I’m so fed up I’d do the following If we dont win league.
Release all OOC & loan players.
Sell Butland, Tav, Goldson, Davies, Lawrence, Hagi, Dowell, Cifuentes, Raskin, Matondo, Wright, Dessers and Lammers for as much as you can get for each player. Perhaps even release some who are near end of contract and on low wages (I’m looking at Scott Wright there).
Now hopefully we’d get near £10 mil for Butland and I’d hope we could still get our money back on Dessers and Lammers. Maybe between £7-15 million for rest. I’ve no idea of what their values are, but some were free transfers, so I’d like to hope we’d get a million or 2 for the likes of Lawrence, Raskin, and Matondo and maybe one or two others
Keep McRorie, Sterling, Souttar, Yilmaz, Diamonde, Cantwell, Danilo, McAusland, Promote McKinnon, Devine, King, Bailey Rice, Lowry (if he’s not been binned entirely), Yfeko, Fraser, Lyall, Lovelace( if still around). And any other promising youth who can step up into first team proper. A lot of them become our squad players rather than overpriced English lower league players. They should all know what it’s about to play for us, and apply themselves accordingly and one or 2 might surprise us and make themselves first 11 players.
Look to get in any promising Scottish youngster SPL in such as Watson from Killie, I’d take back Mayo as well tbh. Lennon Miller from Motherwell and any others.
We have to spend £4 million I think for Diamonde, If we have a usual £10 mill for a transfer budget, then that leaves £6 million plus whatever we can make from players sold. I’d spend some of that on Shankland, and to be honest I’d try and get Miovski in as well. 2 strikers who know the league and have scored against Celtic and one who is a Rangers supporter. Use the rest for Clement to get in a left sided CH, and creative CM and perhaps Cortez who looked good in his few appearances. I sadly still think Sima will be out of our reach financially.
None of this will of course happen, but it’s what I would do. Keep the players we can still work with and have shown something, promote the youths, and buy some decent Scottish players and the two best strikers in league outside of old firm and hopefully the management can work some magic and find us some gems.