Brucey's Summer Shopping List

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I don't see it personally. Didn't really think we were planning on spending £15million on players tbh. Unless we're planning on offloading a lot.
 
Tommytiger said:
Neither would I. When you see the two amounts for both players together, it seems like a lot, but when you consider that we're looking to spend just over £4m on a defender and a goalkeeper, it'd take our Summer spending to £13m, which is probably about right in my opinion. If our purchases are:

McGregor: £1.8m
Davies: £2.25m
Hooper: £5m
Austin: £4m
Cattermole: £2m
Elmo: £2m
Montero: £3.5m
Back up goalie £1m

That's £21.5m spent on revamping the squad, which I think would then be competitive. It seems like a lot of money when you add it up, but it's worth it when you consider how much we spent in our first season in the PL and what it went on. (Amounts with a * are approximate values)

***an £750,000
Halmosi £2.3m*
Boateng £1m*
Gardner £2.5m
Oxley £150,00
Cousin £1m*
Bullard £5m
Kilbane £500,000
Zayatte £2.5m
Mouyokolo: £2.5m*

That adds up to £18m and it was on total dross. Our best players came from frees (Georgie B aside), such as Geo and Mendy, while I imagine we also paid a loan fee for Marlon King. Our crap choice in players nearly cost us that season; the owners know how much staying in this league is worth to them as a business and to us as fans and I expect them to recruit accordingly; if it means spending a little more to remain a PL team then I don't think they'll be afraid to do it.
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And you've missed Maynor Figueroa from that first list, he may well turn out to be the signing of the season on a free.
 
It'd seem a bit weird to me if it's an either or between Hooper and Austin. They're totally different players so why would be looking at just one of them to fill the same gap?
 
Tommytiger said:
It's a possibility, he'd be ample replacement for Austin at Burnley as he's a proven Championship goalscorer.

We still need to offload McLean, anybody know where he's off to? He'd probably get 20 a season in Scotland....
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He's far from a proven Championship goalscorer.


He's had almost 200 games in the Championship and he's scored 49 goals. He's never managed more than 16 goals a season.
 
Andy King's Crown Jewels said:
He's far from a proven Championship goalscorer.

He's had almost 200 games in the Championship and he's scored 49 goals. He's never managed more than 16 goals a season.
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In the past four seasons(ignoring the last one which he completely missed through injury), he's scored 38 goals in 109 games, that's 1 in every 2.86 games.

It's a decent record, in fact, Nugent hasn't managed to match it in his past four seasons.
 
PLT said:
It'd seem a bit weird to me if it's an either or between Hooper and Austin. They're totally different players so why would be looking at just one of them to fill the same gap?
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I agree, I think Brucey will try and sign both of them. Whether or not we can is a different matter. There's also Odemwingie available if AA says we're spending too much.
 
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