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I think we need 5 new players on top of the current numbers so technically 8 to cover the 3 loanees we lose automatically.

Going to need a larger depth to the squad to dela with the Thurs/Sunday combos up to Xmas. It's been the undoing of all non OF teams competing in Europe for years now.

Get the cheque book oot Bill Foley!
Assuming Boyle stays, Megwa is in the squad next season, and guys like Jair, Delf, Vente won't be part of the plan and leave in some way then we have 18 first team players over 21 on the books with a 25 man squad to fill. The issue is that we only have 2 out of 4 club trained players over 21 next season in Campbell + Megwa, and 6 out of 8 association trained players signed up. That means we'd need to leave 2 spaces empty in our registration to account for it.

We'd only really be able to sign, by my poor maths, 5 to replace (or could retain) Gayle, Myko, Triantis, Hoilett, Rocky, and Bursik. So you can already see how tight it will be to extend the squad further from where it actually is currently. That being said if the rumours of Porteous coming back are true then that would allow us to sign 6 players as he ticks all the registration boxes so you can already see the benefit of making that move from just a logistics point of view.