The Squad - retain or release?


1 Anthony Patterson - retain
2 Niall Huggins - retain/loan out
3 Dennis Cirkin - new contract / 12 months left
4 Corry Evans - retain, influential, experienced, skipper
5 Daniel Ballard - retain, hes a monster
6 Danny Batth - retain, important experienced head at the back
7 Leon Dajaku - sell
8 Elliot Embleton - sell? i like him but feel we've surpassed his level
10 Patrick Roberts - new contract / 12 months left
11 Lynden Gooch - retain / good squad player
12 Alex Bass - depends on keeper situation, but ultimately we need someone to push patterson for the number 1 shirt
13 Luke O’Nien - new conract / 12 months left
14 Ross Stewart - hopefully signs / if not cash in as 12 months left
15 Carl Winchester - released
16 Amad - returned to man united
17 Abdoullah Ba - retain, gonna be important next year
18 Ellis Taylor - failed loan at hartlepool but has had a tough year personally. potential loan again?
19 Jewison Bennette - retain, loan may be off cards due to language barrier
20 Jack Clarke - retain although I feel he will be hard to keep
21 Alex Pritchard - influential in the run in but i feel he need to add more goals and assists to his game therefore not arsed if he stays or goes
22 Isaac Lihadji - retain, likely amad's replacement?
23 Jack Diamond - no comment.
24 Dan Neil - retain, improving all the time
25 Edouard Michut - returned to Paris. Option to buy?
26 Bailey Wright - sell
27 Jay Matete - i have a soft spot for him and i think he has potential, i wouldnt sell him, maybe another loan?
28 Joe Gelhardt - returned to leeds. would have him back.
29 Harrison Sohna - isnt gonna make it here
30 Jacob Carney - isnt gonna make it here
32 Trai Hume - most improved player? his development has been ace. first choice right back.
39 Pierre Ekwah - gonna be some player next season.
42 Aji Alese - again, i think hes brilliant and will only improve
45 Joe Anderson - loan out immediately, he needs games

anyone do anything differently?
33 players listed there.

Diallo, Gelhardt and if the rumours are to belived Michut are all back to their parent clubs.

Winchester released. Carney out of contract, apparently the club have a year option but the Echo reckon he'll be released. Likely the same for Sohna given he's 20 and has been nowhere near the first team while lads younger than him have been playing.

Diamond has another year but who knows what's going to happen there. Even without the goings on could you see him in this team? Count him out.

Matete and Wright aren't going to play regularly and only went out on loan because they don't want to be sat around. Chances are both will be back out on loan until the day comes they walk away.

Have the club given up on Dajaku? Do they give him another loan? Current one hasn't gone all that well. The thinking he could play centrally was flawed. Maybe he'll get another loan, maybe a cut price deal back to Germany, don't think he gets back in the side next season.

Taylor had a poor loan spell, has another year on his contract though so can see him going out on another. Anderson, Mowbray wants him out on loan and played anyone else ahead of him. Out on loan. Huggins looks a player but where does he fit in with everyone available? Likey a loan out for him.

That's down to 20 players.

From the players we have left I don't think Bennette, Ba or Lihadji go anywhere, not least because the issues Mowbray has mentioned integrating them to the squad don't just go away. They'd be worse out on loan at another club. At least another 6 month on the fringes of the first team for them.

Evans likely not fit by the start of the season. Bass stays to do the same thing he did this season, provide low cost backup. Embleton stays. Stewart to sign a new contract.
 
Looking at it positionally

GK's
Patto - Retain
Bass - Replace

Right Back
Hume - Retain
Huggins - Retain

Left Back
Alese - Retain
Cirkin - Retain

Centre Back
Batth - Retain
Ballard -Retain

Utility
Gooch - Retain
09 - Retain

Centre Midfield
Neil - Retain
Ekwah - Retain
Ba - Retain
Evans - Retain

Right Forward
Roberts - Retain
Lihadji - Retain

Left Forward
Clarke - Retain
Jewi - Retain

Centre Forward
Stewart - IF he will sign then retain, if not then million dollar question

Release / Sell
Carney (if one of the younger ones can do 3rd choice)
Bailey Wright
Matete
Sohna
Dajaku

Loan out
Anderson
Any of the other U21's that we have / are keeping on

Not Sure - Personally think it depends on how we are going to play, if we stay 4231 then Embo doesnt really fit, if we went 433, then Pritchard doesnt really fit
Pritchard
Embleton

2 centre halves is a worry (esp when both been suffering with injury)
 
Loan out Ba, Bennette, Lihadji, Anderson so they can get some game time.

Buy Michut, van Hecke

Keep Gooch, Embo, Matete & Pritch unless decent bids come in, good squad players.

Need a winger, 2 new CFs of which at least one needs to be our player, three if Stewart is off.

Try and hold onto Clarke.
 
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Tbf at the time of posting them they weren’t far from the mark.

They’ve clearly improved.

I’ll stand by the opinion that lihadji won’t ever be fit to replace diallo
i couldn’t be arsed to trawl over posters past history like, no doubt we’ve all messed up on occasions
 
33 players listed there.

Diallo, Gelhardt and if the rumours are to belived Michut are all back to their parent clubs.

Winchester released. Carney out of contract, apparently the club have a year option but the Echo reckon he'll be released. Likely the same for Sohna given he's 20 and has been nowhere near the first team while lads younger than him have been playing.

Diamond has another year but who knows what's going to happen there. Even without the goings on could you see him in this team? Count him out.

Matete and Wright aren't going to play regularly and only went out on loan because they don't want to be sat around. Chances are both will be back out on loan until the day comes they walk away.

Have the club given up on Dajaku? Do they give him another loan? Current one hasn't gone all that well. The thinking he could play centrally was flawed. Maybe he'll get another loan, maybe a cut price deal back to Germany, don't think he gets back in the side next season.

Taylor had a poor loan spell, has another year on his contract though so can see him going out on another. Anderson, Mowbray wants him out on loan and played anyone else ahead of him. Out on loan. Huggins looks a player but where does he fit in with everyone available? Likey a loan out for him.

That's down to 20 players.

From the players we have left I don't think Bennette, Ba or Lihadji go anywhere, not least because the issues Mowbray has mentioned integrating them to the squad don't just go away. They'd be worse out on loan at another club. At least another 6 month on the fringes of the first team for them.

Evans likely not fit by the start of the season. Bass stays to do the same thing he did this season, provide low cost backup. Embleton stays. Stewart to sign a new contract.
Matete will be a big player for us next season IMO
 
Matete will be a big player for us next season IMO
I do like him but I don't think he's fancied by Mowbray. Some Plymouth fans assessment of him was that he'd be the best player on the pitch in spells but chasing shadows otherwise, which is why he became more useful to them off the bench.

I'd like to see him do well and be more consistent during matches, but just have a feeling he'll want more game time than he'll get here.
 

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