Contract situation end of 22-23 season - help?

[robbiez666]

Our prospects of having a competitive squad may improve if Dozy actually takes over and is prepared to invest more than simply the PL income.

the guy can't prove he has any money at the moment so I doubt you'd be seeing much outside of the EPL money!

 

[FinBlade]

Looks like too big and expensive to get so many Prem ready players in, so maybe it's better to stay in Championship one more year or so..

 

[Revolution]

I seem to be in the minority here, but I am quite relaxed about this. The majority of the players going out of contract are not players I would want in the Championship, yet alone the PL, next season.

 

[AnstonBlade1]

Most of if not all should be released, IF we go up we need better players than that lot for the prem. Fleck, Norwood, Sharp, Stevens, Robinson no where near good enough.

 

[GymClassHero]

Most of if not all should be released, IF we go up we need better players than that lot for the prem. Fleck, Norwood, Sharp, Stevens, Robinson no where near good enough.

I'd keep all of those except Stevens. Sharp more so for his dressing room influence. Fleck and Norwood are more than capable of being squad players and Robinson has had a good season.

To replace all of these players will be extremely costly. We need to invest in upgrades if we get promoted, and then look to build on our squad depth if we can stay up.

 

[AnstonBlade1]

IF we go up we need to move on from those players, sadly there are no where near premier league level we need a fresh start.

 

[Bladesince59]

Complete rebuild

 

[Sheffsteel]

Looks like too big and expensive to get so many Prem ready players in, so maybe it's better to stay in Championship one more year or so..

Not sure if you're being sarcastic.

The realiity is....fail to be promoted and we then need to radically change the team by getting rid of virtually all our best players and starting again from scratch.
So fail to be promoted and we've zero chance of being promoted for a long time....in fact I'd say they would be more chance of relegation next season.

This is why promotion is so important this season...it's the crossroads and one of our most important seasons ever.
If we are prompted then the worse case scenario is we try to buy the best talent from the Championship almost accepting relegation but being prepared to mount a strong promotion challenge again.

 

[FinBlade]

Not sure if you're being sarcastic.

Ye, tried to be fun..

 

[Tom Bott]

Most of if not all should be released, IF we go up we need better players than that lot for the prem.

New squad, all at once, worked out well for Florist and Fulham.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I seem to be in the minority here, but I am quite relaxed about this. The majority of the players going out of contract are not players I would want in the Championship, yet alone the PL, next season.

Exactly. The problem has been the lack of additions to the squad.

Everyone knows that but for some reason have forgotten why.

 

[100% part time blade]

Cast your mind back to 2019 and how few new signings we needed to make in order to finish 9th.
Now think about starting in the PL with the current squad ...
It is unlikely that the PL income alone will produce a squad capable of avoiding relegation.
To survive , we need a buyer who will invest some of his own dosh , at least initially , with which targets can be acquired , leaving the PL income to cover wages.
The Prince knows this , which is why he's selling - I hope someone has explained it to Dozy.

Maybe. But if we’re saying what we need to do is … spend more money than the club is generating in revenue, then there could also be problems ahead down that road. Re-investing what the club makes is clearly good sense, but spending more than we have may not be so wise.
It’s OK if you’re spending the wealth of an oil-rich nation with motives more to do with building international reputations rather than seeing any return on your cash. However, if you’re an inexperienced club owner thinking ‘maybe I’ll buy a football club’, then spending way beyond your balance sheet might not be the best first move.

 

[Sean Thornton]

This.

The lack of permanent signings in the last 3 windows (outside of Davies and Anel) was always going to come back and bit us.

We'll end up offering contract to players we probably wouldn't do otherwise, just because of the sheer amount of new players we need to sign. And if we get promoted the youngsters will not be able to step up.

We're in this situation because of the really poor financial management when we were in the EPL.

Instead of just parroting “poor financial management” why not put some meat on the bones of your argument.

Letting the manager spend the money made available to him on players that didn’t work? After presumably setting a budget for season 2 and not building in something for a pandemic no one knew about. The loss of income arising from that despite wages costs and fees still needing to be paid? What would you suggest we should have done differently? Not borrowed, how would you have paid the bills?

His “crime” is that despite the money he has put into the club, he didn’t have enough in the event of a season 1 or 2 relegation. Probably should have put the club up for sale sooner, but he certainly wasn’t helped by a manager who looked like he thought a wage rise might solve his inability to stop the on field rot.

Even medium term, the thought of ongoing PL money must have been very attractive to him. Like McCabe before him, he couldn’t fund it to the required level in the event of failure.

Anyway, the game…..

 

[Steve.C]

Yeah don’t worry I’m sure the Blades have got players lined up for prem season.

1- fods
2 Baldock/ bogle
3-
4 anel
5 egan
6-

7-
8 berg
11-

9 -
10nydieeeeee

Five openings for prem class players.
Tough tackling midfield
MGW ( player of his Ilk) in the other role
We really could do with a Billy style GOALSCORER.
Left back and centre back Prem class would then give us a good defence.

Egan and Wes need challenging. Let’s hope we go up to build a decent Championship side for 24/25

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

I thought we tried the spending big (for us) bit last time we were up there, and look how that turned out......

Anybody can spend money, it's easy, it's getting at least good value for it that's hard.........

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

I thought we tried the spending big (for us) bit last time we were up there, and look how that turned out......

Anybody can spend money, it's easy, it's getting at least good value for it that's hard.........

Wilders gone

 

[bakeblade]

It's a terrible situation we've got ourselves in.

I suspect, if we don't go up, almost all will be offered a new contract. Maybe not Sharp and Stevens, but everyone else. We then have the problem of losing Ndiaye, Berge, Anel and having to replace them with not a lot of money. At least a few of the youngsters should be able to step up (Jebbo, Osula, Arblaster, Amissah, Boyes)

If we do go up, I suspect we'll be offering a surprising number a new contract as well, given the amount we need to replace. Going up will likely mean that none of the kids, outside of maybe Jebbo, will be able to step up.

There's another huge issue as well, given how many players have a contract that runs out in 2024. We'll need to try and tie those down as well, so lots of pressure on the money we'll have. It's going to be hard to keep some of them if we don't go up and I doubt some will sign a new contract.

The list is quite worrying:

Baldock
Lowe
Bogle
RND
Egan
Berge
Ndiaye

Several of those could easily be poached.

The sheer number of changes needed are scary.

-----------------------------------------GK/GK
------Furious/Bogle-----Anel/RCB-----Egan/CB-----RND/LCB------LWB/Lowe
-----------------------------Berge/CM-------------CM/CM
------------------------------------------CM/CM
----------------------------Ndiaye/Brewster----------McBurnie/Jebbo

I can see John Eggan being poached!!

 

[Snowflake]

Wouldn't mind Lowe being poached.

Is someone “egging” you on ?

 

[Snowflake]

New squad, all at once, worked out well for Florist and Fulham.

Burnley seem to be ok this season having done exactly that.
I know it’s not the Premiership but to succeed so well here shows it can be done.
We could create a top Championship side for 2024/25 by doing it in the Premiership and accepting relegation, much as Fulham have done and they seem fine now.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Is someone “egging” you on ?

 

[Champagneblade]

Egan and Wes need challenging. Let’s hope we go up to build a decent Championship side for 24/25

I'd see RND in there to be honest.

But I also think we need a new no 1.

 

[blade67]

Still a bit early for this topic to take over but we've a hell of a lot of work to do over the Summer to put a Premier league squad together.

By my reckoning, we'll have 11 senior professionals signed as of June 30th of whom only 1 is a midfielder.

We have 3/4 others where we will probably take the year option we have.

There are probably 3 more that will be offered new deals, leaving around 10/12 new signings needed to get sufficient numbers for a Premier League squad.

We then have another 13 players who will out of contract at the end of next year that have to be dealt with during 2023/24.

 

[Snowflake]

Still a bit early for this topic to take over but we've a hell of a lot of work to do over the Summer to put a Premier league squad together.

By my reckoning, we'll have 11 senior professionals signed as of June 30th of whom only 1 is a midfielder.

We have 3/4 others where we will probably take the year option we have.

There are probably 3 more that will be offered new deals, leaving around 10/12 new signings needed to get sufficient numbers for a Premier League squad.

We then have another 13 players who will out of contract at the end of next year that have to be dealt with during 2023/24.

I don’t follow the sums. 11 plus 3/4 plus 3 is 17/18, so we need 6/7 new players, which is probably the most realistically we can find/afford.
If they are better than what we have released we can have a go at staying up.

 

[blade67]

I don’t follow the sums. 11 plus 3/4 plus 3 is 17/18, so we need 6/7 new players, which is probably the most realistically we can find/afford.
If they are better than what we have released we can have a go at staying up.

24 players is a very thin squad for a premier league club. Especially when it would include a couple of players heading towards the end of their career and a couple like Jebbison at the start of theirs. I'm also assuming that no contracted players leave, which might be a bit optimistic. Certainly it's going to be busy compared to the last few when we've done virtually no business at all.

 

[10-0 win]

Obiously there's a plan laid. Some old recontracted,some new and some borrowed. Hopefully early business to gel for a new atempt at P.L.