Retained List

[ClaretinBudapest]

I agree Ballcock BT for manager!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

BT for manager. Can shift pudds faster than Arthur Daley can shift sh@ters

Someone once said I might not have been the best salesman in the world but I was certainly in the top one.

[mnrht]

Someone has their work cut out at Burnley FC this summer. 12 players returning from loans, contract offers to Jay, Charlie, BPF and Josh, Tresor and Esteve made permanent, trying to make JBL and Assignon permanent. Add to them 19 other senior players under contract leaves us with 39 players on our books. I assume Wout will go and probably Mellon, Dodgson and Costelloe will be back out on loan. That still leaves us 35 players, meaning quite a few are going to have to be shipped out before we can make any new signings.

We look top heavy with mediocre players, best of luck to whoever is charged with sorting that lot out.

Spot on Sinkov, "Top heavy with mediocre players", says it all imo. Too slow, poor technique, can't beat a man. How do we unload? God only knows.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Here's how I see it:

Just rubbed the old crystal ball and this is what the tea leaves came up with, predicted players staying:
Muric,
BPF,
Vigouroux,
Sambo,
Vitinho,
Delcroix,
Esteve,
Al-Dakhil,
O'Shea,
Taylor,
Dodgson,
Cullen,
Berge,
Massengo,
Benson,
Zaroury,
Odobert,
Koleosho,
Bruun Larsen,
Ramsey,
Tresor,
Rodriguez,
Foster,
Amdouni,
Obafemi.

This lot will breeze the Championship.
Gypsy Rose is also betting on this lot departing:
Trafford, £25 million.
Roberts, £3 million.
Ekdal, £5 million.
McNally, £5 million.
Beyer, £20 million.
Egan Riley, £500,000.
Brownhill, £10 million.
Bastien, £250,000.
Weghorst, £5 million.
Twine, £5 million.
Churlinov, £1.5 million.
Costelloe, Loan.
Mellon the younger, Loan.

All either leaving permanently or going off to Dundee on loan.

Should save us a few quid on wages and provide a chunk of financial wiggle room and free up some badly needed changing room space.

[sinkov]

Seeing as you are now in charge mon ami, what do you do on your first morning when Zaroury and Obafemi stroll in bleary eyed an hour late for training ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Seeing as you are now in charge mon ami, what do you do on your first morning when Zaroury and Obafemi stroll in bleary eyed an hour late for training ?

I will do a Dyche and throw them both in the Calder mon ami. Rinse and repeat until they knuckle down and train properly and on time.

[sinkov]

I will do a Dyche and throw them both in the Calder mon ami. Rinse and repeat until they knuckle down and train properly and on time.

I think those days are gone mon ami, didn't Dyche find himself in a bit of bother recently because he gave one of their young lads a playful cuff. Chuck them in the Calder and you'd have your bags packed, P45 in hand, and be gone the same day. So that's not an option, what's your Plan B ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I think those days are gone mon ami, didn't Dyche find himself in a bit of bother recently because he gave one of their young lads a playful cuff. Chuck them in the Calder and you'd have your bags packed, P45 in hand, and be gone the same day. So that's not an option, what's your Plan B ?

Plan B: Appoint Steven Defour and let him handle it.

[sinkov]

You haven't been in the job a day mon ami and you've chucked the towel in, FFS come back Owen Coyle.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

You haven't been in the job a day mon ami and you've chucked the towel in, FFS come back Owen Coyle.

I'd inherited too many bad apples mon ami. At my age I want a quiet life, the £4 million a year would have come in handy but I will survive.