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Benteke, Bent, maybe Holman will leave. Lichaj and Dunne will leave for free. I dont think there is a club willing to take Given and Ireland off us, to much wage. N'zogbia, maybe if he keeps his form up. I think he will stay he is also on such a hefty wage noone will be willing to match that. I guess most of the "kids" will stay, in reality theres just Weimann thats any good of them. Gabby will stay I think. Vlaar too maybe. But hey, Gary Gardner is back next season....

^^^^That joke was fun a few years ago mate.

Well, I guess Leeds probaly could offer Warnock 15k for 18 months then we will pay 40-15=25k to Warnock for 6 months. Thats my take on it, all for Warnock to agree to move. It´s the players market....

Cant see us free up that much wages, Hutton we will deffo pay a big part of his wages and Warnock we will surely have to pay off. Maybe we could free up 20k?

Guzan Lowton, Dunne, Vlaar, Baker, Bennett Clark, Westwood N´Zogbia Benteke, Agbonlahor/Weimann

I blame the police.

I blame the fitness coach.

Where is this confirmed? Please dont say Talksport.

Warnock and Dunne, Ireland has on more year. IIRC Given and N´zog has three (!!!) more years.

Well what can he do with his hands tied? If hes not allowed the money, what should Lambert do? Pay for it himself?

I guess he´ll go on to have a fantastic rest of the season, scoring about 5-6 goals more and putting in MoM performances every other game. Then Everton sign him for £3m in the summer and he goes on to be a good PL-player.

Guzan Lowton, Vlaar, Dunne (if somewhere near fit), Bennett Westwood, Clark, Delph N´Zogbia Weimann, Benteke

Hairyhands, Will we be able to hold on to Vlaar, Benteke etc if we were to go down? Probably not in Bentekes case, but he will command a big fee that´ll hopefully will be invested in the squad again.

How the **** have we gone to "we have NO money"? Of course we dont have an endless pot of money, but not being able to bring in a championship midfielder like Stephens? What are we talking about? 3 million pounds?

Wayhoo, were being linked with Jeff Hendrick (20 yo Derby midfielder) in some irish paper.

Nahh, **** it. Close this thread and start a summer transfer thread. Lets discuss which players that could keep us up in the championship.

The same for me, hope we can keep him. Will score alot of goals in the championship.

If we dont sign anyone we must line up (as soon as Dunne can play): Lowton, Dunne, Vlaar, Baker With Clark as a DM, Make us hard to beat and a bit more solid.

Right now, I´d be rather happy with these three...

Yep, same here.

Are you now saying there will be no investment in January?

Some good shouts in there. I would like to add Dale Stephens to that list. Trotter and Stephens would give some size and strength in midfield. Chester I´m all for, he is highly rated. Maguire is one for the future, was the standout performer for me in the playoff final at Wembley last year at 18 years of age. Some abroad suggestions, Raoul Loe DCM from Osasuna, a beast. Would certainly add strength to the team, probably not very expensive either. If Bent goes I would like us to go for Jozy Altidore, I think the next club who signs him will make a coup.

Tom Rogic signs for Celtic, will do well there.

I´m starting to feel like its better to try and sign players that could bring us back from the Championship next season. Buy cheap players (wage wise) that we can keep in the Championship. Then put out all stops to keep Benteke and Vlaar at the club, make them our top earners. For example, get Dale Stephens (the famous Stevie G of the championship), Raoul Loe (a french DM from Osasuna, a beast…) and James Chester. Could probably buy all three of them for 10£m and wages we could afford in the championship. If we go down, then try in the summer to plug the holes in the squad after we´ll see whos leaving. I have no doubt Bent will leave, if not in january then surely in the summer. Ireland , not sure but I hope so. Given, hopefully Celtic sell Forster and we can ship Given up there… Dunne, Warnock and Lichaj is off at the end of season. In that case we might buy a new striker, there should be no problem buying a proven championship striker IMO. A new back up keeper, a winger and maybe another RB? That could gives a starting eleven looking something like: Guzan Lowton, Vlaar, Chester/Baker/Clark, Bennett Westwood, Loe Weimann, Stephens, Agbonlahor Benteke + players in the squad like: Gardner, Delph, Albrighton, Stevens, Bowery, Burke, Williams, N´Zogbia?, Holman? Graham? Grealish? Surely we could afford ONE season in the championship? Kind of a new start for the club, who knows we might even win a few games! And as someone earlier said, maybe we get som proper football in the championship instead of the plastic shit in the premiership. Oh, and keep Paul Lambert even if we are relegated. And by the way, of course I would rather stay in the Premier League, but I dont think it´ll be the end of the world if we dont.

Sad thing is I´m almost there myself.