Drain the Swamp

Given the fact our current strikers couldn't score on Epstein Island with $4bn and a vat of fake tan, he'd better be prolific.

Depends who's interested. He eats up this division but who needs a new GK?

But his value increases playing week on week in the Championship in a way it doesn't with him sat on the bench in the Prem.

Good in theory but I worry about confidence. He was ridiculously good for a season and a half, verging on heir to Schmeichel good, until his injury but came back pretty poor after doing his groin in and was atrocious in his first couple of games at West Ham, where he can't get a sniff now. £20m was a great deal for us. Now he's clearly a far, far better keeper than Ward but let's not forget that he looked a pretty decent deputy, at least in cup games, until he had a few stinkers when unexpectedly promoted to No. 1 and ended up as cannon fodder simply because he couldn't be easily replaced, and he's never recovered from it. I'd welcome him back with caution. Stolarczyk has been bad, Begovic is ending his career and I can only assume that Veites couldn't catch clap in a brothel given he can't get ahead of either of them.

He wants to escape the swamp. Not all of these sales will be voluntary, and I doubt Nelson will want to be here either.

We don't need anything pretty. Just someone who knows how to sort out a defence and make a team hard to beat. Grind out boring 0-0 draws and shithouse the odd 1-0 until we have a clear out and then rebuild with players who want to be here. Rowett might be that guy on a shortish contract. Vitor Pereira as well; he absolutely transformed that Wolves team, from one that looked as wretchedly inept as us to one that couldn't stop winning for a good few weeks, practically overnight. Yes, it all went tits up this season but how much of that was his fault? And if it all goes tits again, then it'll be less costly to get rid if he's only on an 18-month contract.

Desperately needed and actually a decent choice. The striker is the most important thing now.

Appoint Rowett, Pereira or Skubala (outside shot) on an 18-month contract with the remit of keeping us up next year and building a young, new hungry team next season full of youth products. This season is gone. 21st would be a good outcome. Then the summer will see us need a new team. Begovic, Ricardo, Vestegaard, Daka, Ayew, Fatawu, Monga, Winks, Faes and El-Khannouss will all be gone at minimum. It presents an opportunity in that Vestegaard, Monga, El-Khannouss and Fatawu will bring in money and there will be huge wages off the books. The swamp will be drained in terms of playing staff at least.