Select Your MUST KEEP players in a close season of SALES required by budget shortfall

[pollster]

Had a look this morning for any sites with accurate transfer fees and or values.
There was nothing I saw that made any sense.
Placed minimum fee values based on
1 Fees paid - valid or not in my eyes
2. Inability of Wilder to extract good fees
eg No 1 target of Leeds Bogle £6m
No 1 internally rated graduate of academy Will Osula £10 million
Tommy Cannon £12 million
3. Apparent imbecility of COH in all things football plus their history
eg Souza £12 million half his value in a hurry at the start of last close season.
They are NOT my evaluations but my impression of how other people may see them in the circumstances
AND THE BEST WE AS FANS CAN EXPECT
Hopefully not missed anybody off of any value who may go (Marsh Frickleton? etc)
eg Soumare will not be bought regardless of money - we do not have any money.

 

[Valleyblade]

Must keep.

I mean the truth is none of them are must keep, depending on who you get in to replace them for the same or less money.

And that's the trick.

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

Tanganga !!!!

 

[Swannyblade]

I've gone for Bamford & Riedewald because we had a glimpse of life without them at the beginning of last season and it was not pretty!
Also gone for Seriki & Brooks because it will be a joy to watch those two down the right as their careers blossom. I also think they both look better when playing together.
Last one I selected was O'Hare. Deserved winner of Player of the Year from his performances earlier in the year. It would also be hard to replace his workrate.

 

[mattbianco1]

Had a look this morning for any sites with accurate transfer fees and or values.
There was nothing I saw that made any sense.
Placed minimum fee values based on
1 Fees paid - valid or not in my eyes
2. Inability of Wilder to extract good fees
eg No 1 target of Leeds Bogle £6m
No 1 internally rated graduate of academy Will Osula £10 million
Tommy Cannon £12 million
3. Apparent imbecility of COH in all things football plus their history
eg Souza £12 million half his value in a hurry at the start of last close season.
They are NOT my evaluations but my impression of how other people may see them in the circumstances
AND THE BEST WE AS FANS CAN EXPECT
Hopefully not missed anybody off of any value who may go (Marsh Frickleton? etc)
eg Soumare will not be bought regardless of money - we do not have any money.

Don't agree with point #2.

Bogle wanted out and in last year of contract. He was worth probably £6-8m when sold but contract status meant we cashed in.

I think you are the first person to say getting £10m for Osula was bad business.

 

[BazWainwright]

Come on. Who voted for Cannon?

Own up!

 

[mattbianco1]

Come on. Who voted for Cannon?

Own up!

You can click it and see

 

[Balham]

Come on. Who voted for Cannon?

Own up!

To be fair, I'm not sure Dkc took the exercise particularly seriously given that he also voted for Matos, RND and Zatterstrom.

Don't agree with point #2.

Bogle wanted out and in last year of contract. He was worth probably £6-8m when sold but contract status meant we cashed in.

I think you are the first person to say getting £10m for Osula was bad business.

Totally agree on Bogle. £8m for a Championship right back who's into a contract option year is decent going. For what it's worth, Wilder may have a say in the minimum value we place on a player (hence Leeds' opening offer of £3m getting laughed at) but he won't be involved in the sales negotiations.

In an ideal world, Osula would have stayed with us last season and fired us to promotion. However, we needed the money and accepting £12m from Newcastle, plus all the add-ons, made sense to all parties.

 

[AdamSufc1997]

Don’t think anyone will be bothered if anyone left. It’s who we replace them with

 

[Danetheblade]

Seriki, Brooks, Cooper, Bamford and O’Hare.. the rest can get to fuck for me. Absolute wasters. Sadly, I think we’ll lose Seriki and Brooks as they’re two of not many who are athletic and able to go further up the football ladder.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Cannon
O'Hare
Brooks
Bamford
Riedewald

 

[dexter101]

I went with O'Hare, Bamford and Reidewald.

As much as I want players like Peck, Brooks and Seriki to stay, I think we have to accept that we will also need to sell some of them as they are the players with some value.

Must Keep, are the 3 above where they bring a lot to the team but also don't really generate enough cash to bring in a similar replacement (O'hare may do but... I like him)

 

[Rob86]

Seriki, Brooks, Cooper, Bamford and O’Hare.. the rest can get to fuck for me. Absolute wasters. Sadly, I think we’ll lose Seriki and Brooks as they’re two of not many who are athletic and able to go further up the football ladder.

These are my 5 must keeps as well.

Doubt McCallum & Riederwald will have any interest but also good to keep.

Peck & Hamer it really depends on what we get offered for them as the former won’t be on mega wages.

Rothwell & Blaster could be useful. Can’t really be more optimistic than that !

The rest can leave for free/low fees as I don’t think we’ll see any return on them anyway.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

I've gone for Bamford & Riedewald because we had a glimpse of life without them at the beginning of last season and it was not pretty!
Also gone for Seriki & Brooks because it will be a joy to watch those two down the right as their careers blossom. I also think they both look better when playing together.
Last one I selected was O'Hare. Deserved winner of Player of the Year from his performances earlier in the year. It would also be hard to replace his workrate.

I didn't go for Bamford and Riedewald for those very reasons. Bamford, whilst still scoring a few looked pretty off it in quite a few games towards the end of season and he isn't getting any younger, his touch wasn't great and he missed a few absolute sitters. Keep him by all means but get rid of Cannon and Campbell and whatever cash (if any) we get for them two, invest in something better.

Riedewald appeared to be struck by the Blades curse. Looked fine at first but sign a contract then just look too comfortable. He goes sideways and backwards and that isn't what we need. I'd rather we sign Tommy Doyle and get him going, I think he'd offer more.

We need two centre halves for me, Bindon was our best last season and he was hardly a world beater yet he was streets ahead of McGuiness and Tanganga. Scary if we start the season with the two of them again.

UTBFTP

 

[Swannyblade]

I didn't go for Bamford and Riedewald for those very reasons. Bamford, whilst still scoring a few looked pretty off it in quite a few games towards the end of season and he isn't getting any younger, his touch wasn't great and he missed a few absolute sitters. Keep him by all means but get rid of Cannon and Campbell and whatever cash (if any) we get for them two, invest in something better.

Riedewald appeared to be struck by the Blades curse. Looked fine at first but sign a contract then just look too comfortable. He goes sideways and backwards and that isn't what we need. I'd rather we sign Tommy Doyle and get him going, I think he'd offer more.

We need two centre halves for me, Bindon was our best last season and he was hardly a world beater yet he was streets ahead of McGuiness and Tanganga. Scary if we start the season with the two of them again.

UTBFTP

I'd argue that Bamford has been that way throughout his entire career. He'll miss some sitters and score a fair few that he has no right to. I'd definitely want to add some proper competition for his spot, but I dread to think where we'd be if we were relying on Cannon, Campbell and Ings for goals all last season.

I disagree on Riedewald. I think he looks a class act at this level and you only need to look at what happens to our goals against and points lost stats when he's not on the pitch for evidence of his impact. This team was desperate for a calm steady presence in the middle and Jairo delivered. I'll concede that he doesn't offer as much going forwards, but he isn't that player and you have to surround him with other players who compliment his strengths. He's a very good shield in front of defence and in possession, he keeps things ticking over and is always showing for the ball.