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Or you could hope we get him and he's the next salah?
If that happens then brilliant. If we sign him and he flops, how long before Kane, Eriksen, Poch get twitchy about our ambitions, wondering 'have we hit the glass ceiling', etc...
Even if we pull off a 'statement signing' like Martial and it doesn't quite work out on the pitch, those same people are likely to still see the initial signing as a sign of the growth of the club and its ambitions. You may shrug stuff like that off but it's clear from that Rose interview last season that players do notice it.
Anyway as Herc said Plea is just one of many options so it's time to just kick back until the ITK starts coming through again, hopefully in a week or two. World Cup is definitely slowing things. I'm still hopeful we use our improved financial power and draw this summer to have a stronger squad come 9th August.