king_dezeeuw06
Vital Champions League
Agree with a lot of this KDZ
Here is the Express and Star piece on Ruddy and wanting first team games
https://www.expressandstar.com/spor...per-john-ruddy-keen-for-regular-playing-time/
Great shout with Smithies, as you said tonnes of Championship experience, regular last 4 to 5 seasons at Championship level and available on a free. Id take him as an upgrade on Amos.
Probably will meaning having to let Jamie Jones go if we bring in a new keeper but truth be told given Jones' age, he may want to play regular first team football. Fleetwood or Morecambe would be good destinations for him as North West based and would give him first team football he would want. No to mention we have Tickle who is coming up through U18s and U23s who would be cheaper to have around as a 3rd keeper than Jones.
Shifting Massey and Jordan Jones would be handy if we could do it. Massey is on 8k a week reportedly and thats too much to justify keeping him when he wont get too much football and should be able to get himself a League One club where he can start every week.
What we do with our young players will be key. Robinson is out of contract but id like to keep him and then send him out on loan to a club at bottom end of League One/top of League Two so he can play more regularly. Id also consider loans out for likes of Long and Sze as well. Maybe a few others. They need senior experience under their belt as we cant judge them off U23s games. Look at Lang's loan moves to Oldham, Morecambe and Motherwell as an example
Massey is out of contract so surely he has gone. Jones I suspect will end up out on loan again, even if we have to pay some of his wages it looks like Richardson has no interest in using him and Jones was unhappy here.
Robinson and Long both have potential but if they could barely get a league appearance between them in L1 it's hard to see them breaking through at a higher level. Both are at the stage they need to be playing first team games if they want to develop so I'm not sure if their future will be with us. In an ideal world they'd have been out on loan playing every week in L1 or L2 last season but unfortunately it didn't happen.