Interesting
On a separate subject FOff Arsenal - graceless bunch of tawts

Bye then no big loss.

Looked a good player since mid - january

£10 million and he can go….

Will be one of our top earners and although he's a decent utility player down our right hand side, not sure he's good enough in any one position that we absolutely need to keep him.

We desperately need a right back though so hope we can get some money and invest in a better or at least cheaper first choice fullback.

This season is only the second time he has made it to 20 appearances. The reality is he hasn't played a lot of football. I'm sure he would benefit massively from playing 40+ games in the championship next season and come back even stronger

Yessss

My personal opinion is he nowhere near EPL level. Not a great defender, offers very little going forward and doesn't seem to make good use of his size. League One player at best, hope we can get his wages off the books.

What is meant by no relegation clause though?
Maybe there's no agreed value, that once met we'd be obliged to sell, as per Delap's contract, but will he remain on his Premier League weekly wage when playing in the Championship?
If we have players that we could not get to agree salary reductions upon relegation clauses, we may well be open to letting them go.

some people could be a lot wiser with their comments

If he can play the way he has been last several games, it'd be a shame to lose him. No doubt there'll be some fans on here wholl slate him bcse of his red card on saturday, but these things happen. Of course it wasn't clever to make that challenge when on a yellow card, but sometimes it's just instinct. Players 1st instinct is to stop the player getting away, and only think about what theyve done after making the challenge. He's not the 1st to do it. Won't be the last neither. Guess it could depend on whether ogbene and burns are gonna be fit at start of next season, as to whether we'd be willing to let him go anyway.

Just so I'm clear, my comments relate to his ability, as shown over the course of the season, not to do with his red card vs. Newcastle. He does seem to cover a bit of ground up and down the left side, but defends poorly, gives the ball away often, and a very high percentage of his successful passes are backwards or square.

Cash in on Burns first surely.

I dont know what others think but we have always been good in defense when O'Shea, Woolfenden, Burgess and Greaves play together, thought Greaves was great vs at Newcastle, wouldn't mind if they were back four but won't be, new LB for Davis, think if Tunazabe stays, H Clarke good cover at RB in Championship.
I'm not sure we need too many in the door aside midfield and a striker or 2 if Delap goes. Is it 2 every position.
Palmer/Muric
Tunazabe/H Clarke/New RB
Townsend/New LB
O'Shea/Johnson
Greaves/Woolfenden
Morsy/New mid
Humphries/New mid
Szmodics/Chaplin
J Clarke/Jaden/Broadhead
Hutchinson/Ogbene
Hirst/New Striker x2
That's around 6 New signings

Broadhead or Chaplin might go as both out of contract in 26 as is Walton, Burns, Taylor, Morsy, Hirst

I think Walton sold
Burns sold
Davis Sold
Al Hamadi Sold
Harness Sold
J Taylor -Sold
Baggott loaned
Delap sold (maybe)

They are the most likely, Hirst will get new deal I'd imagine but the rest will be a good profit on all.

I think we might play 4-4-2 next season with Dyche.

Will be very good in the championship! After a poor start has really picked up!

Post about Johnson, keep comments on topic!!

If Fulham make a serious offer he is likely to go. Make a handy profit as we got him on a free. I would have him here in Championship but at end of the day it's down to him. If they offer him a decent contract he'll go.

Will comfortably be our best RB/RWB next season. Keep unless the offer really is 'big'.

joke report, but if true off load him asap

I will drive him useless in the extreme should never have signed him in the first place total liability

Keep him, he will be good in the Championship.
I wouldn't sell anyone just yet.

The will be no lose id drive him their myself terrible signing having a few good games here and their doesn't make him a good signing so cash in and get someone 10 times better

Hi @leejames. I would imagine that some of the decision making will be related to economics and balanced with the football side of things. For example any wage differential between Burns and Johnson compared with the income that could be achieved by selling them.
I am not expert enough to compare the two players abilities, but I imagine the club have access to sophisticated data that could compare ability and then the decision makers can look across the economics of wages and potential sale income . It sounds really boring, I know, but I cant imagine a proper football business would not be looking at many variable inputs like these in their decision making.
Cheers

JD's contract at Chesterfield is up at the end of the season!

I expect a very quiet transfer window this time. We have a very good squad and players out on loan who may return. There maybe some outgoing but I don't expect us to sign new players other than maybe replacements for any we sell.

Blues1

Think it also called passion as he trying hard to help Town

Can see Ipswich making many changes…..Jan transfer window depending on where Town are in the league could see some leave to balance the books

Leejames, cannot for the life of me see your reasoning for selling Davis. I get that he has not had a great season in Prem but he was arguably the best left back in Championship last season.