Snowflake RoyalCavershamRoyalSCIAG Personally I'd find it too hard to do that exercise because it depends on unknowns like wages and whether we can identify replacements.
Dann, Long, and Moore are pretty obvious "gos", unless they're willing to agree below-average wages.
Joao is better than anyone else we are likely to get in, but would probably receive an offer we can't keep up with. Probably similar from Meite.
Lumley is not up to this level and should be the first one out the door. Loum, Hendrick, and Fornah are good enough, but WCBAP - and while they're quite different players, not sure it makes sense to have both Hendrick and Hutchinson as geriatric midfielders. Rahman might be the best we can do in his position, but he's rarely lived up to his reputation and wouldn't warrant anything close to his Chelsea wages. Hoilett has looked very useful this season and we can certainly get another year out of him.
Tetek's injuries are a concern, but he's still very young, cheap, and has looked good in those occasional appearances.
Lumley, Rotherham away aside, has been one of our best performers. He’s definitely won us more points than he’s lost. Has made some really good saves to keep us in games recently, and I hope that we offer him a contract in the summer. Not sure we’ll get anyone much better.
Don't agree that's at all the case.
Holmes and Ince streets ahead of him.
In fact I'd say Lumley is consistently one of our middling performers. And when you look at most the saves he's made, they're routine, and few of the goals he's let in are worldies.
And just for Hound, though I set no stall by it, he's 15th on our player average ratings on whoscored.com @6.46... pretty much the exemplar rating for average performer.
It's also got the all-loved NGW at 20th (out of 28), Ejaria 12th and Hoilett 3rd (all of these not including cups). I think it's just another example of opinions (and stats) in football.
I wouldn't say Lumley has been one of our best performers, but has done a decent job really bar Rotherham away. Would be worth signing him in the summer on a free and for the wages he would cost. If someone better comes up, which there might be, then yes we can pursue them. But is doing well for us in the main.