Wooton, Kosta, Rojas/Chico and Sutton player budget should be four new starters and a fair bit of money to spend on them.
4 out of 11 new starters is, sure, a high-ish hurdle given the quality we need to replace. But it is also a bunch of fresh players and new enthusiasm. Plus some fresh coaching voices.
Someone with better final product than Sutton. Someone who can play more out of the back and score more from corners than Wooton (I'm still fond of the occasional Durante rampage forward). A Chico/Rojas replacement that actually plays for us. And someone of the quality you can get with Kostas' budget.
And a bunch of kids that have a year under their belt and who hopefully aren't hampered by injuries the way many of the young potential starters or subs were this season.
Fingers crossed it's not as bad as everybody feels right now
4 out of 11 new starters is, sure, a high-ish hurdle given the quality we need to replace. But it is also a bunch of fresh players and new enthusiasm. Plus some fresh coaching voices.
Someone with better final product than Sutton. Someone who can play more out of the back and score more from corners than Wooton (I'm still fond of the occasional Durante rampage forward). A Chico/Rojas replacement that actually plays for us. And someone of the quality you can get with Kostas' budget.
And a bunch of kids that have a year under their belt and who hopefully aren't hampered by injuries the way many of the young potential starters or subs were this season.
Fingers crossed it's not as bad as everybody feels right now