Putting on Football Manager head, trying to remain relatively realistic...
Definitely sold/released should be:
Howard (50k), Hibbert (30k), Osman (30k), Gibson (30k), Pienaar (50k)
- 10m a year saved in wages!
Likely sold/released should be:
McGeady (40k), Kone (40k)
- 4m a year saved in wages!
Of these players, we only really need to replace Howard (need a new starting keeper) and Kone (need better backup up front). The rest have not contributed at all, all season/for several years. If we sell Howard, McGeady and Kone we could bring in, say, a minimum of 5m in fees total.
Mirallas also could go let's not forget, so further money generated (easily 8m, and 2.5m wages saved).
We've then saved 16m in wages, and got 13m transfers, with loads of deadwood gone, and money to spend, plus further funds generated by getting rid of said players above.
We look at what we know we need:
- Goalkeeper
- Striker backup
Then also what we'd like to further strengthen the squad:
- Yarmolenko?
- Creative midfielder
- Right back cover
If Mr Moshiri is prepared to enable 30m in transfer funds, plus the 13m we generate, we can easily get a top goalkeeper, Yarmolenko and a creative midfielder from abroad, probably even that right back cover we need too.
In terms of wages saved and what would be spent on new players' wages coming in, we'd have saved 16m, Yarmolenko would surely get around 70k, similar for a top keeper (7m so far in wages), plus that creative midfielder taking it to just over 10m a year for the three.
Man, I wanna be a football manager!
lol
