I've been thinking about this over the last few days mate, a key thing for and something that has evolved is the squad no - come July 1st we will be down to about 24 players in the squad, that is down from the mid 30's in its height.
24 give or take is the perfect no for the finances we should be punching at. The difficulty we had in the past, was with he collection of managers we had in the past, we would simply back them and build another lare or players over ones we wouldn't use and they would just sit there, decrease in profile and as an investment, take wages and eventually fall of the contract conveyer belt.
I agree all clubs will inevitably make losses and we have to accept a degree of loss as the nature of football dictates it, its the scale of it and the level of risk, we are clearly sailing close to the wind.
I suppose the point im getting at is we are hitting ground zero in terms of a good sized manageable squad, that could probably do with shedding a few high earners, Yerry, Gomes, we need recruits undoubtedly, but id be very reluctant, to be increasing the squad number again, or building another lare of new players over existing ones unless we cut our cloth accordingly in the squad.
Im very reluctant to let DCL or Richarlision go unless either of the two took the initiative themselves, which isn't impossible in fact may be likely, i worry we are not good enough to: 1. To recruit well to fill the hole they are likely to leave. 2. Be good enough to compete without them.
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