What position do we need to prioritise in the summer?

Marvanelli

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Goalkeeper - Pears & Stojanovic look decent enough, however Meijas does worry me.
Centre backs - Harold, Fry, McNair, Shotton, Howson (if we play wingbacks), Friend (last priority)......if we lose Ayala I think we need to replace him otherwise we should have enough.
Full backs/wing backs - Friend, Shotton, Coulson, Johnson, Spence, Bola, Dijksteel - feel like we have adequate cover there.
Centre Mids - Howson, McNair, Wing, Saville, Clayton - again if we keep Howson, we should have enough.
Wingers/attacking mids - Tav, Johnson, Browne - I think we could do with 1 or 2 more. From what I've seen, I'd like us to sign Roberts (either full season loan or permanent). Morrison - jury is still out. But even so, I'd rather us sign a proven winger/flair for this division.
Forwards - Britt, Fletcher, Gestede....Can't see us keeping Nmecha and an injury to Fletcher/Britt just leaves us very threadbare up top.

Looking at all that, I think we need to prioritise the forward areas. It's no surprise we are the 2nd lowest scores in the division and only Fletcher is in double figures...with Wing being our joint second top scorer along side Britt on 6!!
 
Don’t forget Johnson and Shotton are also potentially leaving , I think Howson and Friend are gonna stay but think Ayala will be off aswell which will be a massive blow. Doubt we will get Harold back so I think we will need a centre half or 2
 
A new permanent CB is a must.

We need a left back if Woodgate
doesn't trust Bola, probably even if he does.
Coulson should be playing as a winger.

We need a new striker with Gestede and Nmecha leaving, more so as we should be trying to sell Assombalonga this summer.
 
Would be good to sign Gibson permanently and get back Roberts in on loan

if we could potentially have this as base it looks good to me and add in and around it

Pears

Fry
Ayala if he stays
Gibson

Spence
Howson
Saville
Coulson

Roberts if he comes back
Tav

Fletcher

then have the likes of McNair Wing Friend aswell and bring a 5/6 in
 
Sell Britt
Gestede free
Ayala probs off too
Clayton probs off also
Bola released
Browne loan out or sell
Shotton free

Hopefully Howson signs. Friend likely to also

CB X 2 if Ayala goes
LB as Coulson is not good enough (as yet) defensively.

RW x1
LW x 1
Playmaker x 1
ST x 2

Morrison and Roberts could fill 2 of the slots
 
Would love us to sign a Leadbitter type leader, when we went 2-1 up yesterday we needed someone like Leads to get a hold of that game .
 
Bola has years left on his contract, we'll not release him.

It has happened before, if all party’s agree I don’t see why not. We are in a position where we can’t financially afford to carry passengers and he will want to play i would think
 
It has happened before, if all party’s agree I don’t see why not. We are in a position where we can’t financially afford to carry passengers and he will want to play i would think

Maybe, we certainly did it with Guedioura, but I think he'll be given the opportunity to stake a claim in the summer and I doubt he's on that much.

I honestly hope we try to play Coulson as a winger next season, he'd good going forwards but he's a liability defensively.
 
A new CB is a must. Desperate for a bit more steel in midfield, way too lightweight at the minute. It would be good to keep Roberts for another year. We also need to strengthen up top. I imagine Britt will be off, and Fletcher and gestede just aren't up to it imo if we want to be challenging.
 
A new CB is a must. Desperate for a bit more steel in midfield, way too lightweight at the minute. It would be good to keep Roberts for another year. We also need to strengthen up top. I imagine Britt will be off, and Fletcher and gestede just aren't up to it imo if we want to be challenging.
Gestedes out of contract thank ****
 
I think we'll need another LB, DM, no10 and ST.

If Morrison does well from now until the end of the season he could be answer playing as a no10 but the jury is still out.

..........................Pears............................

Spence........Ayala.........Gibson......????

.....................????...........McNair............

Robert's................????...............Coulson

............................????.............................
 
Bola has years left on his contract, we'll not release him.
cant we just give him away for free. i dont mean like a transfer 'free', i mean literally just give him away like a sideboard you no longer want. can you put footballers on Gumtree?
 
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