Have we got any to spend in January? Is it all tied up in player wages or previous buys?

Having witnessed last nights shambles its clear we've got some players that are either not good enough for the squad or quite frankly not prepared to make the effort and try to impress for a return to the first team.

We can't keep relying on our 1st XI , once injuries set in there is clearly not much quality to pick from.

Who is supposed be scouting for us these days? because quite clearly Sorloth and Ayew are not good enough. Meyer produces flashes but in all fairness is not consistent enough and on last nights evidence loses the ball too much in possession...

Riedewald could well leave, potentially releasing £6-8m.

Vive le Roy!

Puncheon might be another possibility to add to Riedewald.
Andros still has that better player within him, need to prize it out of him again!
Sorloth loan would be a good idea but with the FA cup coming we still need striker back up even though he is not currently ideally what we would want at the club.

Unfortunately, we have some terrible players collecting fat wage packets, e.g. Schlupp on 50k+ per week. There is no way we're going to shift these to other clubs without taking a massive loss and also paying some sort of wage contribution, because these players aren't going to accept offers of wages befitting their ability. And so we're stuck with a pretty thin, but hugely expensive squad, that we can't really refurbish because we're not going to be able to make any player sales.

Good news is that we can send Ayew back and get in one or two loan players come January. We'll probably get another donkey, but I suppose law of averages means we'll eventually find someone useful if we keep sticking our hand in...

Who is going to any of those figures? Sorloth -no chance, Riedewald- We paid £8m, surely hes depreciated during his time with us. Possibly Schlupp an established PL player, somehow. Only my opinion

That'd be more believable if similar sized clubs (and smaller) were continually dining out on that excuse the way Parish does.

Bexley Dave

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