Squad Age Concerns

[BarryP]

Quotes are pulled from another thread

(love to know the stats on that one-- are we the oldest side in the Prem?)

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/premier-league/startseite/wettbewerb_GB1.html

yep, the oldest by a fair bit too, stoke is the closest but other than that, the gap is nearly a whole year

Extracted from the above link with a little input from me. What concerns you most about these numbers?

# 1 12 19 2 3 4 5 6 14 18 22 32 11 13 16 17 20 23 26 27 29 8 15 21 25 30 35

Player Mark Schwarzer David Stockdale Pascal Zuberbühler Stephen Kelly Carlos Salcido John Pantsil Brede Hangeland Chris Baird Philippe Senderos Aaron Hughes Fredrik Stoor Rafik Halliche Zoltán Gera Danny Murphy Damien Duff Bjørn Helge Riise Dickson Etuhu Clint Dempsey Kagisho Dikgacoi Jonathan Greening Simon Davies Andrew Johnson Diomansy Kamara Eddie Johnson Bobby Zamora Mousa Dembélé David Elm

Age 38 25 39 27 30 29 29 28 25 31 26 24 31 33 31 27 28 27 26 31 31 29 30 26 29 23 27

Status  Starter  Bench  Squad  Bench  Starter  Bench  Starter  Starter  Squad  Starter  Squad  Squad  Bench  Starter  Bench  Squad  Starter  Starter  Squad  Bench  Starter  Bench  Squad  Squad  Starter  Starter  Squad

Average Age   Starter   29.73
Average Age   Bench    29
Average Age   Squad    27.78
      
# of Players   Starter   11
# of Players   Bench    7
# of Players   Squad    9