Current Squad and Confirmed Signings & Sales - Summer of 2013 (Updated 3nd September)

Henry Irving

Dates refer to contract end. All contracts other than loans expire end of June in the given year.

Length of youth contracts are not always confirmed so have been assumed where unknown. Any corrections please inbox

Bold = Joined, Italics = New contract, Strikethrough = Released / Sold.


Manager
Chris Powell - 2014

Goalkeepers
Ben Hamer - 2014
Ben Alnwick - 2014
Nick Pope - 2014
John Sullivan - 2013 Released (AFC Wimbledon)
David Button - 2014 - Sold to Brentford

Right Backs
Chris Solly - 2014
Harry Osborne - 2013 (unconfirmed)

Centre Backs
Michael Morrison - 2014
Dorian Dervite - 2014
Leon Cort - 2014
Richard Wood - 2014
Kevin Feely - 2014 Loan to Carlisle
Semi Ajayi - 2013 Released (Joined Norwich)
Yado Mambo - 2013 Released
Matt Taylor - 2013 Released (Joined Bradford)

Left Backs
Rhoys Wiggins - 2014
Cedric Evina - 2014
Morgan Fox - 2014 (assumed)


Right Midfielders
Lawrie Wilson - 2015
Danny Green - 2014 MK Dons 6-week loan)
Courtney Harris - 2013 (nothing said)
Scott Wagstaff - 2013 Released (Joined Bristol City)

Central Midfielders
Mark Gower - 2014
Johnnie Jackson - 2014
Bradley Pritchard - 2014
Andy Hughes - 2014
Dale Stephens - 2014
Jordan Cousins - 2014 (assumed 2014)
Bradley Jordan - 2014
Florent Rouamba - 2013 (presuming, nothing said)
Danny Hollands - 2014 (Joined Gillingham 3mth loan)


Left Midfielders
Callum Harriott - 2016
Jordan Cook - 2014
Cameron Stewart - 4mth loan
Salim Kerkar - 2013 Released

Strikers
Yann Kermorgant - 2014
Adebayo Azeez - 2014
Joe Pigott - 2016
Marvin Sordell - Loan
Simon Church - 2015
Michael Smith - 2014 - 6-month loan AFC Wimbledon
Ricardo Fuller - 2013 (plus 1 year option) Released (Joined Blackpool)
Jonathan Obika - 2013 (loan)
Danny Haynes - 2013 Released (Joined Notts County)
Bradley Wright-Phillips - 2013 (Joined NY Knicks/Mets / Rangers / Yankees)

1st Year pro's (assumed contracts until 2014?)

Dillon Phillips - Goalkeeper
Harry Lennon - Centre Back
Diego Poyet - Central Midfielder - Offered pro terms August 2011
Harry Gerard - Central Midfielder
Oliver Muldoon - Central Midfielder
Tobi Sho-Silva - Striker - Offered pro terms January 2012
Jack Munns - Central Midfielder

U18s - Second Years -

Tom Derry - Striker - Released - Joining Gillingham

U18s - First Years
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis - Signed pro contract October 2012
All others have youth contracts until 2014.

AFKABartram

Updated and re-opened this with just a few days of the window to go.

What are we thinking squad wise ?

The clear thing for me is how much the squad has been trimmed, and how unbalanaced it is in certain areas. If you strip out some of the U21s unlikely to feature, it leaves a squad of:

Goalkeepers
1.Ben Hamer - 2014
2.Nick Pope - 2014

Defenders
3.Chris Solly - 2014
4.Michael Morrison - 2014
5.Dorian Dervite - 2014
6.Leon Cort - 2014
7.Richard Wood - 2014
8.Rhoys Wiggins - 2014
9.Cedric Evina - 2014

Midfielders
10.Lawrie Wilson - 2015
11.Danny Green - 2014
12.Mark Gower - 2014
13.Johnnie Jackson - 2014
14.Bradley Pritchard - 2014
15.Andy Hughes - 2014
16.Dale Stephens - 2014
17.Jordan Cousins - 2014
18.Callum Harriott - 2016
19.Jordan Cook - 2014

Strikers
20.Yann Kermorgant - 2014
21.Joe Pigott - 2014
22.Marvin Sordell - Loan
23.Simon Church - 2015

sam3110

Reading that you would say we need a right back, a keeper, a left midfielder and a striker, and that's not replacing any outgoings or 'upgrading' on existing players

Henry Irving

size of a world cup squad

If you count Wilson as a defender then we have cover in all areas other than goalkeeper.

But we are relying on inexperienced players such as Pigott, Pope and Cook for cover, some old and injury prone players such as Hughes and some that haven't really done it at this level (Green, Stephens) so far and a loan player up front.

Lincsaddick

10 midfielders but still no consistent cohesion from that element of the team .. but as they are all on longish contracts, we're rather stuck with them all

Covered End

The size of the squad is fine. Even Jose Mourinho says he wants a maximum of 22 players.

It's the quality that's the issue. Yes, we need a back up goalie, but if we're needing to reduce costs I can see the sense of leaving things as they are & getting in a loan if required.

Danny Addick

I think that Powell maybe views Cook as a mistake now. He's not even getting games in the Cup. Shame we gave him a 2 year really.

Rufus is a dogs name

More worrying is that every single one of those players' contracts expires in 2014, apart from Wilson, Harriott & Church!!

AFKABartram

Opening post updated.

To summarise, in comparison of where we are now to where we were at the end of the season, from the main 'impacting on the first team' squad we are:

Down perm - Sullivan, Button, Taylor, Wagstaff, Kerkar, Fuller, Haynes, Obika, Wright-Phillips
Down temp - Hollands, Green, Smith,

Gained perm - Wood, Gower, Church
Gained promoted - Cousins, Piggott, Pope
Gained temp - Sordell, Stewart

cafcfan

If you're taking Button and Sullivan out perhaps you should add Pope and, now, possibly, Dillon Phillips in the "Gained Promoted" category?

AFKABartram

Fair point on Pope, though i suspect he might be relegated again in the next few days !

Henry Irving

cafcfan said:

If you're taking Button and Sullivan out perhaps you should add Pope and, now, possibly, Dillon Phillips in the "Gained Promoted" category?

Pope is already on the list.

Philips is still an U21 player yet to make his debut.

Imnot Athletic

That summary is really useful. 12 players out, 8 players in.

The 4 difference is in 1 keeper, 2 strikers, 2 wide players and we've gained a central midfielder.

In terms of areas of the pitch

Keepers - possibly weaker than last year but our #1 is still #1
Full backs - as per last year
CB 3/4th choice exchanged for 3/4 choice
CM Hollands, who didn't feature exchanged for Gower, who will plus the bonus of Cousins
Wide lost Kerkar, Green and Wagstaff all of which rarely featured, gained Stewart who hopefully will (plus Harriot in the 2nd half of last year)
Striker. Lost Wright Phillips, Smith - rarely/never featured, Fuller and Haynes and Obika, all championship standard but two injury prone. Gained Church and Sordell both championship standard and the wild card that is Piggot.

Broken down in this way,

we're light a keeper,
Defence is as last year,
CM is arguably strengthened (though is possibly still a weakness)
Wide possibly strengthened
Striker - we've younger and fitter players but compared to last season we have only 3 champ quality rather than 4.


You can argue there is no progression but I don't think you can argue we are weakened significantly. If we add a 'keeper on loan and possibly Obika we've marginally strengthened and possibly have reduced costs.

Well done CP and the board.

AFKABartram said:

Opening post updated.

To summarise, in comparison of where we are now to where we were at the end of the season, from the main 'impacting on the first team' squad we are:

Down perm - Sullivan, Button, Taylor, Wagstaff, Kerkar, Fuller, Haynes, Obika, Wright-Phillips
Down temp - Hollands, Green, Smith,

Gained perm - Wood, Gower, Church
Gained promoted - Cousins, Piggott, Pope
Gained temp - Sordell, Stewart

cafcfan

Henry Irving said:

cafcfan said:

If you're taking Button and Sullivan out perhaps you should add Pope and, now, possibly, Dillon Phillips in the "Gained Promoted" category?

Pope is already on the list.

Philips is still an U21 player yet to make his debut.

But your point is precisely? Church & Sordell are two who are "already on the list" but still included in AFKA's summary: the idea of which is to highlight differences from last year.
And Pope is now 2nd choice keeper - until Button left he wasn't - so, for the sake of consistency, he should be seen as a squad addition if it's right to show a third choice keeper - Sullivan - in the squad deletions.
Again Philips is presumably now (perhaps temporarily) our 3rd choice keeper - just because he hasn't made his debut is neither here nor there is it. By that criterion, Stewart hasn't played yet and Smith is hardly a league regular. Just looking for some consistency.

Henry Irving

cafcfan said:

Henry Irving said:

cafcfan said:

If you're taking Button and Sullivan out perhaps you should add Pope and, now, possibly, Dillon Phillips in the "Gained Promoted" category?

Pope is already on the list.

Philips is still an U21 player yet to make his debut.

But your point is precisely? Church & Sordell are two who are "already on the list" but still included in AFKA's summary: the idea of which is to highlight differences from last year.
And Pope is now 2nd choice keeper - until Button left he wasn't - so, for the sake of consistency, he should be seen as a squad addition if it's right to show a third choice keeper - Sullivan - in the squad deletions.
Again Philips is presumably now (perhaps temporarily) our 3rd choice keeper - just because he hasn't made his debut is neither here nor there is it. By that criterion, Stewart hasn't played yet and Smith is hardly a league regular. Just looking for some consistency.

My point is that Pope was counted as a part of the first team squad, not the U21s, when the list was first drawn so can't be seen as an addition. He was certainly 2nd choice at the end of last season when he played and Button was on the bench.

If we are being picky Gower was a part of the first team last season as well so shouldn't be an addition but you could argue it either way.

AFKABartram

updated with Piggott contract. Hopefully one or two others will similarly be updated soon.

AFKABartram

Alnwick now added

Absurdistan

Doubt Laurie is the only right Midfield player in the squad?