Not one player worthy of any positives today and that included all our subs with Gnonto the only exception.
Byram was awful and Schmidt should have played if he wanted to rest Firpo.
Midfield like you say Tad non existent and both our wingers along with Piroe completely off it.
Rodon had his worse game all season and as for Meslier my goodness what a disaster he is despite him saving a penalty.
I said months ago maybe even at the start of the season we will not win the league with that clown in goal.
I would also say he could have saved their second goal never mind the first where he wasn`t even under any pressure.
Surely he has to drop him for next weeks game now along with Aaronson who granted scored a sloppy goal but did little else after that.

they all will

Surely it will only apply to those players who were in the squad that was relegated from the premiership and had their salaries halved?  Surely those that joined this year will not get a doubling of their current deal?

nope. contracts will say we go up wages increase by, say, 20%. we go down your wages reduce by 20%.
standard contracts. incentives.
they also have a bonus for staying up.
not that either meslier or bamford could be here next year of course

What do we reckon for next season then with regards to incomings and outgoings ? 


Think we need at least 8 coming in if not more. 


Keeper
Left back
Centre back 
Centre mid x 2. 
Winger at least one if not 2. (Solomon plus one other)
A Number 10
A Number 9 maybe 2 of them 


Meslier goes as does Firpo. Possibly Bamford who I think has one year left. Joseph goes on loan. Ramazanni goes on loan. Not sure Gruev good enough at that level. 



Do we bring in Rothwell permanently for squad depth? 


Need to buy well and will need circa £150m 

agree with all that apart from ramanazzi goes and £8m for Rothwell? no thankyou.
aaronson can play wide and is a decent bench option so possibly can get by without a winger if money is tight in aPSR way.
just buy sensibly. solid premier league experience.
longstaff from Newcastle could be a solid signing for example




edit- wouldn't go anywhere near kalvin phillips. his day has gone