I've written an article explaining this a lot better than I will be able to here but I'll summarise.

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In the summer we'll have 13 or more (as things stand) players out of contract, including the 3 loan players. Granted, many of the players we'll be happy to see the back of but a man out, even Mutch, has to be replaced.

If we average out the cost of a new player to be just £5m then it will cost £65m to replace all 13 players with bang average replacements/players for the future.

We have a goalkeeper on a pre-contract who is a free and we can take Rakip for £10m. That's an average of £5m.

Given that we are notorious for being hard up we're either going to have to be lucky with free transfers or Freedman is going to have to pull something special out of the bag because we don't have the players in the academy who can step up.

Staying up (which I think we'll manage) will only be part of the struggle because of poor planning.

Not sure about your reasoning. Just because players are out of contract, doesn’t mean they will be released. Therefore the rest of your argument doesn’t stack up.

I agree with your sentiment however they can already discuss deals with other clubs as they are under 6 months left of their contract.

The 3 loans end, Mutch, Lee, Delaney, Sako, Speroni could easily not be renewed. Cabaye won't stay.

That's 9. We have no choice if they leave or stay if they have no contract. Therefore we either buy, sign a free or play youth which we don't have in numbers.

Stacking up yet?

I agree I expect we will end up signing 5 to new deals.

We needed another 6+ players in the summer just gone and didn't get them so don't have much hope in going out and buying a load this summer.

Again we will get multi loans I expect 2 from Prem maybe some others from abroad.

SP doesn't really like to spend on multi players he would rather waste time and get one big signing which is why we are in trouble.

This clubs needs a rebuild and our current owners are the wrong guys to do that (getting in the Americans was wrong move and clearly a panic decision from SP)

I've written an article explaining this a lot better than I will be able to here but I'll summarise.

[Link]

In the summer we'll have 13 or more (as things stand) players out of contract, including the 3 loan players. Granted, many of the players we'll be happy to see the back of but a man out, even Mutch, has to be replaced.

If we average out the cost of a new player to be just £5m then it will cost £65m to replace all 13 players with bang average replacements/players for the future.

We have a goalkeeper on a pre-contract who is a free and we can take Rakip for £10m. That's an average of £5m.

Given that we are notorious for being hard up we're either going to have to be lucky with free transfers or Freedman is going to have to pull something special out of the bag because we don't have the players in the academy who can step up.

Staying up (which I think we'll manage) will only be part of the struggle because of poor planning.