[St Charles Owl]

I think we have to sign Bannan to a new contract, even if its to make sure we can get something for him if we decide to let him go, but the money he cost us and the wages he is on it would be very difficult under the current financial restrictions to replace him with someone of the same standard.

Here is a list of the players out of contract at the end of this season:

Westwood (age 33) gk
O'grady (age 20) cb / rb
Nielsen (age 20) cb
Pudil (age 32) cb
Fox (age 24) cb / lb
Penney (age 20) lb / lw
Palmer (age 26) rb / cm
K.lee (age 30) cm / rb
Bannan (age 28) cm
Abdi (age 31) cm
Jones (age 33) cm
Boyd (age 32) lb / lw / cm / cf
Preston (age 19) lw / rw
Matias (age 29) lf / cm / cf
Hooper (age 30) cf

The ones in bold are the ones we can let go in my opinion, no need to resign them as we should be able to replace them. I am undecided about Lee, he needs to prove his fitness to start with but even then he may not be able to get back to the form he has shown in the past.

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Rumors out and about that Danny Batth is a loan target for us, would welcome that one as he is the sort of player we need at the back. Also Cameron Carter-Vickers on loan from Spurs, he has had loan spells with the Blunts and Ipswich but is now back at Spurs and likely to be available. Anyone know anything about him?