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With the squad getting closer to what we need there's absolutely room to spend big on a player now. The issue is more when you spend big and there's a lot work to be done. Like the summer after we signed nobody the prior year and we spent big on Ndombele and Lo Celso. We had a lot of work to do on the squad so needed to spend better on more depth. I think we're very close to being there now, maybe not just yet but could be.
The thing with Rice as an example is that arsenal had already built their squad over the years. Spending 110m on a player doesn't hurt so much when you only need a few signings. The one position I think we need to go strong on in the summer would be an attacker. If we have to spend big on a proven Son mk 2 then for sure we should. I'm sure with ffp we have room to spend 100m each window. We should get to a point where the squad is strong and we just need a top player or two for the first team and some cheap young prospects.
The thing with Rice as an example is that arsenal had already built their squad over the years. Spending 110m on a player doesn't hurt so much when you only need a few signings. The one position I think we need to go strong on in the summer would be an attacker. If we have to spend big on a proven Son mk 2 then for sure we should. I'm sure with ffp we have room to spend 100m each window. We should get to a point where the squad is strong and we just need a top player or two for the first team and some cheap young prospects.