For me Lambo was only to be a bit player anyway,34m for shaw for 0 goals,1 assist is too much for him and we can replace for a fraction of that....but Lallana was/is a game changer I just hope we can find a suitable replacement.
Lallana's a really good player and suited our system very well (for around 60 minutes at a time). He wasn't Maradona though. I think we can absolutely replace him.
What would I spend £56M on? I would invest half on fast cars and loose women and the rest, I would just squander.
**** it I would just spend all our money on a huge stadium, bigger than any other club in the world! Who's cares if we cant fill it. We can say ours is bigger than yours! We might grow into it given time
Okay, here we go, using all of my FM experience. GK Have a chat with Ochoa about what sort of contract he might want. Make insultingly low bids to Cardiff for Marshall and gauge their reactions. Enquire about Forster. Order of preference: 1. Marshall 2. Forster 3. Ochoa Deciding factor: don't want to spend over £5m. DL Take a better look at Kolodziejcak and Andrew Robertson. Decide who is better and bid for that one. DC Enquire about the following players, in order of preference: De Vrij, Martins Indi, Astori, Van Dijk. Sign two of them. No ideas about attacking players yet. Needs more thought.
Problem is, everyone knows we have £56m (*) to spend, and that we have to buy players to cover the holes in the squad, so if we buy, say, a £10m player, it'll set us back £12m. Plus even if we do buy a bunch of quality players to fill in the gaps, there's no guarantee that they'll gel into a team. (Yer honour, I call before the court Exhibit A: Queens Park Rangers. May it also please to remind yer honour of the recent case of Tottenham Hotspur vs the Bale millions!) What p*sses me off is the arrogance of the so-called "big clubs" No-one else is ever allowed to foster any of their own talent and make a decent go of it. If Stoke or Sunderland or Villa had had the season we just enjoyed, they'd have lost half their squad too. And if no-one the Premiership pack can't ever hope to keep ahold of their talent, how are we ever going to challenge the status quo? Personally I'd love to see a couple of the big clubs go bankrupt on their own hubris, so that we can have a level playing field. Onto the positives: Is Taggert ready for LB yet? Could Chambers switch? Can JWP or Gaston step up to fill the creative midfielder role? Is anyone else coming through the ranks? Sadly, I fear next season will be one in which we'll be looking over our shoulder, I just hope that Koeman doesn't become the fall guy. (*) Even more if (though I say it through gritted teeth) we lose Schneiderlin and/or Lovren.
Well, now we are the richest slightly smaller club in the UK. That £27M drop in the ocean disappeared as soon as. And anyway, it had been accounted for, only the present Board made it seem as if it hadn't. So now we have to get in cheaper foreign players who want to play in the PL to make up for our English players who want to play in Europe, but not actually have to go there and learn the lingo. And also not have to be paid less. Says so much about those empty words... I love playing football so much, I'd do it for nothing, if I could... which the late Bobby Moore is said to have uttered in interview, back in older, possibly more golden, times. I don't care who we spend it upon. I would just like to obtain players who can help us do the double over Liverpool and ManU next season. And especially while all the transferred players are in the opposition line-up. That would be a fitting goodbye kiss.
If we sell Lovren and Morgan quickly for a combined £55m. Add the £55 from Luke and Adam. Add the £60m transfer kitty. We could try and bring Bale back for £170m. Play the youth in the other areas that we haven't covered with new signings. We would be really famous for it. I know it sounds stupid but it got Spurs top 5 for a couple of years.
Swans are signing Gomis it seems as a replacement. Not sure if there's been noises from the Bony camp?
