Which players are no longer good enough?

Caballero, Kolarov, Clichy (who will probably stay because h/g), Demichelis, Navas and Bony, for me, are not up to standard.
Yaya is well past his best and despite still being a good player is a dead man walking at this club. Silva is also declining but I'm more than willing to give him a bit of time with Guardiola and hopefully watch him somewhere near his best again.
Zabaleta, Mangala, Fernando and Nasri are also at risk of being sold. 1 or 2 will probably go.
Sterling, Delph both deserve a season under Pep and will get it due to being homegrown.
Aguero and Kompany, when fit, are infinitely valuable players to the team. buuuttt their injuries do continue to be a concern. Both will stay though I would imagine.

Hart, Sagna, Otamendi, Kompany, Clichy, Fernandinho, Delph, Sterling, Silva, De Bruyne, Iheanacho, Aguero will all be here next season I would have thought.

I know the squad has stagnated, but I really don't feel too worried by that at all. We have the world's best manager walking through the doors in June and some of the best young talent around buzzing around the city system. Roberts, Denayer, Byrne, Brahim, the Garcia's, Maffeo. All brimming with talent. Sterling is still only only 21. Kelechi just 19. De Bruyne hasn't even reached his peak years yet.
Add to that Gundogan on his way with others to follow. Linked to top class young talent like Stones, Laporte, Sanches, ter Stegen etc.
Plenty to look forward to.
 
Is it not quicker to name those that are good enough? I'm very serious,we need major surgery.

Although we can field an excellent 11,even some of them are only a hairs width away from their next injury and then we have to turn to our very ordinary,sub par in a couple of instances,2nd string.

Pep and the recruitment team have a long,hard summer ahead.
 
I'd keep aguero, silva, KDB, nasri, clichy, Nacho,

The rest can piss off. Start from scratch and buy players with guts and stamina. Many of our current lot are gutless
 
All that must go:
Kolarov***
Bony
Demichelis
Yaya
Navas
Caballero
Wright
Zuccilini

On thin ice:
Sterling
Delph
Nasri (if he doesn't replicate at least what he did in 2013-14 season then bye, bye Samir.)
Mangala
Otamendi
Zabaleta (Think probably has 1 season left in him realistically)
 
Hart, Sergio, Kev, Kompany, Spanish Dave, Nacho, Dinho. They can stay. The rest can play door dodging with their arses. Some, such as Kolorov and Bony, should have their arses fined two weeks wages for deliberate sabotage.
 
Kolarov
Bony
Yaya
Demichelis
Wright
Navas
Zaba (as other have said, painful to name)
 
FantasyIreland said:
Is it not quicker to name those that are good enough? I'm very serious,we need major surgery.

Although we can field an excellent 11,even some of them are only a hairs width away from their next injury and then we have to turn to our very ordinary,sub par in a couple of instances,2nd string.

Pep and the recruitment team have a long,hard summer ahead.
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I agree, and that's why I think it's disingenuous when people say Pellegrini should've walked the league with the squad we have. Our "strength in depth" is nowhere near what some would have you believe.

For me, we should be looking to move on at least seven players this summer: Caballero, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Demichelis, Delph, Toure and Bony. There are others who I wouldn't be too disappointed at seeing leave, but don't know if such a high turnover in one window is realistic.

I'm hoping Guardiola can transform some of the existing squad and get a lot more out of them.
 
Why play a high defensive line, with midfielders who won't track runners, against a high pace counter attacking team like Southampton? Watching Samir, who I support, jogging back was embarrassing.

The team work ethic is at fault here and that is cultural. I expect big changes in that area. I do not expect massive numbers of departures though.
 
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