Can't see King getting another club in the Premier League if he enforced that. Sissoko probably would find another club
I agree that King has done very little to get an EPL club interested, but one of the newly promoted clubs, or Palace/Brighton would probably take him as a squad player. I can see Sissoko going to a club like Fulham.
That’d be lovely. I imagine they’re both on fat wages and King really couldn’t be arsed in the Championship with muff, so would only be a drain on resources.
I was pretty excited when King first joined. Take his hat-trick against Manure away and his odd goal and hold up play, he has just been a more competent Gray. Problem is, at this level we needed something more. But as he was cheap and we needed a replacement for Deeney and Gray, we got King and Fletcher. Sheesh.
Agreed King looked like a reasonable addition to the squad, but in reality he has been less effective than TD or Gray. His hat-trick was actually against Everton - as he wanted to show them what a good player he was and that they were wrong not to play him last season! Take out that 90mins and he has played 1907mins for us contributing 1 goal and 3 assists from open play (plus 1 penalty) Since that open play goal in the 4-1 win over Man Utd he has played 1331mins and contributed 1 assist. He will not be missed if he leaves in the summer.
Is there an option to get rid of them all and start again? Would love to see some academy players come through next year in the academy. Think we need to start flooding through some of the youngsters because that is how we are going to start achieving again!
Soooo, this season of hell is over with now, Hodgson is gone, so is Foster (HALLELUJAH!), are there any other significant names who are out of contract this season?
Apparently some Watford players were chatting to fans somewhere after the game . Masina as we know said he was off whilst Cathcart/Gosling suggested they were staying. All hearsay and conjecture probably at this stage .
Foster, N’Koulou, Gray, Etebo and Kucka all gone. How much are we saving on wages there? If I had to guess; Fozzy, the absolute Legend - £40k p/w N’Koulou - £20k p/w Gray - £70k p/w Etebo - £20k p/w Kucka - £30k p/w Probably somewhere around £180k p/w for those 5 I reckon. About £9.3mil a year we’ve just shaved off. Now just need to get, Kiko, Masina, Ekong, definitely Ekong (easily the worst CB at the club), Sissoko, Samir (if it’s true he wants out), Dennis, Sarr and King, all out of the club. edit: And Rose, forgot about him
Plus whatever we were paying Deeney as I doubt he just walked away from his final year of his last lucrative contract and we probably didn't have enough money to pay it off in one lump sum.
PLAYERS STILL UNDER CONTRACT TO US FOR NEXT SEASON AND SOME OF THEM EVEN BEYOND THAT: - Sissoko (32) - 2023 Sarr (24) - 2024 Rose (31) - 2023 Gosling (32) - 2023 Massina (28) - 2023 WTE (28) - 2025 Cathcart (33) - 2023 Kiko (31) - 2024 Peneranda (24) - 2023 Elliot (36) - 2023 Sema ((28) - 2023 Pedro (20) - 2025 Bachmann (27) - 2024 Dahlberg (23) - 2025 Ngakia (21) - 2024 Baah (19) - 2026 Samir (27) - 2025 Dele Bashiru (22) - 2025 Fletcher (26) - 2026 Kalu (24) - 2025 Kamara (28) - 2025 Kayembe (23) - 2026 King (30) - 2023 Louza (23) - 2026 Okoye (22) - 2027 Pollock (20) - 2026 Zinckernagal (27) - 2026 Pussetto (26) - 2024 Asprilla (18) - South American wonder kid signed but loaned back to his original club, but should be coming over for this season? Which of this lot, if any, would you like to see in our first team squad for the 2022/23 season.
2023 could be a very busy summer for turn over of players if some of those aren’t gone by then . Zinckernagel is a classic example of handing out too long a contract. Sent out on loan within 6 months and now potentially going to be sold for very little .
EDIT; - APPARENTLY CUCHO IS UNDER CONTRACT TO US UNTIL JUNE 2024, BUT I CANNOT FIND ANY OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF THIS. CAN ANYONE CONFIRM IF THIS IS TRUE OR NOT?