Finn Claw II

Our team has a toxic atmosphere and in many respects the starting 11 hasn’t really played together. Page, Monga, Abdul are almost like new signings. Okoli, Hamza, Jakub, Thomas, Soumane, Skipp barely played last season. We will get better over the course of the season a few more outgoings and 2-3 good players in and we’ll be a good side.

Faes needs to go from both a wages and attitude perspective. He’s not as bad a defender as some make out but is stinking the place out.

£10m would be very impressive. Get him gone

He’ll look at the light switch but stop short of actually moving towards it. We’ll just have to wait for the lightbulb to run out

£12m - well done Rudders. If this helps us keep Bilal or simply gives us money to get a striker in then it is great business

I think most of us on here would prefer to see the likes of Soumane, Skipp, Winks, BDR and even Hamza go before him but it’s much harder to get rid of your overpaid dross. I’d love to keep Kasey and sell the above but it isn’t going to happen.

Want him to do well but Abdul, Mavi and Monga are all above him. I think he could improve but needs to play week in, week out and work out where his best position is. just means game time for BDR….

Play Page and Winks, Start Monga, Nelson and Faes - Mavi up top. 2-0 win and we’ll all be speaking about the ‘Preston anomaly’ and how we don’t need to sign anyone.

I get that everyone, fans, players, owners are frustrated and I even get that players do in part feed off the crowd but the difference is that fans pay money and the players get paid. Do your job to the best of your abilities and the fans will follow. That’s all that needs to be said.

For context, while we sold players last time Enzo was backed by the signings of: Winks, Coady, Mads,, Cannon, Mavididi, Abdul, Doyle, Yunus and Casadei. It’s not his team. Apart from playing Soumane he hasn’t done a lot wrong

Sell Needs to sell the last two before I give him his dues. Good to see interest though.

A brave choice would be Page and Winks in CM. i’d consider starting Daka just to press. CBs I’ve got no idea after the first two games!

We may need money but we also need points. Keeping Bilal is worth a 6 point deduction in my book. him and Winks (yes he hasn’t been a model pro) are who the team should be built around and both could go.

Faes, Vesty, Winks should all have been captain material but are not and at least two of those don’t want to be here. Souttar could well be a leader once the current lot are gone and he is fit but he probably won’t play. I’d be tempted with Ayew or just retiring the captain’s armband until we have someone who deserves it!

That’s never a real human. Yellow Trevorhill it is

I do think we are doing what the rules are intended for - I.e selling players and reducing the wage bill. You’d hope that merits a lenient punishment.

While PSR is important so to is reassessing where we are as a club and the fact that we simply can’t play inflated salaries anymore (we are not trying to break into the big 6). I think it’s as simple as a better balancing of the books - rather than being led solely by PSR. The players on 80k or so just need moving on.

I can believe Winks, Soumane and Daka as their wages last season but no idea if those will have reduced this year or not.

It’s widely reported that many players have wage reductions of 35% and up to 50% in their contracts. i’m assuming this covers all signings over the last two years plus contract renewals. For reference any player on £60k a 35% wage cut implies a salary of £39k. Based on this my list of high earners likely without wage reductions is: Ricardo Faes Justin (but assuming his Prem wage was reasonable) Kristiansen Soumane Daka Winks (if his contract didn’t have a relegation clause - I.e he is on less now than when he signed for us). Hamza and Vesty both signed new contracts in the last couple of years

All depends on attitude - didn’t like the ‘we miss you Enzo’ sign. On the fence with the staying at the training ground seems like him and Ruud were both unreasonable on that. Would much rather Soumane left on loan. happy for Winks to see out his contract - I’m not sure he’ll do better than us at the end of it but depends if he wants to play or fill a squad place.

Personally I’d rather Kristiansen (wages) and Woyo (no idea if he is any good) went. Ricardo, Thomas, Aluko, Hamza. Short on the left hand side of anything. If we have any faith in Aluko then cash in on Justin.

He’s a really really good keeper but still needs to prove it in the Prem and his injury history has to be a bit of a worry. Thought we might get £25m but a combination of so many keepers on the market and us going down has dented his price. Keen to see how Jacub develops going into the season as our number 1

Says a lot about Winks, Vesty, Faes, Skipp even Ayew that no one is really considering them as captian material. Skipp aside they are senior pros

Transfer bingo - who’s next: Justin Mads Bilal Ndiddi Kristianson Faes Soumane wouldn’t a full house be nice

About 8 more to go! Go on rudders get on a roll!