He will be starting ahead of Mundle imo, he's played top flight football in some top leagues majority of his career and is wanted by Roma and Marseille. He's a quality player. Mundle is our only left winger; we have zero other left wingers. He also had two hamstring injuries in the same season. We are in the PL, and to me personally, you need 2 good players on both flanks, competition and good quality depth is crucial
We absolutely could do it without breaching PSR. Amortised over 5 years its only £40m per year and that will be offset by the sale of Hjelde for £80m next year and Poveda for £90m in year 3. I do think the total outlay will be around the £100-120m mark though.
No that figure includes the parachute payments that would be due to us in the years after relegation. I know Kieran Maguire has talked about that figure too, but it was a very general estimate based on some broad assumptions. Best guess is we can afford to make a loss of around £60-70m on next year's accounts without breaching PSR. I'd probably be looking at us committing around £120-140m in fees this summer. It certainly won't be a free-for-all though.
I reckon we will be comfortable spending about £100m But i'm basing that on nothing but gut instinct. No maths or knowledge involved
Ghisolfi only left Roma next week. Its very plausible he's serving a notice period and won't "join" us until thats up. But I reckon the reality is he's already started work, even if mostly from home in France / Italy.
Talking to a Scottish fella I've known for years, his brother has connections at Rangers. Literally came out with it, out of the blue. I doubted it, but just thought I'd see if anyone else had heard anything.
Got to say i'm very excited about this one, usually when a source like that says we are in talks it's a lot closer in reality