NOTTS County should sell their No.1 Bartosz Bialkowski. It's not as crazy as it sounds.
Yes, the Pole has been one of the Magpies' outstanding players this season and, yes, he is plainly Championship-quality.
But Notts don't have a lot of cash to rebuild the first team for next season and they do have Fabian Spiess – and for those two reasons, boss Chris Kiwomya should consider the brave decision to cash in on Bialkowski and put his faith in the young German.
The Magpies are already going to take a big hit when Alan Judge leaves Meadow Lane for nothing when his contract ends in the summer, which he almost certainly will.
If Matt Ritchie, who beat Judge to the League One Player of the Year accolade is worth £500,000 then so too is the Irish midfielder.
But Notts will not get a penny for him because he will leave on a Bosman free transfer.
Bialkowski, in contrast, has two years left on his contract with the Magpies, having arrived at Meadow Lane on a three-year deal from Southampton last summer, and he would be worth a hell of a lot of cash after the performances he has produced this season.
He will surely have attracted interest from Championship clubs and if Kiwomya's transfer budget was boosted by a few hundred grand then Notts could fork out for a top-class, proven, goalscorer to fire their ambitions next season, which they have so badly lacked during this campaign.
Spiess is a readymade replacement, having this season thoroughly justified the hype that has surrounded him ever since he was in the Centre of Excellence.
Every time he has been given a chance, he has shone and he looks every inch ready to be the No.1 at Meadow Lane.
It would be a bold decision by Kiwomya and a lot of fans would be in uproar if Bialkowski went, insisting it showed a lack of ambition from the club, but it wouldn't.
Since being given a three-year deal in the hot seat, Kiwomya has talked a lot about his desire to give young players their chance if they are good enough.
Spiess is the best young player at the club, he is good enough and he would rise to the challenge of being first choice, even at 19.
He would go to waste sitting on the subs' bench again next season.
That aside, it's 'deal or no deal' time for a lot of players at Meadow Lane, though a lot of the decisions over players' futures should be quite straightforward for Kiwomya to make, if he hasn't already.
It's quite simple really. Jeff Hughes should definitely be offered a new contract.
He has not quite reached the same levels this season as he did during the last campaign, in which he scored a career-record 17 goals when Notts just missed out on the play-offs, but that's because he has been played out of position time and time again.
Maybe if he had been played in his best position, one where he can exert maximum influence, the Magpies would be a lot higher in the League One table than mid-table.
Full-backs Alan Sheehan and Julian Kelly should also be offered new deals, and maybe Joss Labadie, purely because he has not really been given a chance and, at 22, he clearly has potential.
He showed that when he went out on loan to Torquay United, scoring four goals in seven league games for The Gulls, which led to questions about why he was allowed to leave in the first place.
Sheehan has shown he is a dependable player, after two seasons at left-back, and while Kelly has his injury problems when he's fit he is a brilliantly adventurous right-back.
Most of the rest should be let go, led by French striker Yoann Arquin, a striker who promised so much this season, but has ultimately failed to deliver.
After he scored six goals in his first 16 games for the club, he was being talked about as the 20-goal striker Notts need to fire them into the Championship.
But he has netted just twice since November and his attitude and work-rate is highly questionable, with Kiwomya wanting hardworking, passionate players.
If Arquin goes, he will certainly be followed out of the exit door by a few more in a summer of big changes at Meadow Lane. Yet again.
