hypochondriac

My opinion on losing some of these players has a lot to do with if we can keep Fernandes for a season or not. I'd happily junk almost all the players if it meant we managed to do that. It's obviously more like that we do sell Fernandes and then this extra money from the likes of Edozie had best be put to good use to get one of the best AM in the division as well as adequate replacements for positions like Edozie where we are a bit light.

I made a follow up post just below that one.

Having said that, this is all fine if losing all these fringe players for decent fees helps us to keep some of the big four.

Hmm. Losing Sulemana, Edozie and SAA in a year isn't great. We'd really need a top quality winger to compensate.

As a striker?

Sainz will be in the prem. I'd have liked Sargent but we haven't been linked.

I'm not sure we can view Downs as a negative yet until he's actually shown what he can do. He hasn't proven himself yet but he hasn't disproven himself either.

Indeed and it's a good point worth mentioning. Maybe we won't have the same level of control that we had in some matches either but hopefully we will score a few more and overwhelm teams in a manner that we didn't under tippy tappy.

The last time we got promoted our forward line was Mara and Adams

Personally I'm hoping it's Stewart, Downs, Archer and maybe Ballard.

You're right I wouldn't be mentioning BBD and I doubt he will be here. For me, Charles of 2025 is better than two years ago. Add Ramsdale, Dibling, Fernandes and Archer and that is clearly preferable to last time. The problem is it's not really a fair comparison because we are obviously going to lose two or three of them. However, I'd expect us to get a better keeper in than Bazunu. We will most likely end up weaker at rb and possibly in AM but hopefully with a stronger midfield overall, more depth at CB, stronger at lb and maybe with a comparable attack.

I don't care about your crappy league comparisons. Their championship goal scoring records are comparable.

Getting him off the books is the most important thing. He's still quite young and lots of potential as you say. We should get a few million at least.

So he is comparable with Adams then. That's actually a better goalscoring rate in the league we are actually in.

I wouldn't say that's too outlandish. Archer and Adams are probably comparable. Certainly Ramsdale, Dibling and Fernandes are a cut above everyone else in that list. I expect they will all leave though.