I get we're just talking about the players we have but you have to remember our budget is going to change, we don't know who else is available, we don't know who Murray has a good relationship and might be able to tempt here... There's obviously some players for us who are very good at this level and who all else being equal you'd want to keep, but all else isn't equal. What if we re-sign a guy like Longridge now, then in a month's time someone better gets released and Murray otherwise has a chance of signing him?
I used to believe it was important to get the nucleus of the squad signed up early but I'm less and less convinced of that now. At our level of football the raw materials will matter more. Lopata-White probably met the others for the first time shortly before his debut and he looked the part from the outset. Plenty of other opportunities like that are going to present themselves.
For me there's no room for sentiment and as much as I think the likes of Blues are good guys who have served the club extremely well I'm also not going to fall over myself to say they should be renewed before May.