This post will be updated with any outgoings/incomings/rumours... Outgoing Marco Silva - Watford (free). Alex Bruce - Released. Luke Lofts - Released. Bradley Maslen-Jones - Released. Shaun Maloney - Released (Retired and taken up youth coach role at Celtic). Johan Ter Horst, - Released (signed for Maidstone United). Curtis Davies - Derby County (undisclosed). Harvey Rodgers - Fleetwood Town (rejected a new deal with us to sign a 3-year deal in League 1) Harry Maguire - Leicester £12m (£17m with add-ons). Josh Tymon. - Stoke City (fee to be decided by tribunal). Tom Huddlestone - Derby £2m. Eldin Jakupovic - Leicester £2m + £250k add-ons. Ahmed Elmohamady - Villa £1m. Andy Robertson - Liverpool £8 (10m with add-ons). Sam Clucas - Swansea - Fee believed to be up to £15m (£16.5m with add-ons). Jonny Edwards - Accrington Stanley - Season long loan. Lazar Marković - Returned to parent club. Andrea Ranocchia- Returned to parent club. Oumar Niasse - Returned to parent club. Omar Elabdellaoui - Returned to parent club. Dieumerci Mbokani - Returned to parent club. Alfred N'Diaye - Returned to parent club. Incoming Staff Leonid Slutsky - From Russia with love... Lee Darnborough - Head of Recruitment (formerly with Norwich and Burnley). Pat Mountain - Goalkeeping Coach (from Wolves). Stuart White - Chief Scout (from Wigan). Players Ola Aina - Right Back - Chelsea - Season long loan. Fraizer Campbell - Striker - Palace (free) Kevin Stewart - Midfield - Liverpool (undisclosed- believed to be £4m) Ondrej Mazuch - Centre Back - Sparta Prague (undisclosed- believed to be £700k) Michael Hector - Centre Back - Chelsea (loan) Seb Larson - Midfield - Sunderland (free) Stephen Kingsley - Left Back - Swansea (undisclosed- believed to be £2-3m). Jon Toral - Attacking midfielder - Arsenal - (undisclosed - believed to be £3m) Nouha Dicko - Striker - Wolves (undisclosed- believed to be £3.5m) Jackson Irvine - Attacking Midfield - Burton Albion (undisclosed- believed to be £2m) Fikayo Tomori - Centre Back - Chelsea (season loan) Youth Brian Lenihan - Signed new one year deal (with option of additional year). Liam Edwards - Striker - Swansea (one year pro deal). Tom Powell - Striker - Wigan Athletic (two year youth deal). James Yates - Full back - Everton (one year youth deal). Jonny Edwards -Signed a new one year deal (with option of additional year). Callum Burton - Goalkeeper - Shrewsbury Town
The Guardian - Steve Bruce wants to sign City's Ahmed Elmohamady for Aston Villa. Bet there's a few happy if this turns out to be true.
Sensible post unlike most if the rubbish about him. Been through a messy divorce in that time too. Easy to say get on with it you're paid loads but it does affect people. Been great value for money in his time here.
The plus side of all of this is, assuming the players that we think will leave will actually do so, then we almost have a unique opportunity at this level with some reasonable funds (if allocated) to completely start again almost from scratch. Except with the 3 senior keepers, obvs.
I'd probably have kept hold of Alex. We need to stop going into every window needing 15 players. If we kept hold of decent players when we're obviously going to lose the better ones, then we'd have a much better starting point to go and sign 3/4/5 players rather than a whole team. Maybe then we'd for once start a season with an actual set of strikers.
Maybeif we ever had a steady three seasons we could, you get relegated you lose top players and release some, you get promoted you rebuild
How many goals has Marshall let in this year now? If Jakapovic goes then we need cover in goal really bad, if he stays is Mannion good enough yet, as cover?