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Not an issue for me from either side - Pato is 33 in December so this is probably his last decent, in football terms, contract so he’s obviously going to want a 2/3 year contract on what he/his agent see as top money. We on the other hand are trying to ‘manage’ our wage bill & so for a player his age with no obvious connection to the club a 12 month deal is clearly the better option.
So it’s now a game of poker to see who moves first - as long as we have contingencies in place a little time e.g. 2/3 weeks is just fine.
Agree with the tone here in that if we are aiming at Gallagher as our main striker - noting age, fitness & average goal to match ratios - for next season we have a big problem.
Unless I missed something though BR remain with us in the Championship so not sure about the ‘league one’ reference or the if Cullen was to go there he’d be dropping a league.
I’d only see this as an option if we were exiting Yates, Kuk & swapping Cullen for Gallagher plus bringing in Langstaff & Jones to score/create our goals with Gallagher & Wilson providing cover and different bench options.
Agreed - this coming pre-season & the early months of the proper season will be key for LC to prove to LW & PW that he is a useful first team squad member & warrants a new improved contract.
Otherwise the club will be looking to exit him in January, ideally via a modest sale or out on a half season loan to cover his wages before he exits.
Suspect we would consider a sale this summer but as both Yates & Kuharevich probably are a more pressing exit in this window - both at a likely trading loss - that would only leave us Wilson up top and an even longer shopping list for PW.
At 31 still got another contract at EPL for me, might come back after that if a coaching option was included - now if we were going up different story.
Clubs are allowed to add back money spent on both Youth & Women’s football plus any non-cash stuff like depreciation/amortisation before the P&S calculation is done.
Good points UJ & agree I thought that 94th minute header was going in too - personally I think our current back 4 plus Wood with Rushworth behind them is a decent base but way too many times this season they seem to get lulled into a passive approach where they generally adopt the right positional structure but almost seem to hesitate in putting challenges in & see what the opposition attack can do.
Not sure if that is a coaching thing or a concentration thing but if the aspiration is to become a top 6/8 team then that has to improve.
For me if sides sit against us so we can relatively easily retain possession we lose any drive/passion in our play & are content passing it around in front of the opposition’s final third trying for either the perfect pass into our weak strikers or a random cross.
That malaise spreads across all 10 outfield players & we become way too passive all over the pitch which leads to very few challenges being made & easy for the opposition to create chances - quite regularly we have 60 - 70% possession but have less attempts on goal/target than our opponents a recipe for losing more games than you win.
We probably need at least 5/6 first team regulars if we are up for changing that for next season.