IT’S inevitable that Rudy Gestede and Jordan Rhodes will attract interest this summer.

Rudy has already come out and said he wants to play in the Premier League again and I’m sure there are clubs monitoring his situation because he’s had a fantastic season.

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And any player who consistently scores 20 goals a season, like Jordan has done, is always going to have his admirers.

That’s why I don’t think it would come as a big surprise if one was to leave before the start of next season.

But, with the embargo, would we even be able to bring in a replacement other than on a loan or on a free? It’s tricky.

That’s why, if we can keep both, we have to build a team around them.

I think Gary Bowyer is right when he says he needs more pace and experience in his side.

Pace would be a fantastic addition but it’s difficult to get because that’s what every other club is looking for too.

Experience is easier to come by and hopefully the lads we’ve already got, who are 23, 24, will step up too as they’ve had another year of Championship football under their belts.

But next season what I would like to see most is more consistency in our style of play.

We’ve got two strikers who have scored more than 40 goals between them but in the second half of the season they did not play that much together.

It was very much mix and match and, while I know in today’s game you have to do that, I think sometimes you’ve just got to get your best players in the same side, the players who will score you the goals.

Jordan needed help and we brought Rudy in and then all of a sudden he started scoring goals too and we thought, ‘wow, we’ve got two prolific strikers now’.

But there is no point Jordan being an impact player off the bench. The same goes with Rudy.

If one or either is not on the field you take away goals or, at least, a goal threat.

We’ve got to build a style of play that suits them both best and get them linking up better as well.

The only problem we’ve got, as a team that didn’t get promoted, is that other clubs will be looking at them.

For now you’ll get odd bits of speculation here and there but it won’t be until the play-offs are done and dusted, and we know who is going up and who is coming down, that things will hot up.

So it’s a case of waiting to see what happens but, as I say, if they are to stay, we have to build the team around them.