Realistically how much will these three cost. Three of our best players and we own none of them. One of the reasons I hate loaning people. Ki £8 mil Borini. £10 mil Alonso £4 mil (not sure if we have an agreement on this on) If those prices are right then that's £22 mil. Striker needed on top of that, perhaps centre half or would we be happy in summer with those three made permanent?
If Laudraup is there at the end of the season, I think we can get Ki for 6-8million, I would love Borini playing for us, he is a class act, and I hope he doesn't want to go sit on the bench for Liverpool as he is better than that. I reckon we could get him for 7-8million. And would love Alonso. Defensivily not the greatest, but loves attacking and adds something to the left side. If we get these 3 sduring the summer, i will be very happy. These 3 play very well with how Gus set's us up, so will prove to be effective in our team. Add in a couple more quality players, with Jack signing a new contract, and we will be good.
Like Mourinho said "We have every position filled with the present and the future". Our development squad could be very important to us, saying as we don't have the funds to go out and buy two players for every position. So if we can focus on a strong first team with fringe players and a few young players with big potential as back up, then surely this is the way forward... The other youngsters who are regarded as 'only very good or less', then sell on after sending them on loan and touting them out. Use that money to put back into the first team.
22 million is relatively small fry in today's market IMO getting these 3 on permanent contracts is a must. To me all loan deals that we bring in should have the option to buy.
If it's 22 it's 22. Buying players who have proved that they can do the job and want to be here at that price is still good value. It's would be easy to spend that kind of money taking a punt and hoping it all works out. For once, it could be that we can make the loan system work for us.....just sign all 3, class does not come cheap and from what i've seen all 3 are class.
