Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
That’s all well and good Andy but the point of the original post is that we have to deal with what we’ve got.
There seems general agreement about who’s worth keeping and who isn’t...Bryson, Anya and Baird, along with keeping or cashing in on Vydra, being the greatest source of debate.

Beyond that Martin, Butterfield and possibly Bryson are the problem. They cost us a fortune but are of relatively little value. If I recognise that you can bet every other club/agent in the country will have a clearer understanding...so, taking into account FFP as well,
how do we move forward?

I agree with much of your retain/release list...I even agree about Bryson although he is approaching ‘elderly’ now for a box to box midfielder whose game was built on energy and mobility...but how do we ship out Martin and Butterfield, both of whom I believe to have ‘burned their bridges’, without taking an unaffordable loss?
I'm a forgiving bloke, if I was GR and couldn't offload Butterfield early doors, I'd 'coach' him to be of use to us, point him towards the (partial) resurgence of BJ, it might come to nothing, but it might result in our £5m original investment actually helping us avoid a £5m-plus investment in a new signing who might also be a crock of ****. If he runs out for the first game of the season, he'll have deserved the recall and I'll applaud him along with the rest. We aren't talking 'Claude Davies' bad here, ther HAS to be something GR can work with