Quote Originally Posted by 1959_60 View Post
I'm thinking Pope, Heaton, Tarks, Taylor, Barnes, McNeil and possibly Wood Sinkov.

Take them out of our team and we are down to the bare bones.

I really wouldn't worry about it 59, the last time we were relegated the only players we couldn't hold onto were Ings, Trippier and Shackell, and the only player we have of comparable quality this time is Tarkowski. We have a decent Championship standard replacement in Gibson anyway, so Tarko wouldn't be a massive loss, and we have three international keepers so we can easily afford to lose one, even two of them. PL teams tend not raid relegated teams for their lesser/average players for obvious reasons, if any PL team came in for any of Taylor, Barnes, McNeill, Wood or any of our other players I'd be gobsmacked, it just won't happen, and I don't see why any of them would jump ship for another Championship team, even with relegation clauses there won't be many clubs paying better than us one division down.

We'll have plenty of problems if we get relegated, but keeping hold of our players won't be one of them.