2019 Starting lineup?

[YoungR1]

Yes agree selling Freeman is a given really. Be happy with around 6M if we can get it. That would help finance a few deals.

[Shepherds Mush]

Need a new spare GK, new CB, new LB, new CM and a new striker at the least.

Feel a few more departures on the horizon and they will be the ones to generate some dough (Freeman / Luongo / Smith possibly)

[LoftusRoadLad]

No one mentioning our striker Walker. Been told he is young but good ?

[Abseits]

Can't BOS play up front? Can't see point in him tearing up and down the wing when he could be utilizing that pace to strike into the heart of opponent's defence..... Reckon he could run rings round most CBs and cause carnage. Wasn't Thierry Henry a winger until Wenger bunged him up front?
irrespective of that, I don't mind that XI and think it would do okay - only issue would be lack of anything on the bench.

[Shepherds Mush]

Can't BOS play up front? Can't see point in him tearing up and down the wing when he could be utilizing that pace to strike into the heart of opponent's defence.....

You've seen his finishing yeah ?

Personally think he will be a massive player for us but I'd be reluctant to move another player out of their favoured position after the Pavel confidence sapping by Holloway.

[stanistheman]

Assuming we lose Freeman and Luongo, and in light of today's departures, here's what the starting XI could look like short of a recruit or two coming in.

G Lumley
RB Rangel
CB Furlong
CB Leistener
LB Manning
DM Scowen
MID Chair
MID BOS
MID Eze
F Oteh
F Smyth).
Off the bench: Smith, Shodipo, Kakay, Hamalainen, Hall, 2 others

With that said, our two top priorities in the recruitment game (given we could play BOS at either forward or midfield): LB and CM

Hope we have a better team than that to put out on match days.

the defence might just about be ok, but the midfield looks weak to me. BOS and Eze are attackers not midfield and those 4 attackers will struggle to get 25 goals between them.

I expect Warburton will be trying his best to bring in some experience and perhaps some promising young Premiership players on loan (like the ones Villa Derby and one or 2 other clubs got in this season).

[Shepherds Mush]

Hope we have a better team than that to put out on match days.

the defence might just about be ok, but the midfield looks weak to me. BOS and Eze are attackers not midfield and those 4 attackers will struggle to get 25 goals between them.

I expect Warburton will be trying his best to bring in some experience and perhaps some promising young Premiership players on loan (like the ones Villa Derby and one or 2 other clubs got in this season).

Agree. You can't have Chair and Eze just as you can't have Freeman and Eze (IMO)...need a more solid centre. Plus if Manning is LB next season we might as well give up. He is a midfielder pure and simple (a step up on Luongo IMO) but a stop-gap LB. Get a specialist LB in otherwise the teams with better wingers than Alan Armstrong will have a field day.