Transfers Summer 2018.

[AucklandRover]

But the question is, Champs, do you WANT to start the season with 6 to 7 new players in the team?
If we do get 4/5 new players and 2/3 loan players, as you suggest, they presumably won't be signed as bench-warmers.
If we add Nyambe to the squad from our last game, with Antonsson and Conway perhaps gone, but factor in all the new players you mention, plus our better U-23s, what on earth will the starting XI be?
Ward, Feeney and Caddis will no doubt leave, but who would you definitely reject from our basic 20 of this season?
Antonsson, Samuel, Conway, Whittingham and Evans seem to be the most popular candidates, but that still leaves a really big group - especially if we get hold of Armstrong and Chapman.
I'd still favour a bit more caution, in order to retain a sense of unity.

[champs95]

But the question is, Champs, do you WANT to start the season with 6 to 7 new players in the team?
If we do get 4/5 new players and 2/3 loan players, as you suggest, they presumably won't be signed as bench-warmers.
If we add Nyambe to the squad from our last game, with Antonsson and Conway perhaps gone, but factor in all the new players you mention, plus our better U-23s, what on earth will the starting XI be?
Ward, Feeney and Caddis will no doubt leave, but who would you definitely reject from our basic 20 of this season?
Antonsson, Samuel, Conway, Whittingham and Evans seem to be the most popular candidates, but that still leaves a really big group - especially if we get hold of Armstrong and Chapman.
I'd still favour a bit more caution, in order to retain a sense of unity.

I think the ones coming in will replace the likes of Caddis, Whitingham, Gladwin, Antonsson, Conway etc. who are all squad players. We do need to replace Samuel, and of all the starters, I think we will go for an upgrade on Smallwood (maybe Evans).
The first 11 wont really change, maybe 2 or 3 players at the very very most. We may move Mulgrew in midfield and strengthen at the back? I think 85/90% of his starting 11 will remain. I think the squad as a whole we get a slight upgrade. TM will be looking now to bring in 4/5 players who have Champ experience. And the 2-3 loan players will be young prem players looking to get a game. As this season proved, its about a squad. Which has to be strong. Plenty of sides have a decent first 11 but a poor squad. TM will already know who he wants and is wont be a fortune he is asking for.
We would need to make changes to this squad, an upgrade. We are talking about the squad players who didn't play as much. If we get a better quality in, then the starting 11 would need to move up to the next level performance wise. We have set ourselves high standards now. If we don't keep pushing these players, they wont push us on. Nyambe will know that Caddis isn't going to take his place, if his performance dips. Right now. Also, as much as Smallwood has earnt his place this season, if hes not good enough next season, as it is now, who would come in and push us on? We need to push on, upgrade. Maybe move guys like him back on, promote a young lad from our academy, to play second fiddle to the new 'upgrade'. That's the kind I'm talking about coming in.
This current squad would do ok, but over a season it would eventually struggle as there isn't enough class in it.