Saint Garrett

Did you really count that?

More likely than Yoshida and Hoedt playing CB? No... We'll just go back to 4 at the back I'm pretty sure.

I cashed out before WHU game last week as thought we'd win. Took £120 from a potential £340 win. Wish I'd kept it in now...! Surprised we're still less than evens to go down.

Personally feel a lot more confident with a defensive unit of the below. And maybe stick Lemina in there too.. --------McCarthy Cedric Yoshida Hoedt Bertrand -------Romeu Hojbjerg

Performance gives us a bit more hope, we are capable of getting results if we put that effort in. Beat Bournemouth, beat Swansea, get 2/3 other points and we have a chance. Chelsea are beatable thats for sure if you get at them.

Yup. Cedric is dreadful

Who?! He's ****e. He came in and did a half decent job given the situation in the second half of last season, but thats probably because the team only went to the half way line.

Indeed - the whole season has been a car crash, and last season going into the season without an adequate squad, and then doing the same thing this season.

RIP.

Tedious link tbf, Puel old boss, Bournemouth up the road, Villa pay big wages in the Championship.

Literally made them up as a best guess.

Stephens can't defend, wouldn't even say hes great on the ball tbh. Can't header, can't mark, weak, can't track his man.

Although I agree - we all said the same thing when we went to Liverpool without Virgil...

Mad

Wesley Hoedt 80k Mario Lemina 80k Manolo Gabbiadini 80k Ryan Bertrand 80k Fraser Forster 80k Sofiane Boufal 70k Charlie Austin 60k Oriol Romeu 60k Shane Long 50k James Ward-Prowse 50k Pierre-EmileHøjbjerg 50k Cédric Soares 50k Guido Carrillo 50k Dušan Tadić 50k Maya Yoshida 40k Steven Davis 40k Nathan Redmond 40k Alex McCarthy 35k Jérémy Pied 30k Jack Stephens 20k Jan Bednarek 20k Sam McQueen 20k Josh Sims 20k Jake Hesketh 20k Matt Targett 20k Stuart Taylor 10k = £1.2m week = £62.6m a year (+bonuses not that any of them deserve any) Probably underestimating some of them.

Worrying that Bednarek isn't better than him, bloody weird transfer that.

But we dont have that many "high earners"...especially compared to teams like Everton & West Ham. Would love to see our wages by player.

Literally no idea how this works with us having such high wages. Whats happened?

Hughes / Rowett

He's no better than these two IMO.

Don't think it will be that low, but certainly will drop in value, especially if we can't afford their wages...apparently we have the highest wage bill outside the top 6?! And on MLG's note about Pickford - he's one of the best goalkeeper prospects around, and he's young and english. Can't see us bringing in much for - Tadic - Boufal - Gabbiadini - Carrillo Would probably make our money back on Hojbjerg & Lemina.

He's pretty awful. Not his fault but probably the worst CB we've had for us in the Prem?

Just got to get rid of early in the summer, and start getting ready for the new season as early as possible. I dont want half of them still here during pre season.

We'll likely sell quite a few of these at a loss or "cut price" because their wages aren't sustainable. What we paid for them is completely irrelevant now, especially regarding Boufal. Don't think the market works when you have high earners and a huge cut in revenue, they'll be going if we can find someone to take them. Plus - not sure who would pay £12m for Cedric, he's terrible.

Wouldn't be surprised if neither of these happen...!