Barry-Murphy said he has been given assurances that he is under no pressure to allow any of the players to leave. Indeed, he has been told the vast majority of this squad will be here come the end of the summer.
“Perry Ng, Yousef Salech, Callum O'Dowda, Alex Robertson and others will not be sold.”
Friday 19th June 2025
Barry-Murphy:
"The key message I had was that there was no pressure to sell any player in the squad," he said. "A key process moving forward is, anything we want to improve in the club, I have the absolute support of the people at the top of the club to do that. That will be the mantra of pre-season and beyond.”
“I have plenty of time now to get to know my squad and what they are capable of.”
“We will be able to start pre-season knowing where we are and how strong we are.”
“We have no intentions of selling any of our younger players as they are the future of this club.”
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Perry Ng, Yousef Salech, Callum O'Dowda, Alex Robertson and others are bound to have caught a few glances from admirers, too. But, laying out his transfer plan, Barry-Murphy said he has been given assurances that he is under no pressure to allow any of those players to leave. Indeed, he has been told the vast majority of this squad will be here come the end of the summer.
"The key message I had was that there was no pressure to sell any player in the squad," he said. "A key process moving forward is, anything we want to improve in the club, I have the absolute support of the people at the top of the club to do that. That will be the mantra of pre-season and beyond.
"I’m really pleased with the squad and excited to start working with them next Monday. The most important factor for me was the assurance that a large number of this playing squad, which I know really well — players I've either worked with before or seen from the outside — are going to remain here.
"Any players we lose are going to be on our terms, not because we have to sell players, and that's really important."
He added: "We should be really clear from the start. The idea is that we want to do things on our terms. It's a really simple process.”
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