Assuming we renew Gana (not preference, I just think we will) and bin the rest of OOC players, sell/loan Keane (I know), Holgate (I KNOW), Maupay, and Onana and somehow persuade Jaz Braz to hang on another year, I reckon we need:
RB
CB
LB
CM x 2
AM
RF/RW
LF/LW
Yikes.
I'm sure the club will see Godfrey as cover right across the back line, so those 3 positions will probably necessitate 1 or 2 signings. Not ideal being so thin in CM if Gana is one of our only options; Ndidi would be an excellent signing, but if he's already being courted by better teams we can probably kiss it goodbye.
I'm gonna shut up now because I am depressed.
Need a Neville/Oviedo type signing that can step up short term in a few positions. A decent all rounder will play all year next season.
We won't be getting mega money for Onana, he hasn't excelled and with a few sides feeling the pinch of the P&S bullspit there'll be a lot more caution about.
Nominal fee Holgate, might be lucky to break even on Maupay, think Keane stays as backup because he wont get similar terms anywhere else, and
Branthwaite is a season to early, another 12 months and a crack at an international competition and we'd hold all the cards. It's not to be.
Patterson needs fixing one way or the other. I'd go hell for leather with RW the priority. That spot will determine how we set up next term, Cal-Lewin and Doucoure or Cal-Lewin and Beto. If it's for two up top as plan A then another super athlete to work alongside Gana to out work oppositions midfields.
To do any of this with cashflow affecting the club right now let alone in summer is a very bleak prospect.
'You'll never win anything with kids' - some twit* in the 90's
'You'll struggle to survive with half a squad topped up with kids' - some other tit in the 2020's.