At a guess I would say they have roughly £85m wiggly room before ffp bites them hard. If they can't shift the unwanted ones.
£85m was their last Caicedo bid that was rejected a while back and since then they haven't been back officially.
Lavia at £55m and Adams at £20m, £75m together, looks like their backup plan.
Pulling out of the Adams deal, when it was virtually done, would suggest they need that £20m to even get close to matching our bid. Also came after the agent hinted they still wanted Chelsea.
The rest would have to made up of sales, £30mish, which is why their delaying as they'll need to gain that from at least one of the unwanted players.
Think they missed the boat on selling Zieych to the Saudi's. The Saudi spending seems to have died down now they've kicked off. But this does seem to be their best option for revenue.
Lukaku is stuck imo, none of the Italian clubs want to actual pay for him and there seems to be little interest elsewhere.
Hudson-Odoi, not worth £30m, not worth £10m these days. Made a massive mistake not selling him to Bayern a while back.
Can't see them being able to get both Lavia and Caicedo. Its either Lavia plus one other or Caicedo solo.
Comes a point where the player will have to make a decision the long it goes on.
well, the issue is I don't really but this as
a) they literally just paid 23mil for sanchez then let kepa go off on loan. they did not need to do either if they were tight on ffp and really wanted caicedo at 85mil.
b) they bought nkunku and jackson for over 100mil
c) they went out and replaced fofana with that lad who scored last week. thats 40mil again from nowhere.
d) they bought Ugochukwu for 25mil as well.
e) they are courting olise from palace extremely hard.
so they dumped Adam on the alter after agreeing a 20mil fee right after they heard the needed to pay 100 for caicedo.
I think they have the money or I should say don't care about ffp.
as players get injury or are not shiny any more another player is bought.
they're team was granted the run of the park by out lot with no closing down and no space filling and they actually got worse with each sub on. it was astounding.
imo they know exactly what they are at here, all the stories on twitter are coming directly from them.
caicedo is on their paid list with his agent so he will absolutely sign for nobody else until they gilt him too. they have all the time in the world with thst deal amd are playing the game with lavia who they didn't really want
imo they would spend 200mil more this window and not blink.
