It's why I see Dyche as the best option if he wants to come. We may lose one or 2 of our star players and we probaly wont replace them with the same quality. The challenge is to upgrade the overall quality of the squad on a tight budget.

In other words a better team but less star players. Besides even if Wilf stays we should not overly rely on him.

Dyche has proven that at Burnley.

Edited by Badger11 (12 Apr 2021 8.35am)

One more point

Bit of a magic beanstalk business plan.
- We have to make sure we have a core of a side. Once our players find out they wont get a better deal elsewhere many will stay to save the cost of moving.
- No clubs have any money to sign our players, let alone pay big fees
- There's no guarantee new signings will be any better than the current lot.

We'll probably see a small investment in the summer again. Then continued small investments for a number of season whilst they try and cover this seasons losses. A repeat of the situation after Allardyce, De Boer and Hodgson spent £85m in two transfer windows.

A strategy of keeping what we have and investing £20m into a marquee signing each summer would be better than making a load of cheap squad player signings on bigger wages.

Edited by jeeagles (12 Apr 2021 10.02am)

They can’t play forever mate. They’re already old and slow and that’s worsening. One player per season isn’t enough.

There’s many players within an age bracket of a few years, so several players born in the same year over several years.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (12 Apr 2021 10.40am)

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I don't think we can let them all go - some have to stay. There's a lot of players out of contract elsewhere, but they're not that good...

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The list above is inaccurate e.g. it shows Schlupp on it. However, there's very few players who look mid-table Prem quality who aren't 30+ years old looking for a final pay day. I don't realistically see how we could let 10+ players go, and get enough players in to get a sufficient squad size without spending close to £100m in transfer fees. We'd have to be first choice for every out of contract player we're in for.

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We would still have Butland, Riedewald, Ayew, McArthur, Tomkins, Ferguson and a few decent young players on our books

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in the report it said we only had £58m in cash reserves due to a £30m loan we had taken out.

headlines for me are up to last years accounts (if i remember correctly) we had actually broken even over our tenure in the PL.

if it had not been for AWB sale last year would have been £40m loss, so £60 this year factors in covid losses.

we could easily clear £10m a year in wages this summer without losing wilf.

i really, really want him to stay his whole career but can see the £50 & additional £6.5m off the wage bill being attractive to the americans.

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