1 - Should Pep be in charge of the rebuild? Pep is not in charge of recruitment,never has been, the DoF is. Pep has an input and will continue to have it.
2 - Which players should be moved on in 2025? Question is irrelevant, the question is who can we move on. We should move on old guard like walker etc and players who aren't good enough like Grealish etc But they are on big contracts, they won't be easy to get rid of so we will probably see the depsrture of players that arent top of the list to replace. We'll have to rely on releasing players once contracts end, we won't be getting fees for anybody we want rid of but the youngsters.
3 - Which players should be offered new contracts? Haaland, rodri, foden and Dias all have contracts until 2027, they'll be the priority. Ake, akanji, kovacic and grealish also have contracts until then. Grealish won't get one, kovacic unlikely to get one. ake and Akanji woukd be keepers right now but that might change so unlikely to get offered extensions anytime soon. they'll all be 32+ when their contracts run out so they'll have to wait and earn any extensions.
3b - What players should we be targetting? Criteria should be Under 25, bags of pace and energy, best in the business. They'll be replacing legends, these next signings have to be their replacements so good isn't good enough, they have to be elite otherwise we lose our favorites tag and we have a squad that's arguably not the best in the league anymore.
4 - Who is making the decisions for the rebuild, i.e. Txiki or Hugo Viana. You'd expect Txiki to have things lined up for both jan and the summer already you can't hang around waiting for Viana, he'll of course be involved and aware but he's got his own job until the summer, it's all txiki until then.
5 - How will the 115 PL charges decision and other outside influences reflect on the rebuild. Do we wait until after the decision of the independent commission? They never have and will not have any impact. we don't put things on hold waiting for the outcome of something we're insistent we are innocent of.
6 - what sort of figures do we realistically have to spend on a rebuild? Impossible to quantify. We might have the next Alvarez lined up to fill gaps in our squad or we might have to pay a premium. Money shouldn't be a major factor, the only remit should be, sign the best. we are sitting on 2 years of profit, we'll see record revenue this year, especially with the club world cup boost, we could quite easily spend 400 million in one window and have no concerns. It will only hurt what we can spend in the following years. Spend what it takes.
