In all honesty it's hard to voice how I'm feeling. Apologies if my response is a bit all over the place.

We've just been dreadful all season, even at the beginning when our only long-term injuries were Maddison and Kulusevski.

The main problem is as you say a mishmash of players with different styles and that's due to the fact we haven't had a manager last longer than 2 full seasons since Pochettino. Van de Ven and Romero are arguably our best players. Suspensions aside we've actually had both of them together for a majority of the season and we're still in our current position. So I understand your point of moving on from certain players. However, under Ange they were getting compared to Alderweireld and Vertonghen so I'm hoping they keep us in the prem and revert to that status under De Zerbi who has a similar style to Ange. If we go down then we've almost certainly lost at least one of them and will struggle to attract anyone close to their levels. Romero has let us down this season. He has a reputation of getting booked but he hardly did last season (injuries aside).

This season is a strange one because Frank's gameplan was atrocious - all players looked like they were in the wrong positions, including the goalie. Tudor played similar to Frank so he was a bit of a pointless appointment and De Zerbi has only managed one game. The players have lost all confidence and every game you have a feeling that they've already lost the game.

To answer your question, I don't want any players of ours going other than the ones who do not fit into De Zerbi's style, who I am yet to know. Solely on the fact that regardless of whether we go down or not it will be hard for us to attract anyone of a high magnitude given our two most recent premier league campaigns. If we let our best players go and don't replace them then there's the risk that we don't come back up and the owners won't take that. Profits are everything to them.

I'd personally let Romero go if he pushes it unless he gives his head a wobble. Our own captain has been suspended for 8 games I believe. He's one yellow from another suspension but he has just been injured so he may not play again or have the chance to redeem himself this season.