hypochondriac

People don't understand hypotheticals...

That's not what was asked though. Go into the season with the squad as it is or buy and sell as usual?

Interesting question in twitter. If you had the choice would you rather keep the rest of the players now but not sign anyone else or buy and sell players as normal. I think I'd go for the first option given the choice.

I think the main thing is if they can play the inverted full back role that Martin wants.

Quite a few mixed messages about which one is better.

Even if true, it wouldn't take a genius to predict that we may sign someone tomorrow. We will definitely have a medical booked between now and Friday.

Probably someone like drameh.

Good enough to be our Che adams replacement?

Only one game though. Is he good enough to be our Rickie Lambert?

I woukd hope that we wouldn't sanction the sale of someone really important like Adams unless we had already secured the replacement. That's normally how these things work.

Luis Duk. Is he any good does anyone know?

Loads of the players live in Winchester anyway

Poor lyon

Surely off to whoever doesn't get Adams? Wolves, Fulham or Bournemouth.

Please.

Is Mara capable of 9 goals in 11 starts (15 total) like Billy Sharp? I doubt it personally.

I suppose the advantage of a loan is that if we don't go up we don't have a load of people on high wages weighing down our wage bill.

That's a good point. Looking at the stats, it's surprising how massively reliant on Lambert we were as he scored an obscene amount at this level that I doubt Adams will get close to even if he does stay. I think what Adam Blackmore said is right that we do need to replace the goals that Tella would have given us if we want promotion. Ryan fraser looked decent in his cameo on Saturday, but I feel it is risky to rely on him to chip in with too many goals. Keeping or replacing Adams and getting in a Tella replacement is imo they key to our season regardless of what we do at the back.

Nothing of note. Three days to go!

Deferring the entire payment until the following year is insanity. If they go down they will be beyond screwed. Expect they will stay up though...

Now official. Good to see its just a loan. That way when we win the league he can come raring back into the first team ready to go!

I think it's better to work on the assumption that they are all leaving before Friday and concentrate on getting the best replacements possible.

Looking back at our last championship squad you had Lambert who played the vast majority of games, but you also had backup with Billy Sharp, Tadanari Lee and David Connolly. If we somehow manage to keep Adams then we will be hoping he will play the Lambert role (play the majority of games and score a load of goals) but I am not sure we have the depth beyond that. Arguably Armstrong can get similar figures to someone like Lallana but it would be great if Mara coukd hit some sort of form, otherwise it may be tough without another reliable goalscorer.

I think we will definitely be weaker in attacking areas whatever we do but almost certainly stronger at the back and in Central midfield areas than we were a couple of weeks ago. Stress nger could also mean strength in depth. I share some of your concerns about the quality of our squad but I'm still optimistic that we replace Tella and the rest of the outgoings before Friday (even if losing Adams now is a blow that we may not be able to recover from.)

TBF he didn't say a stronger team than last season, he said stronger than it is now (now being a week or so ago.) He would probably argue that with a replacement for Tella, Wood in, the three loabs and an Adams replacement that it would be stronger or at the very least a stronger unit defensively.