With one player already transfer listed, Robins has said he will not hesitate to replace more players if he believes they are not up to the job.
If this was really true we would end up with the smallest squad in the division. Its okay wanting to get rid but someone has got to take them. More money pissed up the wall by the club.
He has to find a way of boosting the players’ confidence and morale
Yer, transfer list them after 1 game
The squads for the teams as listed on the BBC website make interesting reading
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-one
They have split the teams into keepers, defence, midfield, attackers and additional players. These additional players appear to be youth team included in first team squads.
Overall we have 36 players with none allocated as "additional" The biggest squad is Doncaster at 40 but it includes 9 as "additional" and the smallest is Yeovil 21 with no "aditionals". The average squad size in the division is 28 including "additionals" without the youngsters then it is 25.
Whilst we need strength in depth you would have to say that we are probably 5 or 6 players over manned. Robins will be reducing that for two reasons - he doesnt need that many and definitely not if under performing, secondly such a large squad is a drain financially for a debateable return on some players wages SISU will look to reduce the burden.
Personally I expect 5 or 6 players to be shipped out
CCFC squad per BBC is http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/coventry-city (it doesnt include many youth players or Jeffers) ....... although I would say the BBC allocation might be questionnable eg Ruffles is not a first team regular
Bottom line is that our squad is actually too big and MR will have to make some decisions on a few players
Yes - we've gone from one extreme to the other - I thought Thorn's transfer policy was scatter gun. We've signed a lot of players but they're fairly similar really.
If this was really true we would end up with the smallest squad in the division.
The squads for the teams as listed on the BBC website make interesting reading
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/league-one
They have split the teams into keepers, defence, midfield, attackers and additional players. These additional players appear to be youth team included in first team squads.
Overall we have 36 players with none allocated as "additional" The biggest squad is Doncaster at 40 but it includes 9 as "additional" and the smallest is Yeovil 21 with no "aditionals". The average squad size in the division is 28 including "additionals" without the youngsters then it is 25.
Whilst we need strength in depth you would have to say that we are probably 5 or 6 players over manned. Robins will be reducing that for two reasons - he doesnt need that many and definitely not if under performing, secondly such a large squad is a drain financially for a debateable return on some players wages SISU will look to reduce the burden.
Personally I expect 5 or 6 players to be shipped out
CCFC squad per BBC is http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/coventry-city (it doesnt include many youth players or Jeffers) ....... although I would say the BBC allocation might be questionnable eg Ruffles is not a first team regular
Bottom line is that our squad is actually too big and MR will have to make some decisions on a few players
I would imagine a huge percentage of our wage bill is tied up in 4 or 5 players and the squad size is incidental.
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