The next two transfer windows are obviously very important for us as realistically we could see all of the following leave:
Iversen, Smithies, Soyuncu, Evans, Amartey, Vestegaard, Thomas, Bertrand, Mendy, Choudhury, Praet, Tielemans, Maddison, Perez and Iheanacho.
This would leave us with something like:
Ward
Stolarzyk
Castagne
Ricardo
Justin
Faes
Ndidi
Soumare
KDH
Barnes
Albrighton
Daka
Vardy
As a lot will be leaving either on free transfers or for smaller transfer fees as they only have a year left I think we have to be shopping in a similar sort of market for this rebuild as there is a lot of talent out there with expiring contracts.
I reckon we need
GK - Lafont would be my first choice
LB - Not sure tbh and depends on if Thomas stays
3x CB - Ndicka and Smalling available on frees although we’ve probably missed the boat with Ndicka, need one definite first choice option to start alongside Faes, maybe one youngster and an experienced head to replace Evans
2/3x CM - Le Fee looks quality and Aouar on a free would be smart business, someone suggested Veerman the other day who I like the look of too.
2 wingers - If we could get Tete in Jan on a small fee and Tsygankov on a free in the summer it would transform our RW options
There will be a lot of competition for these players but with the wages we’ll have freed up I’d have thought we could offer some competitive packages