What Is The Clubs Transfer Strategy

[zicorice]

Just done a quick count and from your list there are 12 players that are still contracted for next season and beyond that you have labelled as release or only good enough as back up. Realistically moving on most of those will be difficult/ impossible (many over 30years) and leaves us with a large and expensive bomb squad if they wont be used. Also means bringing in more will be difficult due to the current wages we are committed to. All of which some us warned about last summer.

Yeah I know but that is what is required to improve the team. I know you like to rag on the summer business but 6 of those signings we can immediately release along with a few others we can finally get away from. We're left with Blackett, Arter, Fred that we'd want rid of, the rest still have some value, even just as squad fillers. Remember most of these signings were made on the cheap too. 

Obviously doesn't correct from previous errors in transfers that were also made by the same people. Also, it's not great that from a big list of signings in the summer only one look capable of being a starter in a promotion team.

I stick by it though, if we want to go up this is the option. If we want to tread water for years and gradually wait for contracts to expire, whilst blooding youth, that's an option too, just makes it unlikely for us to be any better than midtable. We just don't have much quality here right now. I don't mind which we do really but being in the same league midtable over and over is pretty boring.

The Post have an article up.  11 out of contract.  This year.

A Summer window with the chance to bring that quality in?

SA.

Shedding 11 contracted players (does this include loanees?) Would only reduce our squad to roughly sensible size, especially  considering  the return of Gabriel, Johnson, Preston and the other young RB whose name escapes me. One RB probably goes out on loan again at least. Good squad players who can jump in and do a decent job straight away are important but shouldnt be on big wage in my view. 

Maybe (and I'm trying to be optimistic here) some of our summer signings will come good. Fred and Colback both got injured (Jack was just starting to show signs of getting back on track to the player we all know he is or was), Taylor has shown something up top, but needs to show more.  

Next season should not be as condensed so big (giant) squad should not be as useful...just more deadwood on the sidelines. 

None in Jan and one or two real quality additions in bound would do me. Possibly an experienced keeper on a short contract to challenge Brice, especially if he doesn't recover his form soon. (Samba will come good again, all young keepers have this  blip, mostly after first couple of seasons as a 1st choice).

We definitely have far too many players though.