The thing is, you don't need to spend fortunes and if we can keep the core of our squad together, we don't need to sign too many players either. Defensively we will need some work, but ultimately we have been less than the sum of our parts this season.Whoever comes in, touch wood, will hopefully by the time the window shuts, have Chester, Jedinak, Grealish and Kodjia running up the spine of the side. With some more pace and attacking intent surrounding that it ought to be a very good side again.
Quote from: Ads on May 29, 2018, 10:37:46 AMThe thing is, you don't need to spend fortunes and if we can keep the core of our squad together, we don't need to sign too many players either. Defensively we will need some work, but ultimately we have been less than the sum of our parts this season.Whoever comes in, touch wood, will hopefully by the time the window shuts, have Chester, Jedinak, Grealish and Kodjia running up the spine of the side. With some more pace and attacking intent surrounding that it ought to be a very good side again. We played less than the sum of our parts but we still accumulated 80 + points.I really can't see us getting close to that next season and you have no chance of going up automatically if you don't get past 80 points.So play offs at best which everyone loves now of course. One day we'll finally have an 11 that will play a great game in a major final at Wembley but the much lauded been it, seen it 11 couldn't.I'd personally let go of SB, get in Dean Smith,tell him he has a season to reconstruct the team and get us in shape (as SB did in 16/17), tell him not to worry about dissent from the Holte End if we draw 1-1 at home to Forest and let him get on with things.He's had two top 10 finishes with Brentford so the guy can manage at this level. Anyone who expects us to go up next season (automatically) will be a bit bonkers as too much work to do. We can be in the mix for top 6 if we sign well.
Chelts seems confident he's going. I do feel a new approach is needed. We've tried to sledgehammer our way out, got close, but now a bit of precision is required.
According to one of the papers yesterday Jedinak is on 45k a week and Lansbury 35k a week.If Henri can somehow wrangle 35k a week when I don't think he's played a single minute of premier league football in his career then I imagine Hourihane wouldn't be far off that. If he isn't he needs to sack his agent.Then you factor in players dropping down from the prem like AEM and Whelan.As much as I'm trying to put a better spin on things we are in a bit of a hole with yet again the wage bill compared to what we're turning over. We're paying our squad players not far off what the squad players at Spurs are getting.Either we let Steve Bruce get on with it to sort out his own mess of putting together an ageing expensive squad or we gave that as the main reason for mutually consenting his deal.Of course that will have to be another manager we pay off so would that go against us on FFP?