Current Saints Squad

[spyinthesky]

Still quite bloated.

Allowing for expected inbound and outbound players, it looks something like this:

GOALKEEPERS
Baz  / McCarthy                                                                Ramsdale?
                                                                                           Incoming?
RIGHT BACK
Bree/Sugawara                                                                 Incoming???
LEFT BACK
Welington/Manning/Taylor
DEFENSIVE MIDFIELD
Downes/Charles
CENTRAL DEFENCE
Edwards/Wood/Stephens (+ Taylor)                              Harwood Bellis?/Bednerak?
Quarshie/Sanda                                                               Bella Kotcha?
RIGHT MIDFIELD
Dibling/Robinson
LEFT MIDFIELD
Edioze/Fraser        
ATTACKING MIDFIELD
Smallbone/Aribo                                                               Fernandes ?   Incoming?  
SUPPORT STRIKER    
Archer/BBD                                                                        Armstrong?
MAIN STRIKER
Stewart/Downs

There are 24 players with no immediate feedback on departure although there will be some that still have questions against their names as a consequence of their contractual arrangements or the fact that they are not really that good.
My assumption is that 6 players have a reasonable value and the club may be willing to agree a sale/loan arrangement.
I have also assumed there is the possibility of three more positions to fill, ie 'Keeper (if Ramsdale goes) and an attacking midfielder to replace Fernandes plus the possibility of a right back to replace the dearly departed KWP.
Even allowing for this, the squad would be a hefty 27 players without the inclusion of the likes of Ballard, O'Brien Whitmarsh, Akachukwu and some of the other U21 squad who did relatively well last season.

[coalman]

Christ we have a lot of central defenders.

[ally_uk]

Sell: 

Aribo, Bednarek, Ramsdale Bella Kotchap, 

If someone offers 30 million for Bellis I'd take it.

Fraser,  Smallbone 

BBD and possibly Armstrog. 

Thats 9 players gone 

 

[S-Clarke]

I'd expect Aribo, Bednarek, ABK to go (just give ABK away at this point) for certain. That would leave us with Quarshie, THB, Wood, Stephens, Edwards as first team CB's - probably one too many there, so either we get a bid for THB, or we shift Wood out on a loan nearer the end of the window.

The two areas that raise some alarm bells as of now are Wide Attack and AMC. We cannot go into a season with those as our options, there needs to be more to work with.

The strikers in BBD, Armstrong, you'd be daft to actively move on at this point. They're proven at the level we're currently in, so we don't want to cut our noses off.

Edited 9 hours ago by S-Clarke