At the risk of being sunk without a trace as their may already be a thread on this:
I've spent a bit of time digging around the OS trying to work out when peoples contracts are up, here's what I found. The ones marked with ?? are my best guess. Anyone who knows any different, please let me know.
2009 Darren Ambrose
2009 Matt Holland
2009 Matt Wright
2009 Zheng Zhi
2009 Stetoslav Todorov
2009?? Darren Randolph
2009?? Jon Fortune
2009?? Aswad Thomas
2009?? Scott Wagstaff
2009?? Rashid Yussuff
2009?? Danny Uchechi
2010 Rob Elliot
2010 Nicky Weaver
2010 Chris Solly
2010 Grant Basey
2010 Lloyd Sam
2010 Dean Sinclair
2010 Matt Spring
2010?? Deon Burton
2011 Mark Hudson
2011 Yassin Moutaouakil
2011 Kelly Youga
2011 Jose Semedo
2011 Therry Racon
2011 Nicky Bailey
2011 Martin Christiansen
2011 Stuart Fleetwood
2011 Andy Gray
2011 Izale McLeod
2011?? Chris Dixon
2013 I hope
) Jonjo Shelvey
My view on squad restructuring would be, from those whose contracts are up at the end of the season I'd offer new ones to Wagstaff, Wright, Fortune and Randolph. I'd love to keep a few of the others but don't see how we could afford it.
Other than that I think we will try and "move on" Weaver, Sinclair, Christiansen and Gray. The worry is that we've failed to move on two of these four in this transfer window and those only on loan. Of the four I can only see us getting a fee for Gray, and would be pleasantly surprised if we got more than £500K for him.
If we start the season in League 1, then the pressure of high wages may mean we will have to "move on" some of the higher earners, which probably means no new contract for Fortune and bye bye to some of the current first teamers (Hudson, Racon, Semedo, Sam, Moots, Bailey, Youga, McLeod, even Spring or Burton)
The other option is to cash in on our most saleable asset in Jonjo
That's probably why I put myself firmly in the optimist camp at the moment. The alternative is just to depressing :-(
