If we go down, how do you start the rebuild?

[murphy89]

If we do go down, we need a clear plan to rebuild and get back up within the first season. Although going down is a disaster, we need to try and take some positives from it and I do think it gives us an opportunity to rebuild under Lampard. I think some of our higher earners (Gomes) will move on and take wage cuts to play for the likes of Benfica, whereas they would be harder to shift if we were still in the prem.

If we go down and going all Football Manager, this is the type of business I would like us to:

Expected outgoings:
Mina
DCL
Pickford
Richarlison
Gomes (back to Portugal)
Keane (maybe)
Gbamin

Incomings:
Go all out and get Brenton Diaz from Blackburn
Sam Johnstone (on a free and if Pickford is for sale, not sure he gets the move to the prem he wants)
Experienced CB (maybe someone who has done a few years in the championship)
Brennan Johnson (if we could get him and he doesn't go prem)
Billy Gilmour (loan)

Retained/back from loan
Controversial but if we go down I'd look to keep Delph on reduced terms if possible. Mainly to offer guidance to a young midfield
Ellis Simms would come into the first team squad to support Diaz.
Lewis Warrington (not sure if he is ready for Championship but is performing well at Tranmere)


Build the team around the base of:

Patterson Godfrey Branthwaite Mykolenko

And a forward line of
Gray Diaz Gordon

Midfield is a tricky one though

 

[Zatara]

...when we stay up

 

[Nymzee]

Johnston
Patterson Godfrey Branthwaite Mykolenko
???/Warrington Gilmour
Dele
??? Brereton Diaz Gordon
​

Would be down with something like that if we really have to sell everybody half decent.

2 free transfers, a loan and a couple of signings but that's just the first XI.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

One thing for certain is that we've got to try and get loads of the high-earners out of the club. Unless we do the EFL will probably smack us with point deductions right off the bat for breaching their rules.

 

[murphy89]

One thing for certain is that we've got to try and get loads of the high-earners out of the club. Unless we do the EFL will probably smack us with point deductions right off the bat for breaching their rules.

Can they right off the bat? I'd imagine there is a sliding scale with these things. Because we will have just dropped out of a league where the rules were different?

 

[Simon Buttle]

One thing for certain is that we've got to try and get loads of the high-earners out of the club. Unless we do the EFL will probably smack us with point deductions right off the bat for breaching their rules.

Rules are much more strict in the EFL, It really scares me when i think of our wage bill at £180m, in the championship it would need to be around £70m or less. We will need a massive clear out just to get down to an accepted level.

 

[Lob]

If we go down, the first thing that needs doing is a full reset of the running of entire organisation i.e clear out the board and the owner needs to bring in people who can successfully run a modern day football club and leave them to it. This needs to happen even if we stay up tbh.

Rebuilding anything under the same structure we currently have is pointless and will only ever go one way i.e bad.

 

[murphy89]

Rules are much more strict in the EFL, It really scares me when i think of our wage bill at £180m, in the championship it would need to be around £70m or less. We will need a massive clear out just to get down to an accepted level.

With the players out of contract and the saleable assets, I think our wage bill will drop significantly.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

If we go down, the first thing that needs doing is a full reset of the running of entire organisation i.e clear out the board and the owner needs to bring in people who can successfully run a modern day football club and leave them to it. This needs to happen even if we stay up tbh.

Rebuilding anything under the same structure we currently have is pointless and will only ever go one way i.e bad.

Very much like a management buyout of a failing business.

 

[MrGrumpy]

The second we go down or stay up I fully expect and demand Kenwright and DBB resign straight away.
If we go down or even stay up it’s sell sell sell for as much as possible and start a young team.
Sell 90% of the 1st team and use the kids and a few good free transfers.
We may not go back straight back up or stay up next year(if we are in the PL) but until we sort the finance out we are fekked either way

 

[ToffeeTim]

Ensure that the current board are replaced and make it clear to Moshiri that he needs to sell and let someone else have a go.

Replace the current board with people with experience in football, and in how to run a football club in a financially prudent way.

All focus should turn towards the current club board and owner - this is their responsibility and nothing less than resignations and apologies is acceptable.

Sell pretty much everyone that someone will take. Make sure out wage budget is reduced substantially so we are compliant to EFL financial rules.

Build with experienced centre backs, an experienced keeper, an experienced central midfielder and young players in all other positions.

Let Lampard stay on and build a side. Accept that it will take a few years. Accept that the club won't be fixed overnight. Accept that we have no divine right to win every week in the championship and will have to earn it like everyone else.

Overhaul the academy and allow pathways. Make sure that the 3rd string in every position is a youth player and not someone well past their best.

Make sure we have the right coaches at every level, who are instructed how to play from above so there is a joined up approach.

Stay at Goodison if at all possible. The stadium is going to be something we simply cannot afford if we are not a top flight club.

 

[Nymzee]

Ensure that the current board are replaced and make it clear to Moshiri that he needs to sell and let someone else have a go.

Replace the current board with people with experience in football, and in how to run a football club in a financially prudent way.

All focus should turn towards the current club board and owner - this is their responsibility and nothing less than resignations and apologies is acceptable.

Sell pretty much everyone that someone will take. Make sure out wage budget is reduced substantially so we are compliant to EFL financial rules.

Build with experienced centre backs, an experienced keeper, an experienced central midfielder and young players in all other positions.

Let Lampard stay on and build a side. Accept that it will take a few years. Accept that the club won't be fixed overnight. Accept that we have no divine right to win every week in the championship and will have to earn it like everyone else.

Overhaul the academy and allow pathways. Make sure that the 3rd string in every position is a youth player and not someone well past their best.

Make sure we have the right coaches at every level, who are instructed how to play from above so there is a joined up approach.

Stay at Goodison if at all possible. The stadium is going to be something we simply cannot afford if we are not a top flight club.

He's not selling us midway through a stadium build.

 

[murphy89]

Stay at Goodison if at all possible. The stadium is going to be something we simply cannot afford if we are not a top flight club.

The stadium wont stop now, too far along. Plus the stadium is one of the most important things long term for our future. No new stadium, the revenue gaps continue to grow

 

[leslad]

Old grocks and youngsters on loan

 

[Stuartisitc1878]

sorry if this is a really silly question but what happens with with out profit and sustainability issues? By dropping out of the Premierleague does it reset, miss out a season assuming we're lucky enough to bounce back or does it carry out? Sorry, that's probably a really silly question.