So, in the year Ange has been our manager (and Nunn, Lange etc. all came on board) we have offloaded 15 players (and counting ...):
Lloris
Royal
Sanchez
Dier
Rodon
Tanganga
Perisic
Sessengnon
Ndombele
Winks
Hojbjerg
Gil
Moura
Kane
Parrott
Some really big wages off the books as a result of that (Lloris, Perisic, Kane etc.).
In the same period we have signed 15 players (younger, hungrier players with lower weekly wages):
Vicario
Porro
Phillips
Vuskovic
Van de Ven
Dragusin
Kulusevski
Maddison
Bergvall
Gray
Johnson
Veliz
Solomon
Solanke
Yang
I expect another 3 or 4 to leave as we still have too many senior players to even make the bench (and we expect to signat least 1 more!). For example, if this is our (hypothetical) starting line up:
Vicario
Porro -- Romero -- VdV -- Udogie
Bissouma
Sarr --- Maddison
Johnson ---- Solanke ---- Son
Could you pick 9 players from the 15 below for the bench:
Forster, Austin, Spence, Dragusin, Davies, Gray, Bentancur, Bergvall, Skipp, Lo Celso, Werner, Kulusevski, Richarlison, Solomon, Moore
Picking 9 would still leave 6 players sitting at home, and that is without adding the other youngsters who have impressed in pre-season (and will now surely be loaned out) ... Phillips, Devine, Donley, Lankshear.
I would be looking to offload Skipp, Solomon and Lo Celso, whilst encouraging Davies and Forster to be bit part players who can transition to coaching roles. If Davies wants to maximise minutes in the autumn of his career I'd let him leave on a free as he has been a great servant.
This does show the value of players like Gray and Bergvall who can cover FB, CB, #6, #8 and #10 between them.
Also, is it possible that Bentancur and Kulusevski could be sold to make room for Mikey Moore or a marquee WF signing?