Which Players would you keep next season

[rougegorge]

I would like to keep:

Lescott
Okore
Gana
Ayew
Amavi
Gil
Traore
Richards (going against the grain I know)

I would understand if the club kept:

Bunn
Veretout
Grealish
Cissokho

Many of the others have such a deeply-ingrained losing mentality and a propensity for mistake-making,  that I cannot see much benefit in them staying, either for us or for them. However, given they may not all be very marketable and upgrades will not necessarily be forthcoming,  it could mean more of them extending their stay.

[ozzjim]

I think we will be stripped of 4 or 5 that we won't want to sell.  Lescott Okore Cissokho Gana Veretout and Ayew plus maybe Gil will get picked off.

[eamonn]

Bacuna and Westwood are contracted til next decade.

[Lobsterboy]

Given we are dropping down to The Championship I don't particularly want to see wholesale changes to the current squad nor do I believe we need them as I think we are only a keeper, a winger and a striker away from being more than competitive at that level (e.g. automatic promotion or play offs at worst)

Personally would like to see Guzan, Baker, Bennett, Richardson, N'Zgobia, Robinson, Kozak, Sinclair and Sanchez all gone - the rest I'm happy to keep

Realistically the likes of Gana, Ayew, Richards and Lescott will all be gone when we get relegated but would rather they stayed and helped get us out of the mess that they got us in in the first place!

[LiamAVFC]

Keep:
Bunn
Amavi
Cissoko
Clark
Okore
Hutton
Vertout
Gueye
Sanchez
Gardener
Westwood
Lyden
Gil
Grealish
Traore
Ayew

Not certain we'll be able to keep all of them and I doubt we'll be able to shift all of the rest.

[not3bad]

No point speculating who to keep, who will want to stay here?
Besides, anything of any value will no doubt be sold.

Agreed.  We cannot be too cavalier about who we get rid of as we're just a small squad.  We must hang on to the more honest lads.

[in exile]

Bacuna and Westwood are contracted til next decade.

Rejoice!

[ASHTONVILLA]

The club will sell every single player an offer comes in for, which will likely mean we start next season without Ayew, Gana, Sinclair, Richards, Lescott, Okore, Guzan, Grealish, Kozak, Baker, Bennett and Gardner.

That leaves us with a pretty poor team, which I hope we add too but I am not holding my breath. Goodness knows who will be manager, someone like Warnock, Holloway or Pearson most likely.

Can't see things improving until Lerner buggers off, and can't see him taking a low offer. Until then we will be cutting costs to be profitable at whatever level we drop to. I honestly don't think Lerner gives a toss what level that is so long as he doesn't have to put money in again.

[rob_bridge]

Assume we get relegated

Bunn (as reserve keeper)
Lescott
Okore (though I doubt we can)
Bacuna probably his level
Amavi
Veretout
Ayew
Traore
Kozak

Those under 21 mainly

The rest can go bye bye

[PaulWinch again]

I think we will be stripped of 4 or 5 that we won't want to sell.  Lescott Okore Cissokho Gana Veretout and Ayew plus maybe Gil will get picked off.

Well that basically leaves us with virtually no-one of use. It'd only be Amavi, Traore and Grealish I'd definitely want kept other than those. In Grealish's case it's purely hope that he might end up alright.

[gpbarr]

The club will sell every single player an offer comes in for, which will likely mean we start next season without Ayew, Gana, Sinclair, Richards, Lescott, Okore, Guzan, Grealish, Kozak, Baker, Bennett and Gardner.

That leaves us with a pretty poor team, which I hope we add too but I am not holding my breath. Goodness knows who will be manager, someone like Warnock, Holloway or Pearson most likely.

Can't see things improving until Lerner buggers off, and can't see him taking a low offer. Until then we will be cutting costs to be profitable at whatever level we drop to. I honestly don't think Lerner gives a toss what level that is so long as he doesn't have to put money in again.

Yup that's about right. As I have said before, it's going to get worse before it gets better. While Lerner remains in charge, we will continue to drop. Frightening times for a once proud institution

[TimTheVillain]

The club will sell every single player an offer comes in for, which will likely mean we start next season without Ayew, Gana, Sinclair, Richards, Lescott, Okore, Guzan, Grealish, Kozak, Baker, Bennett and Gardner.

That leaves us with a pretty poor team, which I hope we add too but I am not holding my breath. Goodness knows who will be manager, someone like Warnock, Holloway or Pearson most likely.

Can't see things improving until Lerner buggers off, and can't see him taking a low offer. Until then we will be cutting costs to be profitable at whatever level we drop to. I honestly don't think Lerner gives a toss what level that is so long as he doesn't have to put money in again.

Yup that's about right. As I have said before, it's going to get worse before it gets better. While Lerner remains in charge, we will continue to drop. Frightening times for a once proud institution

Agree bud, the fat lady is gargling the mouthwash.

I think it's about who will stay and try to bring us back up again ... Gestede MIGHT be ok in the Championship again, and Gabby might run riot at some defences.

But it won't be an easy ride.

It'll be more fun than the perennial relegation flaunting that we've endured since MON went mind.

[eddiemunster]

On the subject of keep or get rid, my apologies to Loxton

GO

Guzan - Value £7.5m   Wages £30,000 per week
Siegrist - £300,000      £5,500   Out of contract end of season
Richards - £8m           £50,000
Lescott - £925,000      £45,000
Richardson - £875,000   £22,500  Out of contract end of season
NZog -  £3.4m           £48,000      Out of contract end of season
Lewis Kinsella -  £84,000    £1,500   Out of contract end of season, has contract extension clause
Janoi Donacien - £245,000   £3,000  Out of contract end of season
Callum Robinson -  £625,000     £4,000   Out of contract end of season, has contract extension clause


GET RID IF WE CAN FIND A BUYER

Gabby -  £ 7m    £55,000
Gestede - £ 7.75m  £30,000
Clark - £5.5m   £30,000
Baker - £ 4.7m   £ 25,000
Westwood - £ 7.25m   £30,000
Bacuna - £4.9m   £25,000
Sinclair - £6.5m   £35,000

There are 19 other players out of contract at the end of the season, 8 of whom have extension clauses.
Out of contract players without extension clauses (including those in the GO list),would have a combined value of approximately £5,202,000 and a wage saving of approx. £88,500 per week.
Unfortunately, the players who aren't out of contract would require a combined total of over £ 71m in compensation, just to end their contracts,if we cannot find a buyer.

Sorry everyone, but Lerner aint gonna pay out that much, so apart from the 26 players who are out of contract ,who are mostly U21's and U18's, everyone else in the above lists (Go & Get Rid)will still be here next season.

[Dave]

Guzan - Value £7.5m

*raises eyebrow quizzically*

[Clark W Griswold]

I would like to see us get rid of anyone with a shit attitude or were we are not getting close to value for money. Not being privvy to what goes on behind the scenes I'm not sure but I would suspect Gabby, NZogbia and Guzan would be good to offload, and maybe Sinclair and Grealish if he doesn't shape up quickly. I would suspect that Gana, Richards and Ayew will get offers to stay in the PL, but if our first choice 11 next season is something like;
GK Bunn
RB Hutton
LB Sissoko
CB Lescott
CB Okore
RM Bacuna
CM Westwood
CM Veretout
LM Amavi
AM Gill
CF Gestede

I'd be fairly confident of a return back to the PL. You may scoff at the likes of Westwood, Bacuna and Gestede but I think they'd look good a league down. I'd fancy the game plan to be Bacuna and Amavi whipping balls in from wide with Gill and Veretout breaking forward to join the attacks, and I think we'd be a very solid unit with that line up.