Contracts

Can’t imagine many will get kept on regardless of what division we are in.  

I’d like to see Mills and Mckeown tied up early. Plenty of years left in the both of them. I like Mills and I think he could still improve further. He’s the sort of player that could rack 2-300 appearances for us and won’t let us down.

Players I would keep would be
Macca

Collins as cover, dependant on wages as we may be able to find better/younger for cheaper.

Mills, although we may find better, I think he's more than capable of holding his own, maybe even in centre back aswell.

Reece Hall Johnson I would be tempted to keep as he should be cheap and he's versatile

Andrew Fox should be cheap and versatile.

Summerfield, he's an adequate back up I'm sure

Clifton, capable player, local so he will help us fulfill the EFL requirement of atleast 1 home grown player in the matchday 18 squad.

Wright, doing very well at Scarborough and will also help us fulfill the home grown player rule

Dembele, who knows what is happening with his contract.

Everybody else can go, as for the players already under contract, need to try and offload them all if we can.

We have to keep those on 2 year contracts unless we can find some way of getting rid.  Those I would "WANT" to keep are  Macca,Mills,Fox,Summerfield and Dembele. Full Stop. Rid of the rest plus Wilko and The Board

wouldn't collins fall foul of Jolley's '1 hour rule'? (unless an honourable exception is made in his case?)

Quoted from Davec

Players I would keep would be
Macca

Collins as cover, dependant on wages as we may be able to find better/younger for cheaper.

Mills, although we may find better, I think he's more than capable of holding his own, maybe even in centre back aswell.

Reece Hall Johnson I would be tempted to keep as he should be cheap and he's versatile

Andrew Fox should be cheap and versatile.

Summerfield, he's an adequate back up I'm sure

Clifton, capable player, local so he will help us fulfill the EFL requirement of atleast 1 home grown player in the matchday 18 squad.

Wright, doing very well at Scarborough and will also help us fulfill the home grown player rule

Dembele, who knows what is happening with his contract.

Everybody else can go, as for the players already under contract, need to try and offload them all if we can.

Agree with this, I think Mills could be a good centre half. Good defender, not very good in the final 3rd

Quoted from headingly_mariner

Can’t imagine many will get kept on regardless of what division we are in.  

I’d like to see Mills and Mckeown tied up early. Plenty of years left in the both of them. I like Mills and I think he could still improve further. He’s the sort of player that could rack 2-300 appearances for us and won’t let us down.

Totally agree about Mills, he’s one of our better players, Macca, Mills and Dembele would be a good start.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Totally agree about Mills, he’s one of our better players, Macca, Mills and Dembele would be a good start.

Agree about Dembele, but i am treating that as a 2 year contract. It will definitely be extended.

Quoted from Davec

Players I would keep would be
Macca

Collins as cover, dependant on wages as we may be able to find better/younger for cheaper.

Mills, although we may find better, I think he's more than capable of holding his own, maybe even in centre back aswell.

Reece Hall Johnson I would be tempted to keep as he should be cheap and he's versatile

Andrew Fox should be cheap and versatile.

Summerfield, he's an adequate back up I'm sure

Clifton, capable player, local so he will help us fulfill the EFL requirement of atleast 1 home grown player in the matchday 18 squad.

Wright, doing very well at Scarborough and will also help us fulfill the home grown player rule

Dembele, who knows what is happening with his contract.

Everybody else can go, as for the players already under contract, need to try and offload them all if we can.

"Should be cheap.." Are you Fenty in disguise?

If they are good enough for a promotion chasing squad (which I assume will be the aim) then cheap shouldn't come into it. This mindset must change in my opinion - players who are good enough will be offered better elsewhere if we don't pay the going rate for the better players.

Given the amount of players we’ll have on the first day of training we should enter the Futsal league instead  

Ok so for what it’s worth and with my football manager hat on this is what I would do IF we manage to hang on to our league status.

Goalkeepers
              
Jake Kean- return to parent club
Ben Killip- offer new one year contract, decent young back up keeper.
James McKeown- offer new 2 year deal. Has improved this season and with a better back 4 in front should concede less.
                  
Defenders      
            
Danny Collins - release
Nathan Clarke - release
Ben Davies - release
Paul Dixon - transfer list
Andrew Fox - offer new one year deal, proved to be capable enough at L2 level
Reece Hall-Johnson - offer one year deal with option for second year, potential and versatility
Jack Keeble - release
Zak Mills - new 2 year deal deal. Good right back and can cover centre half, could be developed in this position in my opinion.
Karleigh Osborne - release
Easah Suliman - return to parent club
                  
Midfielders                  
James Berrett - release
Chris Clements - release
Harry Clifton - one year deal with option for second year.
Sean McAllister - release
Mitch Rose - already contracted
Tom Sawyer - release
Luke Summerfield - new one year deal, been one of our better players
                  
Wingers
            
Siriki Dembele - take up optional year on deal
Diallang Jaiyesimi - return to parent club
Sam Kelly - transfer list
Gary McSheffrey - release  
Martyn Woolford - release
Max Wright - new one year deal with option for second year
                  
Forwards  
              
Harry Cardwell - already contracted
JJ Hooper - transfer list
Simeon Jackson - return to parent club
Jamille Matt - return to parent club
Ahkeem Rose - release if work permit issue is still unresolved
Charles Vernam - attempt to sign, either loan or permanent
Scott Vernon - release
Mallik Wilks - return to parent club

This would leave us with 14 professionals at the club if the players offered new deals opted to stay and if Vernam signed, 3 of those on the transfer list. Hopefully there will be 2 or 3 youth team lads who will be offered pro contracts as well.

I then think we’ll need 3 centre halves, possible cover at left back, 2 central midfielders, 2 wingers and 2 strikers.

That’s my rough workings out anyway.