Thursday, March 26, 2015

Summer clear out

Although I am very skeptical I was interested to hear that the Newcastle United squad will be overhauled this summer that Mike Ashley has realised the errors of his ways and will invest in players. I don't plan on holding my breath on this, but hope to be pleasantly surprised.

With that in mind,  I have broken down our squad giving my opinion on who we should keep, and who we should move on. I have used the following 5 categories:

Starters - Players I believe merit a first team spot next season
Keep - Players I would be happy to keep in the first team squad
Can go - Players I would not miss if they were moved on this summer, but could retained as squad players.
Gone - Players I want to see moved on this summer
U21's - The young players we have not had a chance to judge.


Starters
1 Tim Krul
7 Moussa Sissoko
9 Papiss Cisse
10 Siem de Jong
14 Jack Colback
17 Ayoze Perez
19 Massadio Haidara
20 Remy Cabella
22 Daryl Janmaat


Keep
27 Steven Tayor
28 Sammy Ameobi 
30 Mehdi Abeid
36 Paul Dummett
16 Rolando Aarons

Gone:
6 Mike Williamson
8 Vurnon Anita
15 Facundo Ferreyra
21 Rob Elliot
31 Jak Alnwick
39 Shane Ferguson

Can go:
2 Fabricio Coloccini
4 Ryan Taylor
11 Yoan Gouffran
18 Jonas Gutierrez
24 Cheick Tiote
25 Gabriel Obertan
29 Emmanuel Riviere

U21's - not proven yet
32 Adam Armstrong
33 Curtis Good
34 Remie Streete
35 Adam Campbell
37 Lubo Satka
38 Gael Bigirimana
40 Olivier Kemen
41 Freddie Woodman
42 Kevin Mbabu 
23 Haris Vuckic