12 May 2026 13:34:59
If I can do deals in my sleep Paraag can coax

£6m for Harrison
£10m for Ramazani
£10m for Piroe
£8m for Dan James
£5m for Bornauw
£10-12m for Tanaka
£10-12m for Gruev
£10-15m for Gelhardt
£3m for Wober, basically just book it as neutral for PSR, and taking a hit on a bit of his wages.

I also think its a massive stick or twist period for Aaronson. He has two years left on his deal. Either we have to decide to give him a new deal and protect his sell-on value, or hope he has a good world cup and try and get £20m+ for him. Personally, I'm hoping for the latter. There's no denying he's had a much better season than I anticipated though. He does remain attractive to American owners though, no doubt.

I'll give him a pass on Mateo Joseph given he's got an ACL injury.


Meslier leaving, wages of i'm guessing 40k off the books. 25K a week on Bouonotte's loan. 10K on Byram's deal.

IF Paraag did all of this - he won't, we'd raise £75mish purely on outgoing fees, not including BA.

Apart from Kalvin, Raphinha, Cry, Archie and Georgi our selling has been atrocious for years, particularly with getting fees for players we want to move.

We'd have to: Give Darlow a new 1yr deal (with a second year triggered if we stay up next season) . He has his iffy moments but clearly the Welsh contingent are comfortable with him.

At least explore improved terms for Ampadu. Two years left with a club option sounds like a long time. It isn't.

Optimistically, let's say we get the £75m and investment takes us to spending £110m overall, I'd present the following options.

LWB - Depth/ Gabby support

Top: Diouf (West Ham) De Cuyper (Brighton - though he's finishing the season strong) or Hartmann (Burnley) Each would be approx £20m I'd think.

Mid: None

Budget tier Ben Davies £5m - Welsh camarderie. Basically becomes Byram but probably 5-10% better.

CB

Top: Disasi £20m - West Ham generally look a different team defensively with him in it.

Mid: Mavropanos £10-12M - Looked awful at the start, looks better with someone half decent (ie. not Kilman) next to him.

Budget: Adam Webster (free) . ACL injury recovered and not getting a new deal with Brighton.

CDM/ CM

Top: Eric Martel Koln 6'4 free agent. Looks really good, clear upgrade on Gruev or AO.

Mid: Hidemasa Morita. Also free but at 31 we'll probably get the twilight of his prime with no sell on value

Budget: Take Halseth Nypan or Echeverri on loan from City.

Wing

Top: Abdul Fatawu £20m. 18 months removed from a bad ACL. Leicester's best player (not saying a lot) but tore up the Prem before. Try and get Cry back (£25m) .

Mid: Matheus Mane £15M

Budget: Stick with what we have.

STK

Top: Jonas Wind - Wolsburg - free - free agent a proper target man. 6'3, 27, bit injury prone this year but hit double digits in most other Bundesliga seasons. Injury might be less of an issue if he rotates with DCL.

Mid - Zian Flemming - 6'1 can play 10 or nine. £10-15m Apparently quite technical, so could be our missing 10. In any case the versatility is attractive, as is his understanding with Hartman. We take one of those two we take both.

Budget. Callum Wilson £5m. Seems to come up with key goals and might be a decent backup to DCL. Or a flier on perenially injured Evan Ferguson, but we'd be buying low on a player who has had so much talent over the years. Lois Openda who we've been linked with on a loan with obligation after performance-related targets hit.

Doing deals for Hartmann, Disasi, Flemming, Fatawu would be around £80m you'd think and either become instant starters or on par depth for the existing squad.

1.) 12 May 2026
12 May 2026 19:12:38
I think we will struggle to get anybody to take Harrison at the moment after two fell placements. It's not looking good for him. I'll take a million and be done with it. Good post, mate.

2.) 12 May 2026
12 May 2026 21:40:48
I don't see any vast improvement with them players, to be honest, and to spend £80m on them, which would be probably over 2/3rds of our budget, is ludicrous.

3.) 12 May 2026
12 May 2026 22:43:29
Ealing, be great if can offload some of those players and get a decent starting kitty. Think ideally need to spend 100-130m, and if can raise 60+ from sales
Re BA, a sell. Try recoup, but he not good enough, even though he works hard
Not heard of that striker, tall and scores. I do rate Duran, but big money, but might be able to tempt
I know not a popular opinion, but I'd try sell Struijk, slow and out of position a lot, good in opposition box though, but I'd go for Mavropanos and Daisia
I just have this feeling Wilson wants to join his Welsh mates, probably won't happen
Also a budget winger from Leicester be Mavrapidi.