Goats squad analysis thread 2024/5

Stick a fork in this season, it is done.

It is now time for the best time of the year.

And lets get straight down to bidness.

Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (4)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Andy Lonergan (HG)
Billy Crellin (HG)
Right Backs (3)
Séamus Coleman
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG)

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (5)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Michael Keane (HG)
Ben Godfrey (HG)
Jarrad Branthwaite (UA)
Mason Holgate (HG)

Midfield (6)
Amadou Onana
James Garner (HG)
Idrissa Gueye
Abdoulaye Doucouré
André Gomes
Dele Alli (HG)

Wide Forwards (4)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG)
Arnaut Danjuma
Lewis Dobbin (UA)

Strikers (4)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto
Neal Maupay

Total players: 27

Players purchased so far:

Players culled so far:

Non-HG players: 12
Home-grown players: 13
Underage players: 2

This is the squad as it stands, on the 1st July if not before our loan players will return and contracts will expire.

I will make changes at that time, I just had some time and wanted to have a first draft I could change, cos I have probably made lots of errors, so the good people of Got will highlight them for me!

Goat said:

Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Andy Lonergan (HG)
Billy Crellin (HG)
Séamus Coleman
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG)
Vitaliy Mykolenko
James Tarkowski (HG)
Michael Keane (HG)
Ben Godfrey (HG)
Jarrad Branthwaite (UA)
Mason Holgate (HG)
Amadou Onana
James Garner (HG)
Idrissa Gueye
Abdoulaye Doucouré
André Gomes
Dele Alli (HG)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG)
Arnaut Danjuma
Lewis Dobbin (UA)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto
Neal Maupay

Total players: 27

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The nine departures I'm expecting. Leaves a squad of 18, with 4 of them goal keepers. An outfield squad of 14 players. We are in big trouble, huge trouble. We all praying now that forest and leicester start next term on -10 points each? We'll need every miracle there is to see Goodison out with top flight football.

Might be the year Andy Lonergan finally leaves.

Maybe asterisk the out of contract and end of loan players for us !!

I can only see us extending a few. The job is too hard without doing so I think

Just curious about some UA players who have been regularly linked to the senior squad, the likes of Tyler Onyango, Lewis Warrington and Mackenzie Hunt. What's the criteria? Not a critique, but looking to understand. Thanks!

formerly manx toffee said:

Maybe asterisk the out of contract and end of loan players for us !!

I can only see us extending a few. The job is too hard without doing so I think

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I was going to asterisk them and I was also going to leave them out, but people seem to like seeing them and them getting removed, I dunno which is best.

Asterisk would have been better I suppose.

But theres a chance some may stay.

den said:

Just curious about some UA players who have been regularly linked to the senior squad, the likes of Tyler Onyango, Lewis Warrington and Mackenzie Hunt. What's the criteria? Not a critique, but looking to understand. Thanks!

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I personally dont really consider them first team players, in and around the squad, but never really playing, if any were to break through and stake a claim I would add them for sure.

Dobbin I was unsure of keeping in, for example.

Goat said:

Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (4)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Andy Lonergan (HG)
Billy Crellin (HG)
Right Backs (3)
Nathan Patterson

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (5)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Michael Keane (HG)
Ben Godfrey (HG)
Mason Holgate (HG)

Midfield (6)
James Garner (HG)
Abdoulaye Doucouré

Wide Forwards (4)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Lewis Dobbin (UA)

Strikers (4)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto

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Rumoured sales, out of contract players gone and loans returned

Jesus Christ that’s grim

Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (4)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Andy Lonergan (HG) *
Billy Crellin (HG)

Right Backs (3)
Séamus Coleman *
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG) *

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (5)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Michael Keane (HG)
Ben Godfrey (HG)
Jarrad Branthwaite (UA)
Mason Holgate (HG)

Midfield (6)
Amadou Onana
James Garner (HG)
Idrissa Gueye *
Abdoulaye Doucouré
André Gomes *
Dele Alli (HG) *

Wide Forwards (4)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG) *
Arnaut Danjuma *
Lewis Dobbin (UA)

Strikers (4)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto
Neal Maupay

Total players: 27

Players purchased so far:

Players culled so far:

Non-HG players: 12
Home-grown players: 13
Underage players: 2

* = Contract or loan to expire

I'm hoping for a high turnover of players this summer. I doubt it'll happen though. The club will extend some contracts of players that should never wear the shirt ever again.

I think we extend Gueye, and look for a cheap deal for Harrison.

The rest are probably going to go. Especially Gomes and Dele who are too expensive to keep.

Hopefully we sell Holgate, Keane, Maupay and will probably have to sell Onana.

I’d like to see a few youth lads step up. Are Onyango, Warrington, Welch, Mills good enough to come in and provide some cover? I’d like to think Mills especially after his loan could cover both full back positions.

We’d then need two wide forwards a centre back, and a central midfielder.

Goat said:

Manager : Sean Dyche

Goalkeepers (4)
Jordan Pickford (HG)
João Virgínia (HG)
Andy Lonergan (HG) *
Billy Crellin (HG)

Right Backs (3)
Séamus Coleman *
Nathan Patterson
Ashley Young (HG) *

Left Backs (1)
Vitaliy Mykolenko

Centre Backs (5)
James Tarkowski (HG)
Michael Keane (HG)
Ben Godfrey (HG)
Jarrad Branthwaite (UA)
Mason Holgate (HG)

Midfield (6)
Amadou Onana
James Garner (HG)
Idrissa Gueye *
Abdoulaye Doucouré
André Gomes *
Dele Alli (HG) *

Wide Forwards (4)
Dwight McNeil (HG)
Jack Harrison (HG) *
Arnaut Danjuma *
Lewis Dobbin (UA)

Strikers (4)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (HG)
Youssef Chermiti (UA)
Beto
Neal Maupay

Total players: 27

Players purchased so far:

Players culled so far:

Non-HG players: 12
Home-grown players: 13
Underage players: 2

* = Contract or loan to expire

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Christ

Will selling Onana be enough to satisfy PSR or will we have to sell Branthwaite this summer?

The binman chronicles said:

Will selling Onana be enough to satisfy PSR or will we have to sell Branthwaite this summer?

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With the way PSR works, its possible that just selling Maupay would be enough.

But that would need looking at closer than I can manage.

Goat said:

I was going to asterisk them and I was also going to leave them out, but people seem to like seeing them and them getting removed, I dunno which is best.

Asterisk would have been better I suppose.

But theres a chance some may stay.

I personally dont really consider them first team players, in and around the squad, but never really playing, if any were to break through and stake a claim I would add them for sure.

Dobbin I was unsure of keeping in, for example.

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Maybe a separate section for the "pool (maybe puddle is more fitting) of potential" plus positions?

Thinking out loud - or not as the case may be coz I'm writing. You know what I mean.

tellmema said:

Maybe a separate section for the "pool (maybe puddle is more fitting) of potential" plus positions?

Thinking out loud - or not as the case may be coz I'm writing. You know what I mean.

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Well most of us know the names, if the boys Mills, Warrington and others start getting on the pitch then I will gladly add them.