GarethRDR on VillaTalk has posted a list of every single Premiership player out of contract at the end of this season. Also posted rather long lists of players from Spain, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga.
I won't post the entire list as it must have taken him an absolute age to find and bring together (It's worth a look as there are a lot of players on there that would be worth a look). And he deserves a lot of credit for it tbf.
Think it's pretty fair to assume that freebies or about-to-be-freebies will be the order of the day for atleast the remainder of McLeish's reign with only what we sell being used to spend on new players and [more likely] wages.
Mods: Feel free to merge with Jan Spec thread if you want, thought it deserved its own though...but up to you!
Royston R. R. R. R. R. Drenthe
David Hoillet
Maynor Figueroa
Tranquillo Barnetta
and quite a few others.. also interesting to see the names
Diame
Guthrie
Gibson
in the list too.. All names we've been linked with recently, so shows we ARE looking this way for transfers (no surprise) or atleast the media think so (could be complete bull.)
Could make a relatively decent team from frees.
Given
Clyne - Dunne - Clark - Figueroa
Diame
Gardner Rosicky
Hoillet Gabby
Bent
Bench: Guzan, Baker, Stevens, Albrighton, Nzogbia, Bannan, Herd
Clyne will be a top fullback imo and McLeish has tried to sign him once or twice before.
Figueroa isnt a player I really like but he is better than Warnock and cheaper too. Experienced to rotate with Enda.
Hoillet will be a good player and I think we'd struggle to get him in as could go somewhere better.. Can play upfront and as he's young it would be ideal to rotate him with Marc as and when they fell out of form (expected)
Rosicky wouldnt be a favourite choice but he'd offer some experienced creativity in the middle and can always rotate with Bannan.
Get these in on the cheap in January or in for free in the summer and add in either Dann or Samba in the summer and get rid of Collins/Dunne and a decent Defensive Midfielder (maybe Diame?) but I would love Capoue of Toulouse and I think we'd have a squad capable of decent football, with good mix of Youth and Experience.
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