He did but his latest info suggests net spend of around 30/50M or so. Not sure what has changed except possibly bigger expectations as to what we may get for our sales ?
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He did but his latest info suggests net spend of around 30/50M or so. Not sure what has changed except possibly bigger expectations as to what we may get for our sales ?
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If that is the case, we will probably look at the young players like KWP, Onomah etc...to fill squad
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Don't hold your breath, World Cup year is manna from heaven for shortstuff
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I don't get this mentality.
100+ million net spend means we are adding serious quality, as player sales likely take it closer to 200m.
200m x 4 players is basically what City did last summer. 100m x 4 players is basically what we did with the Bale money. One is title challenge, the other is Europa league.
I thought we are in the Champions League for the third consecutive year.
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If my memory serves me correct our ~100m gross spend in 2013 got us 6th and into the Europa the following year.
CL is all on Poch.
CL is all on Poch.
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To be fair, although De Ligt is ridiculously priced it shouldn't matter too much what we spend as long as we buy all the players who are good enough and sell those who aren't. If we've spent over £100m and can recoup that through selling players that Poch doesn't want then why wouldn't we do that? As Poch has seemingly been saying, he wants us to get all our targets beforehand anyway, so in that case it won't matter if the budget is pre or post sales.
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Like others I'd rather spend £70m on Savic.
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At some points during the season some of our players, full internationals in some cases, wern't even making the 18 match day squad.
Of course it makes sense to condense the squad a touch, but improve it considerably in the areas that need strengthened.
Not bothered how the figures breakdown, providing we acquire a high quality CM, another forward and another CB if Alderweireld goes.
Of course it makes sense to condense the squad a touch, but improve it considerably in the areas that need strengthened.
Not bothered how the figures breakdown, providing we acquire a high quality CM, another forward and another CB if Alderweireld goes.
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Here is what I think, and it is probably going to be right, wrong or in between. I think we have 150-170M to spend on signings (or some unprecedented high figure) as soon as any dealings can be done. Then, we have players to offload. Player sales won't increase the budget for new signings, but equally the budget for new signings won't be reduced in the rare event that we don't sell (any) players. We can buy for approx 150M, and those millions must be financed one way or the other. But it doesn't have to be in firm player sales before we can buy. The gross sum is the gross sum, what the net will end up being is unknown at this point. (IM not so fudging humble O).
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All well and good but will it mean our choice of CM is then compromised?
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People love to moan more than they love the club.
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Spending that also goes against what both Levy and Poch have said about spending that much money on a player (see poch’s Book).
Let’s see what happens.
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tbh some of us thought 40m+ for sanchez was ridiculous too. now looks like a bargain as the price tag would be similar if we didn't go for him last year. but i don't think de ligt would go for 70m
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Guys, no one has a bloody clue how much we’ll spend this summer. It doesn’t work like that. There’s no “war chest”. Payments are paid over instalments, they’re amortised over lengths of contracts, etc. Levy will likely have a figure in mind as a “headline” net outlay but it all depends on the details, how it’s structured, how long contracts are, etc. Furthermore there’s absolutely no way that player sales won’t make a difference. If we raise an extra £50m than expected by selling Lamela/Sissoko for example, that will impact on funds for signings.
All I took from Herc’s ITK is that we’re prepared to spend more than we ever have in a window and we won’t necessarily wait to sell first.
How on earth some of you are turning that into a negative I don’t know!
All I took from Herc’s ITK is that we’re prepared to spend more than we ever have in a window and we won’t necessarily wait to sell first.
How on earth some of you are turning that into a negative I don’t know!
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Yes. It's like people think clubs are awarded extra points for being awful negotiators.
If the club swapped neymar for Sissoko, I'd probably still be reading pages complaints about net spend
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