I’d happily never see the following players in a Boro shirt again.
Bettinelli
Fletcher
Assombalonga
Akpom
Morsy
Johnson
Spence
Mendez Laing
Saville
Bolasie
I have my reservations about Fisher (who seems to be the 2020 equivalent of Fleming), Watmore as he has gone completely off the boil, and Bola who seems to have a massive mistake in his locker every game.
All of the above are not committed/very poor and the majority have a heart the size of a pea. That’s 10 players plus the other 3 that need replacing, so maybe time to bite the bullet and accept that a long term rebuild is required which may result in a few years in the bottom half.
Fry, Tavernier, McNair, Dijksteel, Howson, Coulson, Hall are about all I’d keep. Massive, massive rebuilding required over the summer to start with and for a couple of years to come.
We are too short term, I’ve mentioned before how we’ve lurched from strategy to strategy for nearly 15 years with the only time we got it right being under Aitor - which we then threw away completely with a short term, haphazard recruitment plan that misfired badly tto has had repercussions for years.
Warnock is another example of this short term thinking. Next season will be worse than this, and then we are another year down with even more money wasted, Get shot now - he’s had his day.