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You are right agents will soon find them clubs, it's not like in the 1960s when some had to to go on the dole.

I guess I disagree that sweeping changes are needed and that the chances of them happening are miniscule. It's defeatist for starters, which I'd rather not be. But I also don't think either of those things are true. We wouldn't have needed to convert many of our draws to wins to be in the play offs (4 to be exact) and that's with a squad that had some major positional gaps. So I don't think we're a million miles away from competing higher up. I also think there's plenty of scope for moving players in and out. Most of the contracted players who we may be wanting to move have had decent careers elsewhere. There's a lot of time for them to make advances over the summer and I don't think it requires recruitment to be perfect to do so.

Of course, you see them every other week at BP but not in our team I might add!

Pretty much the exact same conversation.

Well if that’s the case then DR needs to say as much pretty damn quick as the early bird offers end in 10 days time. The club wants us to commit early so let’s have some encouraging narrative. All we’ve heard to date from our head honcho MM is doom & gloom!! Unless there are some sort of encouraging noises from our CEO our ST take up is sure to suffer a substantial drop which in itself will drastically affect next season’s budget! I have to say that communication with our fanbase is as bad as it’s ever been and I include the Lemsagam’s ‘slowly slowly’ era!! It shouldn’t need speculative journalism from the Oldham Times to inform us of MM’s intentions it should come straight from the club. I expected much better!!

Indeed.

Nah, not having it. We'll be spending again...

You've missed the last bit of what @Frankly Mr Shankly has said. Are there better as back up for what they would cost? Not can we afford better full stop. He might get rid of them all too, who knows. But if he does decide to keep them it doesn't necessarily mean we're fucked. Which is what some people seem to take from it.

Course there will be. We will make 7/8 signings, which transforms the match day squad. Im not worried about us being able to make signings, I am worried about us getting the signings correct.

I reckon there will be that’s why get rid of them all.

Here we go again . . .

Got the spine of a good squad. We just need creativity and pace. Let’s not all shit the bed, it’s not even May yet.

There will be though. Why wouldn’t there be?

If there is no budget for bringing better than them we are in trouble

What does the budget comprise of? I thought it was a five year plan or something , there must be funds available

As much as I'd agree, we don't have the budget for bringing in better players than them as back up choices.

See what happens

Well it was in the Oldham times confirming the 4….

It's not really a massive change though - it's just a theory that may or may not come about. If he has a squad largely made up of players he'd worked with before, and largely ones he's said aren't good enough, we're in big trouble. It all seems to swing on how many of the out of favour we can offload and how much of their wages we will still be paying. Room for manoeuvre is clearly very limited and means that the half a dozen or so that we will probably sign all have to work out, hit the ground running and be injury free. On recent form in the recruitment stakes I'd rate that as being a very long shot indeed.

The reality is we need a squad of around 24 players. We now have a squad of 19 and a number of that squad will leave as they are clearly not in his plans: Kofi Moore (probably a season loan) Joe Nuttall Alex Reid Mark Shelton Kurt Willoughby That brings us to 14. I don't think we'll stop there either. I think more will go out of what's left. Which for the sake of argument brings us to 12 players. If we want a squad of 24 then that's another 8 signings, plus the 4 rumoured from the out of contract list. That's still a massive change from where we were last week. But with 16 of the 24 in my hypothetical situation being existing players who have worked with Mellon, that brings an element of continuity when it comes to what he expects from his players.

Not having a go at Suzanne, but that article is just ifs, buts and maybes. Pure rumour and speculation without a single quote from anybody, such as manager or CEO.

Hope you're right - that sounds a lot more positive. Just hope we're not running out to the Dad's Army theme if the Worrall and more experience rumours are correct.

I mean, i said it first like.

First Team Squad 1. Magnus Norman (2025) 13. Matt Hudson (2025) 3. Mark Kitching (2025) 4. Liam Hogan (2025) 5. Shaun Hobson (2025) 16. Charlie Raglan (2025) 21. Will Sutton (2025) 6. Mark Shelton (2025) 8. Josh Lundstram (2025) 11. Dan Ward (2025) 14. Nathan Sheron (2025) 26. Oliver Hammond (2025) 32. Tom Conlon (2026) 7. Kurt Willoughby (2025) 10. Joe Nuttall (2025) 24. Joe Garner (2025) 25. Alex Reid (2025) 30. James Norwood (2025, with option for 1 more year) 31. Kofi Moore (2025?) Final Year Scholars Oli Havens Favour Okeke - offered deal Mworina Doro 1st/2nd Year Scholars TBA

What does a potential contract look like ? People are making their own assumptions when in reality nobody here knows fuckall. Least of all yourself who I’ve not seen be right over any of the shite you keep piping up with . Give it a rest