paper just need to find the right mix/ formation and maybe a couple of starters shouldn't be.

Igor Vetokele - stays at St.Truiden
Naby Sarr - After being found wanting in the French 2nd division he will be back
Cristian Ceballos - stays at St.Truiden
Brandon Hanlan - Starting Striker as his wages are cheap
Terell Thomas - squad player
Josh Umerah - Starting Striker as his wages are cheap
Nicky Ajose - sold
Regan Charles-Cook - Starting midfielder as his wages are cheap

If realistically we wanted to win the league then the only xi players good enough are Solly, Tex and Holmes.

A timely thread, given that we’re virtually condemned to another season in L1, but I think it’s less a case of ‘Who Would You Keep’, and more to do with ‘Who will Be Kept’. In no particular order:

Rudd – maybe deserves a crack at a mid-table Championship side and, as likely as not, wouldn’t want to stay anyway. I doubt if Roland would stump up the cash either.

Magennis – I wonder, with NI doing well in their group, if he might think he stands a better chance in the N Irish team if he plays Championship football next season? Anyway, would he really want the thankless task of leading the line again for another long season in L1 with Karl’s 4-2-3-1? I reckon he himself might look to move on. He’s also one of many players included below:

(Magennis), Phillips, Lennon, Kashi, Ricky Holmes, Tony Watt: All have their contracts up at the end of 17/18. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’d have thought it standard practice, with a season left, for a club to either renew the contract or sell in order to recoup some of the cost. Luckily, of course, we have the world’s greatest CEO, and contract negotiations are, apparently, Katy’s forte. Maybe we’ll try to hang on to Josh, Ricky & Phillips? How and to whom they off-load Watt will be interesting.

Contracts up at the end of the season are : RJ, Chicksen, Crofts, JJ, Ulvested, Botaka, Byrne, da Silva, Mavididi and Mitov (the latter with a one year option)… Maybe they’ll try and keep Crofts; JJ as an impact sub/coach (but pretty soon we’ll have more coaches than players); take the option on Mitov to cover Phillips and the rest out. Wouldn't put it past Katy to sign RJ until 2025!!!

That leaves a host of players contracted to 2019: Bauer and Tex (2020) – both the result of Katy’s shrewd negotiations of course; Solly (2020), Pearce, Page, JFC, Aribo, KAG; and the deadweights of Novak, Ajose, Sarr (2020) and Vetokele.

I omitted Konsa from the above – he and Aribo could probably use another season at least to mature before they’re sold on, but Roland’s gonna have to balance the books somehow.

All in all, a pretty grim picture emerges of what lies in store in the summer, and basically it looks like another huge re-build of the squad.

Thanks for the info from @Scoham 's thread: http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/76615/updated-squad-list-1st-february-2017/p1