This point warrants repeating.
I listened to a Twitter space last night where someone actually advocated renewing Delphi's contract, on the basis that his performance against Utd "shows what he brings to the squad". The most astonishing recency bias I think I've ever witnessed.
We're on this mess because of the players. If we do avoid relegation that's great, and any strong performances in the next eight games will draw deserved praise... But escaping relegation by a narrow margin is NOT a good enough standard for this club.
The out of contract players should be ushered out at the earliest opportunity, and replaced with younger up-and-coming players from the championship on more realistic wages, with a variety of triggers for bonuses written into their contracts. The high-earning non-contributors need to be sold, even if it's for buttons. Some of these goons are on £6m a year and this ongoing cost causes continuing financial difficulties. Spurs showed us the way with the structure of the Dele Alli deal - let them go for no intitial fee, but provide triggers in the deal which can result in fees later on.
There's very few I'd keep at this stage. Rumours of Roma wanting Gomes for £16m are too good to be true, I'd take it in a heartbeat. Allan is a player I like but if he really is attracting interest around £10m in Italy then he can go too. We need to free up a large chunk of the current payroll, and we need an infusion of new players.