This is a real football club not a computer game. Even Nuno, when he took on a complete rebuilding job after Shamberk, didn't make that level of change at one time.
Did he not?
Neves, Jota, Boly, Bonatini, Vinagre, Douglas, N’Diaye, Bennett, Ruddy, Miranda, Norris is 11 players in. They all came in to the first team that summer as did Ofosu-Ayeh (who obviously wasn’t involved) so 12 were actually added with Mir and Afobe added in January as we’d missed out on adding another striker that we’d wanted at the end of the summer window.
We then let Dicko, Edwards, Saville, Henry, Williamson, Lonegran, Bodvarsson, Wallace, Mason, Iorfa, Gladon, Evans, Graham, Duckens Nazon, Ebanks-Landell and Silvio go so that was 16 out.
It was a massive summer of change for our first team, less than a dozen players from the season before survived it and stayed with the squad.
That’s not to suggest we’ll do the same this summer, or even need to, but it has been done and given the number of players out of contract, Traore going, Neves possibly too it means we will potentially need a large turnover in the summer whether we want to or not.
I know people deride the “next transfer window is the big one” comments but this summer is massive in my opinion. Whether it be tying some of our existing players down or replacing them, there’s a lot of work to be done to give Bruno the competitive squad he needs for next season.
