Before insulting others whose opinions don't co-incide with yours there is sensible reasoning in the opinion that you are rubbishing.

You say that Sakho won't accept reduced terms as if you know him and his thinking but then you go on to say that it's madness to offer him a new contract as he is injured too often. Won't other clubs be aware of his injury record too or will they be stupid enough to offer him his current salary knowing that he will only play for half a season?

Likewise to replace Wickham with a younger Premier League quality striker is likely to cost far in excess of keeping him on for another year which is money that you yourself have indicated that we can't afford.

If Wickham stays injury free for the rest of the season and shows his fitness in the development squad games plus the odd cameo for the first team I think it could be very cost effective to keep him on

6 of them were/are very good signings. Dann and ledley weren't Holloway signings

was Pardew our worst man in the transfer market ?

Dougie was maybe the best ?

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

An overhaul is inevitable, it's just a matter of deciding the criteria that underlines it.
For one, it would be good to see a sensible wage structure in place. For example, bringing in Clyne who reportedly is on near £90k, keeping Meyer on the bench earning £100k a week, while his teammates earn 40k less, retaining the services of sicknote players and players who don't look interested - all can go.
The club should aim to bring the wage bill down along with the average age. I don't think it will be that painful a procedure.
Zaha needs to be built into the equation, and that means letting him go, we've been a one man team for far too long.
Probably a two or three season transformation with a new man at the helm.

Edited by southnorwoodhill (27 Mar 2021 8.41am)

Who cares if Sakho can’t find another club ? My only concern is that he is off our wage roll as soon as possible.

With regards to a Wickham how many false dawns have we had ? How many hundreds of thousands of pounds of wages have been wasted ? In my opinion thinking that he is a “cost effective” option really underlines why we are in the current situation with regards to the squad. We need to draw a line under Wickham and wish him well.

this sumer is going to be so interesting...

bearing in mind our last set of published account, without the AWB money we would have lost best part of £40, given covid lost revenue and spending on eze & ferguson, sorloth aside we could be looking at £60m loss these set of delayed accounts.

in my mind, i think anybody assuming we will spend £50m will be very disappointed.

i can see the majority of players given new contracts, mainly for amortisation reasons, but can see sakho, mccarthy, wickham, kelly & hennessey let go to save us approx £250k a week in wages.

we will sign 2 x youngsters & 2 x freebies to replace them.

i genuinely expect us to spend less than £20m this summer, and i am happy with that.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway