Patterson has had several bad injuries now. Dyche has said a few times that hes developing behind the scenes.
If not for this current injury i think we may have seen a sale.
A concern is the defence in 12months time as things stand.
We'll have:
Mykolenko
Branthwaite
Tarkowski
Everyone else will be out of contract. We need to make signings here to develop over a season.
I wonder if Godfrey, Keane, Holgate and Patterson may be touted around now qnd whatever comes in, used on a young right back and a young centre back.
Well, id also make another suggestion, say we let the 2025 contracts - off the ones we wont offer new contracts to - run down and expire, but use next season to pad the squad out.
Heading into the financial year 25/26, we can count on increased commercial revenue from the new ground as income, while also using the space on the wage bill those contracts expiring creates, to better attack the market - now that's a bit simplistic given all the moving parts - with loans, takeovers and interest etc - however theoretically...............financial year 25/26 - should see an uptake in our ability to create revenue and we can plan accordingly, come July 2025 (maybe even before).