Now, ill preface this with I ain’t saying we are up though given we have a 5 point gap, the two behind us have to play each other and there’s only 4 games left there’s only Leeds United who can mess that up.

With that said, if we were to be a PL team next year who is actually good enough to try get us to 16th, would we have to do a Forest and completely decimate the squad or try what we did under Bielsa and change very little but add quality?

Manager Farke- I don’t think he is good enough personally, he has one plan and when that plan doesn’t work it is kinda game up. I don’t see his possession style winning us games because better teams won’t let us keep the ball, we’ve seen recently how quickly our players **** the bed when they’re pressed in defense and options out are cut off they panic and go long or just end up knocking it out for a throw in. Does he deserve the chance? Absolutely and I’d frankly be disappointed in the club if they did anything different. Do I think he is good enough to keep us up? A lot depends on good signings but truthfully, no.

Players
Good enough
Rodon- Absolutely, solid bottom half defender
Struijk- I sometimes think people massively over hype how good he is for someone who makes so many errors, but as a PL option he is fine.
Ampadu- Yes, but I’d want him in midfield
Darlow- As back up, fine as long as we have someone high quality as number one.
Tanaka- Easily
Gruev- as a back up option
James- yep
Solomon- we need to try sign for sure
Gnonto- yep
Ramazani- yep, but if Farke isn’t going to trust him then what’s the point, just replace and move on.


Unsure
Bogle- Guy can attack but defensively he’s suspect and I am not sure in the PL you can have someone so weak against top level wingers.
Byram- If he is happy to play emergency back up, fine, if he is starting games we would be going down.
Schmidt- Who knows, looks decent, Farke never trusted him till now.
Aaronson- As a back up for his energy and attitude ain’t bad but he is nowhere near starter quality.
Rothwell- isn’t ours so wouldn’t want to drop big money and honestly I’d hope the space he vacates would be replaced with a high quality starting option, however as a back up he is definitely good enough.
Piroe- I don’t think he has enough strengths to his game to be a PL striker, he can finish but that’s it

Not good enough
Meslier- no matter what league, its done, much like Wiedwald, Rachubka, Casilla etc there’s no coming back.
Firpo- Contract up, let him move on with the pride of promotion.
Wober- once looked a good PL player, now looks out of his depth constantly.
Guilavogui- no
Joseph- needs a loan to get experience
Bamford- he is good enough, but injuries just means he is never an option, better to let him move on and replace his spot with someone who can actually play.


Squad as a whole

GK- NEEDED + Darlow + Cairns
LB- Needed + Byram
CB- Rodon + Needed
CB- Struijk + Needed
RB- Neeeded + Bogle
CM- Ampadu + Gruev
CM- Tanaka + Needed
CAM- Needed + Aaronson
LW- Solomon + Ramazani
RW- James + Gnonto
ST- Needed + Piroe/Joseph

I don’t think you can overhaul an entire squad so you have to keep your strengths in there and replace the weakest links with high quality, don’t make the mistake Ipswich have done, go out and get some PL experience