Team for next season
Well the easy part is done!!
Going on the performance of last years promoted teams,we will have to spend big to have any chance of staying in the PL.
Ipswich spent around 130 million,Leicester around 100 million & Southampton around 70 million last summer and are all relegated with 4 or more games left.
Who does everyone think we should keep/sell from current squad -
I would go with something like this
Gk- New GK (would love Trafford but doubt it,Maybe Nick Pope),Darlow as no. 2
And sell Meslier(best thing for him & the club,he needs to rebuild his confidence)
Left back-Sign Cirkin from Sunderland or Kietan Tierney to compete with Firpo(If he will sign a new deal)
Right back- Bogle is good enough and I think we will keep Smidt and/or Byram as back up.
Center back-Strujic & Rodon are good enough but I would like us to sign another cb to push them. Loan Debayo out. Ampadu as extra cover. Sell-Wobber
CM- Tanaka & Ampadu are good enough,I'd sell Gruev. Would need to sign another midfielder or 2(not kalvin),I'd sign Rothwell as a squad player,he offers something different & can dictate the pace of games.
Number 10 - we need a new number 10 Gus Hammer or better?Keep Aaronson as a squad player.
Wing-Sign Solomon,Keep James & Gnonto. Sell Harrison..not sure with Ramazani he looked really good early in the season but didnt impress after his injury.
Strikers- keep Piroe but sign someone to push him for number 9 jersey(would love Delap but he will probably go to a team higher up the table.
Sell-Bamford
Loan-Joseph
I really hope the scouting staff have another Rafinha up their sleeve.
Guy has said that we don't have any money left for transfers in the January window due to psi/ppi (whatever the fk it is) and the 69ers also said (or some "in the know" journalists?) that we couldn't buy any players late on in the last window....
What I don't understand is why we were in for Harry Wilson in the last couple of hours of the summer window, and indeed still trying to force a deal through for the couple of hours after it had closed with the paperwork rules etc....
Surely if we had no available money, how the fk was a deal for him going to get done!?
Even Fulham have confirmed we were near to getting him....he would have been £12-15(?)m so how were we so close to getting him? The money MUST have been available!?
Either we did/do have the funds to buy or we can't!?
Surely the 69ers had done their sums and known if we could get him or not!?
Is it only me that's clever cause no reports seem to have picked up on this?