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Just seen someone raise this on twitter in terms of how big our squad is and how many of them are actually good enough or should need moving on.

Not counting the new professionals and kids, frighteningly I only counted 8 who I would defiantly not want to lose and given two of them are loan players that is deeply concerning.

I have deliberately not picked on individual players but looking at this across the board.

How Peter and Trevor Hemmings can continue to push this line that the squad is good enough is probably what is concerning me the most. We simply can not go into the next four months of matches without improving the quality of our first team.

What numbers could you get up to?

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Transfer Window Overview - Summer 2021

CURRENT SQUAD GK: Oliver Lombard* (Contracted to June 2022 + 1Yr option) GK: Matthew Hudson (Contracted to June 2022) GK: Connor Ripley (Contracted to June 2022) GK: Daniel Iverson (Season Loan) GK: Declan Rudd (Contracted to June 2023) DF: Lewis Coulton* (Contracted to June 2022 + 1Yr option)...
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There are none I definitely wouldn't want to lose, i'd happily sell any of them.

Evans, Barkhuizen & DJ probably the ones who i'd build a team around.
 
Rudd, GC, Olusunde (on the basis of he could be good/we haven't seen him), Leigh, DJ, Browne, Whiteman, Barky, Evans

9.
 
8, 2 of them are keepers.

Rudd
Iversen
Sinclair
DJ
Sepp
Barky
Riis
Bauer

The rest I wouldn't bat an eyelid if they were binned tomorrow.

I'd keep Hunts around too actually, because he's an OG.
 
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There is literally only one player who I think will probably have a career in the top division at some point and that’s Iversen. Other than that the squad has enough average players not to be stranded at the bottom of the table but that’s all.
 
TBH "definitely wouldn't want to lose" is a high bar and after the loss of Pearson and Davies I'd probably only count Iversen as being of demonstrably higher standard.

There's a couple of others who I'd hope would get there (Riis, Whiteman, both of whom I don't think we've seen the best of yet) and a couple more who have shown signs of getting close to that previously, probably won't but can still play at this level (Browne, Johnson) but I doubt I'd be too gutted if we lost any one of them although losing the lot would be fairly serious.

We have to hope that a few step up to be counted or its going to be a long winter.
 
2 I would keep, but it wont be a popular choice.

Other than Iverson as well (not ours) id sell the lot/pay up the contracts. The lot of them have proved they aren’t good enough now for a promotion push.

So in the 25 man squad, I genuinely think we need 23 new players.
 
simo said:
TBH "definitely wouldn't want to lose" is a high bar and after the loss of Pearson and Davies I'd probably only count Iversen as being of demonstrably higher standard.
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I am being very generous in the terms that we clearly can't get rid of everyone so more players who I think can cut it or will cut it at this level.
 
I think it says a lot that the only members of the squad I wouldn’t want to lose are the loanees (who we’ll lose anyway) and the youth players. And probably Barky cos I have no confidence the club will bring in a player anywhere close to his quality
 
Double J said:
2 I would keep, but it wont be a popular choice.

Other than Iverson as well (not ours) id sell the lot/pay up the contracts. The lot of them have proved they aren’t good enough now for a promotion push.

So in the 25 man squad, I genuinely think we need 23 new players.
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Who are the two?
 
Double J said:
2 I would keep, but it wont be a popular choice.

Other than Iverson as well (not ours) id sell the lot/pay up the contracts. The lot of them have proved they aren’t good enough now for a promotion push.

So in the 25 man squad, I genuinely think we need 23 new players.
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......and who would the 23players be, just name the first 11, then total it up approximately!
 
And there lies the problem. We've allowed the squad quality to be diluted over the years. We've kept faith with players who have either underperformed or just are not good enough. Once upon a time we signed the likes of Pearson and Robinson who then had good sell on value. We now sign mediocre players with little sell on value. The end result is an erosion of quality on the pitch.
 
JK said:
Just seen someone raise this on twitter in terms of how big our squad is and how many of them are actually good enough or should need moving on.

Not counting the new professionals and kids, frighteningly I only counted 8 who I would defiantly not want to lose and given two of them are loan players that is deeply concerning.

I have deliberately not picked on individual players but looking at this across the board.

How Peter and Trevor Hemmings can continue to push this line that the squad is good enough is probably what is concerning me the most. We simply can not go into the next four months of matches without improving the quality of our first team.

What numbers could you get up to?

www.pne-online.net

Transfer Window Overview - Summer 2021

CURRENT SQUAD GK: Oliver Lombard* (Contracted to June 2022 + 1Yr option) GK: Matthew Hudson (Contracted to June 2022) GK: Connor Ripley (Contracted to June 2022) GK: Daniel Iverson (Season Loan) GK: Declan Rudd (Contracted to June 2023) DF: Lewis Coulton* (Contracted to June 2022 + 1Yr option)...
www.pne-online.net www.pne-online.net

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It's bang average and highly unlikely to challenge for anything other than relegation... I hate saying that but I can see that tunnel coming. We'll be able to tell because Trev will open his moth eaten wallet. 🙂
 
Christ, we have some shit don't we, many of which are no doubt on a decent championship wage. No chance we make a big amount of panic signings in Jan given the size of our squad atm
 
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