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Playing devils advocate, he’s not going to say to Ashton ‘I don’t want to look at the plans because I’ll probably be off in the summer’ is he?
For what it’s worth I don’t think he’ll go and hopefully we’ll bump his contract up and increase the buy out clause but Brighton will be tempting for him, effectively where we want to be in 2-4 years time
From this squad: Hladky Walton* Slicker Clarke Davis Tuanzebe* Edmundson Woolfenden Burgess* Baggott Morsy Taylor Luongo Humphreys Burns Chaplin Harness Broadhead Ladapo, Al-Hamadi Hirst
To something like this: Plus 1, Hladky Slicker (new first choice GK) Plus 2, Clarke Davis (new first choice rb, backup lb) Plus 1, Tuanzebe Woolfenden Burgess Plus 2, Morsy Taylor Luongo (Morsy eventual replacement, Luongo eventual replacement) Plus 3, Burns Chaplin Broadhead (hutch hopefully, Sarmiento or alternative, one more) Plus 1, Al-Hamadi Hirst (new first choice striker with prem experience)
The Wrexham thing is actually quite interesting isn’t it? They’re going to have one of the biggest budgets in league one and will be hoping to attract players ready for the championship in much the same way we did. If they can do that then once they get into the championship they’ll be able to outspend most teams in the league outside of the parachute payment clubs due to their massive sponsorship deals and the money the Disney series brings in. If the owners stick with it I think we’ll see them in the premier league within 3-4 years
Yes please, exactly the kind of player we should be looking at. Buy him for £3-5million, if McKenna can help him to continue his trajectory we’ve got a £20million+ player on our hands. The kind of chaotic player who would earn us points over the season by coming on and making things happen.
Plus, one of our biggest strengths has been consistency. Bringing in someone who is integrated into the group, knows the set up and can contribute instantly is so important.
Flood lights will be the big one I think. Outside of that, drug testing facilities, VAR facilities, additional broadcasting space, additional away fan allocation so may need to look at changing segregation, there’s apparently a second storey going on top of the security space above the tunnel which will be a major job. Think it’ll be a busy summer between this and the works at the training ground!
It’ll be another evolution of our squad this window, same as it has been in our previous few windows, but to a larger extent than before.
Keeping hold of Sarmiento and Hutchinson will improve our permanent squad but with the benefit of providing consistency in personnel and having players who can hit the ground running.
I agree that a lot of the players deserve the chance to call themselves premier league players and I’m sure that they will but it’ll just mean some of the first team players moving to squad players rather than starting every week.
Sarmiento, Hutchinson and 4-5 more players (including two loans if Hutchinson and Sarmiento can be brought in permanently)
I think it’s got united at home written all over it, PR will be rocking, opportunity for an upset with KMK outwitting whoever’s in the dugout for united
10000%, he’s raw but got all the key ingredients to be a really good player, and having that consistency next season is going to be key. There’s going to be plenty of new faces but if we can hold onto Sarmiento and hutch they’ll be ready to hit the ground running
Massive step, but I’d hate to see this team dismantled. The players who have got us here deserve the chance to say they’re premier league players, even if a fair chunk of them might be squad players. I would hope we’d continue the model we’ve adopted in looking for the very best young talent who can be improved by McKenna. 6/7 quality young players, a mixture of loans and permanents on not too crazy wages so if we do go down we can keep the squad and bounce back up. Sarmiento on a permanent, Hutchinson back on loan then we need 5 more high quality youngsters to move the squad forward.
This is ridiculous isn’t it? Three changes to the starting 11 from Barnsley last year, one of which was on the bench anyway. Only two new players in the starting 11 and we’ve gone from securing promotion from league one to having the chance to secure promotion to the premier league. It’s crazy how much McKenna has improved every member of this squad.
Cracking game that. Your line up is practically the same vs Barnsley when you were in league one. Absolutely mental what you're achieving pic.twitter.com/fPB0vL1Vs1
This. I think the club know that they’ll sell out pretty much all home games if we continue our current form into next season so there’s more value in them reducing the number of season tickets and having more general sale tickets for each game. Even if 1% of people don’t renew, just can’t see them releasing these. Also if we’re in the prem don’t we have to give a higher percentage to away fans?
I’m with you on that one. I think if it wasn’t for Clarke’s injury he would be starting ahead of Tuanzebe, whose lack of passing ability completely isolated Omari today. Half decent defender but not good enough on the ball for me
Same architect, similar size and set up to Bristol’s training centre from the looks of things. I’m sure MA and KMK will put their twist on it to make it even better but looks like a massive massive upgrade to what they’re working with now!
If it’s within the next couple of year I would imagine they’re looking at between £80-£100 million if we’re assuming they’re going to go all out and include new offices, changing rooms, conference facilities, restaurants etc. Cost of materials has massively increased and this would be a very sizeable project. Fingers crossed they ensure the main contractor uses plenty of local contractors to further help the town.
Taken a lad worth £6million who hadn’t played men’s football and turned him into a £20million player in one season. Effectively earning Chelsea £14million alongside paying a big chunk of his wages. He’s also massively contributed to the success of our season so it’s win win for all parties involved but teams will surely be falling over themselves to send their best young players to us next season (assuming KMK is still with us).
I’d much rather see them out of the playoff picture if that’s where we end up. I wouldn’t be anywhere near as concerned about facing Leicester or Southampton in the playoffs as I would Leeds. They’ve got an air of confidence / arrogance about them and, to me, are the best team out of the three relegated clubs by a long way.
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