| Slow news day - how old is our squad? 09:13 - Jun 3 with 1083 views | unstableblue |
I was watching with joy the piece on Town TV showing all Chaplin’s goals from last season - lots of crackers and important goals. Made me think will he be such a key player next season, and also how old is he?! With our ageing central midfield another consideration. Well I thought I’d list out - against a nominal squad for next season - our players ages, and see how it’s looking. (Note: this suggest 8 new players (7,8 or 9 I reckon), and a 26 man squad, I expect Baggot goes on loan).
My conclusion, firstly as Hutchison showed if you’re good enough you’re old enough. But not everyone has his prodigious talent. And some need that experience plus physical prime. Overall I’d say the squad is in its prime - 24-28 perhaps a sweet spot?? And the majority of our squad is in that range. And I’m sure that’s by design!
Any surprises - didn’t realise Luongo was younger than Morsy. Burns and Taylor slightly older than I thought. Burns is 30 in November! But in my mind his pace is evergreen! Sarmiento is younger than Ali!
Really expecting the likes of Broadhead, Burgess, Hirst and Axel to kick-on in the Premier League. And I’m sure many of the incoming players will come in under 25, barring a couple of old stager loans.
Of note Ratcliffe and his Ineos team have set a transfer blueprint at Man U that no one over the age of 25 will be targeted.
Here you go:
GK
1. Hladky - 33 years (14 November 1990)
2. Walton - 28 years (9 November 1995)
3. Slicker - 21 years (15 September 2002)
RB
4. Axel - 26 years (14 November 1997)
5. Clarke - 23 years (2 March 2001)
RCB
6. New player
7. Wolf - 25 years (21 October 1998)
8. Edmundson - 26 years (15 August 1997)
LCB
9. Burgess - 28 years (21 October 1995)
10. New player
LB
11. Davis - 24 years (31 December 1999)
12. New player
RCM
13. Morsy - 32 years (10 September 1991)
14. New player
LCM
15. New player
16. Taylor - 25 years (23 June 1998)
17. Luongo - 31 years (25 September 1992)
RAM
18. Burns - 29 years (23 November 1994)
19. New player
No.10
20. New player
21. Chaplin - 27 years (16 February 1997)
LAM
22. Broadhead - 26 years (5 April 1998)
23. Sarmiento - 21 years (16 June 2002)
Striker
24. New player
25. Hirst - 25 years (15 February 1999)
26. Ali - 22 years (1 March 2002) |  |
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| Slow news day - how old is our squad? on 09:20 - Jun 3 with 1014 views | GeoffSentence |
According to transfermarkt the average age of our squad is just over 26 |  |
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| Slow news day - how old is our squad? on 09:37 - Jun 3 with 963 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Since McKenna joined the we have signed 10 players on loan and only one was over the age of 25 - Kieffer Moore which was very much a needs must exception. So very unlikely that we would suddenly be going down an older loanee road now
What we have done during that time is bring in that sort of player permanently where needed - Ladapo, Keogh, Luongo springing immediately to mind not to mention things like retaining Aluko. I fully expect a couple of Premier League stalwarts to arrive at some point, quite probably the sort of names that those who think we only buy players with potential (we don’t) would turn their noses up at as not fitting the model |  |
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| Slow news day - how old is our squad? on 09:49 - Jun 3 with 937 views | unstableblue |
| Slow news day - how old is our squad? on 09:20 - Jun 3 by GeoffSentence |
According to transfermarkt the average age of our squad is just over 26 |
Thanks GS
From transfermarket you can also see the average age of Premier League from last season:
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/altersschnitt/wettbewerb/GB1
Unsurprisingly Chelsea the lowest and West Ham and Fulham quite high. Median maybe between 25.5 to 26.5.
Perhaps Burnley had bought too much for the future?i Ipswich at 26.3 from last season would be at the higher end. But that included Ball and Aluko. Indeed if you took Morsy and Luongo out of ours we’d be much lower. | |
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| Slow news day - how old is our squad? on 09:51 - Jun 3 with 931 views | davblue |
i think if we get Hutchinson he takes Chaplin's place IMO. Chaplin didn't have a great last half of the season thought he was very in and out with more out days. |  | | |
| Slow news day - how old is our squad? on 13:46 - Jun 3 with 688 views | Sharkey |
I doubt the loans will be the 'old-stagers'. Those will have to be bought. |  | | |
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