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GK I can’t see any way in which we keep Ramsdale and I would imagine we could get his release clause of £25m paid. Lumley is out of contract and I suspect he will want first team football so I expect him to leave. I would personally let McCarthy go, use Ollie Wright as our NO 3 and use Bazunu as our NO2. Then try and sign someone like Travers from Bournemouth or see if we can get Filip Jörgensen on loan from Chelsea as part of a potential Ramsdale deal. RB Obviously KWP is off and it looks like we could get around £12m for Sugawara, which would only leave Bree which is fine although he would still be a backup for me. We would obviously need a new RB like Milan van Ewijk if Coventry don't go up. LB I suspect that Wellington may well want out and due to the interest from Europe when he signed for us I suspect we may be able to get a reasonable fee or £5-7 million. I believe Taylor didn’t renew his contract with Burnley because he wanted prem football so I would be surprised if he is still here come the end of summer. Larios will almost certainly go out on loan somewhere. So we will need a new LB to compete with Manning. Someone like Alfie Doughty may be achievable for £6-8 million, even more so if Luton go down. CB I believe TBH will go for around £25m ish. I believe Wood is pretty awful so I would be happy if we sold him, even more so if we got or money back. We will let ABK go for a nominal fee to get him off the books. I don’t believe Stephens or Bednerak will leave this year and if you add Edwards to the mix we have a decent basis to build. I’d add a new CB to start with Edwards and keep Bednerak and Stephens as backups with Sanda as 5th choice. CM I believe I read somewhere that Aribo wanted out so sell him to Turkey for £6m ish. If we can keep Downes and Charles that is a nice start. Id add a no nonsense defensive midfielder to the mix as well. With Smallbone we should be ok. Tyler Morton would be a handy addition if any of the above left. AM If we can keep Fernandes then he will definitely be the star of the championship, but on the assumption that Lallana will retire / move more into coaching, then we need a backup – Maybe Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh could fill that role? Or Windass? Wingers I suspect we may look to see Sulamana and I suspect we may get £12-15m for him. I’d be surprised if Edoze was still here after his taste of first team football in Europe. I think we need to potentially do better than Fraser and we will probably sell Dibling for the £50m range. Armstrong will return to fill the RW/Inside forward roll We will then have a few voids to fill – Tom Fellows at WBA could be a nice addition, Doak and Borja Saiz may be ambitious but they would be a statement. Strikers Tall Paul will go for around £5m, hopefully Leeds will come back with a £15m offer for Archer and hopefully Sheffield United will take BBD for £10m. Stewart could be handy if fit for more than 5 minutes but not someone we can rely on, so he would be the 3rd choice. If Ings is free and we can afford his wages I would certainly take him as our back up. For our first choice we need a big target man – The Wycombe Striker Richard Kone could be quite handy.

Alex McCarthy, Stu and Che will leave at the end of the season when their contracts expire. If we don’t go up, we will have no chance of signing THB and Downes, I suspect Brooks will have prem suiters and I doubt we could afford Fraser’s salary. I suspect that Rothwell is the only loanee that we would have a chance of signing permanently. KWP will certainly be off this summer regardless of if we promoted due to his contract situation. Sule will go out on loan as we won’t find anyone willing to pay the price we are asking. Juventus will likely get Charlie on another loan. I suspect that Bednerak will want to leave and Mara I suspect will push for a move for more consistent gametime. I would imagine that we might look to offload Aribo due to his high wages, same with our loanees like Lyanco, Tall Paul and Perraud That leaves us with the below squad: GK: Baz, Lumley, Lis FB: Bree, Manning, Larios, Meghoma CB: Stephens, Lawrence CM: Smallbone, Charles AM: Edozie, SAA, Dibbling F: Stewart, A.Armstrong, Ballard