Lee Johnson needs TWELVE Hibs signings and the same amount of duds should be shown the door - Tam McManus

There's a calm before the summer storm at every football club during close-season and Hibs are about to be hit by a hurricane this summer.

A new manager, a ruthless approach with as many as a dirty dozen new faces arriving and the same amount being shown the exit door.

Every squad requires a bit of surgery after each season but after the last ten months in Leith, it'll need a complete transplant of new talent if Lee Johnson 's to survive and prosper in his new job.

It's already starting to happen with the news Drey Wright won't be retained and nobody who's deemed surplus to requirements can have any complaints after the dismal failure of the season just past which cost both Jack Ross and Shaun Maloney their positions.

Watch this space, in the coming weeks I fully expect to be writing an 'I told you so' column about a manager who's about to clear the decks.

Johnson will have discovered he has a lot of players out of contract. Sean Mackie, Alex Gogic and Scott Allan are all on the way out, loan deals for Sylvester Jasper, James Scott and Rocky Bushiri are also up and I don't expect any interest in any of them to be followed-up.

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