I have already mentioned who I think we should sell.
What I think will happen though is different.
We will lose all the loans but hopefully retain Hagi. I think we will get rid of Barker and a few others like Jones and probably Docherty ( I would have kept him and used him this season for us).
I think we will keep both full backs even though I would sell Tavernier as I don’t think having our full backs providing most assists is healthy for the rest of the team.
I think though SG will keep him and I hope the rest of his team mates have more of a stomach to succeed than he has.
I do think we will sell a CH and I feel it will probably be Katic unfortunately. I think Goldson is a player like Tavernier who when a game turns nasty and into a fight goes missing and is prone to a blunder.
However he is SG’s favourite and he will keep him.
What concerns me most about SG since he came in has been the lack of resources allocated to midfield. It has mostly be free contracts, loans or cheap signings like Kamara.
Davis has been a great servant but at his age we should be looking to who is replacing. Jack for me falls into the Tav and Goldson category. Excellent players on their day but have won nothing in the game. Another prone to errors and mistakes when we are in a dog fight.
These are three core players for SG and I think they are actually a weakness. We have won nothing under SG and I think that will continue if we keep them.
The rest of our midfield being Aribo, Kamara and Arfield are decent options. Aribo I think has our best assists from our midfield players but so many don’t like him on FF. Kamara has struggled the last few months but has been good the first half of the season. I don’t know if his form has been due to confidence as the form slipped. Arfield is one player I trust from midfield who when we are in a fight might actually be able to do something to get us back in the game.
I do think though that Kamara will be sold though if we get a good offer.
As for up front there is no need to discuss Morelos’s game I think we will defo sell him this summer.
However our wide players or as Beale calls them (number 10s) have been mostly very poor, apart from Stewart who doesn’t get enough game time.
Jones, Aribo and Kent, Ojo and Barker have not been great in these positions.
Kent cost us a fortune but what we have got in return has been woeful. No SPFL assists is a shocking stat.
I would sell him but I don’t think SG will.
That is now 4 core players to SG I think we should sell ( Tav, Goldson, Jack, Kent). I think if they still stay in the starting 11 we will see the same collapse next season.
I think therefore the likes of Ojo, Jones, Docherty, Wes, Barker, Kamara, Katic and Morelos will go.
There is a real lack of quality in our midfield, we seem to think we are Liverpool where they have three deeper playing mids who control the game.
The difference is they have 3 top quality attacker who all score and assist.
We have one who scores, two who do next to nothing and a midfield lacking enough drive and quality in the middle to break teams and not be bullied.
We need stability, but the problem is our current squad is still mostly not good enough and this will be SG’s last chance to sort this.