So I have been looking through the squad to see quite the extent of the rebuild we have and it was quite eye opening! Including the 4 boys out on loan we have 37 players in our squad!! Even at 31 thats half a dozen too many. Of that 35 its as good as guaranteed that 10 of these will be gone (OOC or end of loan). A further 13 of these are players I would say absolutely need to go! Of the remaining 13 there are 8 of those players I would be open to offers for as they are just not good enough for where we want to be, are injury prone or we could cash in on. Taking that aside there are only 6 players I can say I would definitely keep. One of them is our goalie who I think will be gone, one is Sterling who can't stay fit and one is McAusland who should only ever be a squad player!
So yes maybe I need to be more circumspect in terms of players who I would sell if this were football manager and a big bid came in for Butland I'd have a squad of McCrorie, Sterling, Diamonde, Danilo and McAusland
Goalkeepers
- Jack Butland - Keep but will probaby be sold.
- Robby McCrorie - Keep
- Jon McLaughlin - Gone
Defenders
- James Tavernier - Sell!
- Connor Goldson - Sell!
- Ben Davies - Sell!
- John Souttar - Listen to offers
- Leon King - Listen to offers
- Leon Balogun - Likely Gone (should be)
- Ridvan Yilmaz - Listen to offers (injury prone)
- Borna Barisic - Gone
- Dujon Sterling - Keep
- Robbie Fraser - Keep but if not good enough now to replace Borna it says he’s not good enough.
Midfielders
- John Lundstram - Gone
- Ryan Jack - Gone
- Todd Cantwell - Listen to offers
- Nicolas Raskin - Listen to offers
- Mohamed Diomandé - Probably only guarantee to be here
- Kieran Dowell - Sell
- Cole McKinnon - Loan out
- Bailey Rice - Loan out
- Alex Lowry - Sell
- Oscar Cortes - Gone
- Scott Wright - Sell!!
Forwards
- Fábio Silva - Gone
- Cyriel Dessers - Listen to offers
- Tom Lawrence - Sell!!
- Rabbi Matondo - Sell!
- Ross McCausland - Keep (Squad player)
- Zak Lovelace - Gone
- Sima - Gone (because we can’t afford him!)
- Kemar Roofe - Gone
- Danilo - Keep
Loans
- Kieran Wright - Gone
- Sam Lammers - Sell!
- Ianis Hagi - Listen to offers
- Jose Cifuentes - Sell!
*edited to add players forgot about!