I'm already thinking about what our team will be next season in the championship. I think if we can even keep 2 thirds of them then we will easily bounce straight back up.
Sell Richarlison, dcl, pickford, mina to fund the deficit of getting relegated. Sign a good up and coming striker with potential to lead the line and I think we could take that division by storm and build for the future.
We are Leeds, it's written all over us. We've over spent on disinterested mercenaries and the turkeys are coming home to roost now. Relegation will be an absolute disaster financially, all our best players will be snapped up at bargain basement prices and we will be left trying to manage the wages of the garbage that will be even more disinterested in the Championship.
We will be waiting for those contracts to expire before we can try to do business properly again. The danger is we just become a talent factory like Leeds too and that players like Anthony Gordon are just snatched away from us every season by Premier League teams as we are desperate for the money and just can't offer those talented players the prestige of top flight football.
I'm trying to find some positivity and the only ray of sunshine is Anthony Gordon, it still proves we are capable of producing home grown talent and that will be vital as our financial predicament plays out. Should we stay up then hopefully this internal enquire concludes that we should stop trying to sign Iwobi and Dele Alli type players on stupendous contracts. We need to cut our cloth accordingly and I'd have loved that Ryan Fraser who went to Newcastle. I like David Brooks at Bournemouth too.
I think the signing of Sandro was the real big indicator of our problems, that we had to offer someone quadruple their wages to convince them to sign. If the player needs that kind of incentive rather than a moderate pay rise and the pride and privilege of wearing the shirt then they're the wrong player. Tim Cahill would have taken a pay cut to play Premier League football
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