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I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
Okay, hear me out on this one.

Let's say that Les Reed is actually pretty good at his real job of evaluating talent, but the players hate him. Let's also say that Krueger is also pretty good at his actual job of handling non-football stuff, but the players don't respect him/care because he's not a football guy. When MP was here, it wasn't a problem because players mostly interact with their manager and they liked MP.

Koeman has the stature as both player and manager to talk to the players and win their trust as well as stand up to Reed and Krueger if need be. Reed and Krueger maybe don't even care because they have their titles and money and get to do what they want to do instead of having to deal with those pesky, whiny players all the time. So that stabilizes the whole front office/exec vs players situation. Maybe Fonte and Cork still want new contracts, fine. Sign 'em. Probably not a big deal.

We probably still lose Shaw, but we get 30m. We manage to hang on to Lallana and the others. This gives us 80m in transfers. Koeman convinces De Vrij to come here at a cost of 15m. We replace Shaw with a boring LB who doesn't have Shaw's potential but is probably close to as good as Shaw is now or at least average/solid by PL standards for 10m (and we could probably do this for much less, honestly).

We've now got a stable club, a manager who could reasonably be as good or better as Pochettino. We've accomplished the goal of bringing in a CB. This leaves us still with 55m to bring in an awesome striker, and let's say a young, promising GK who doesn't mind being a backup for a year or two. 20m should bring us a pretty good striker, and 10m should bring us an good, young GK. And we STILL have 25m to spend should we wish on any other interesting opportunities come our way.

That's kind of exciting, isn't it?
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Good analysis. Feyeonord have some good players that might follow Koeman as well. Two good CBS in Kongolo and Indi. Clasie good Lallana replacement if required too.
 
We won't be spending £80m in one transfer window, and there's a good chance we'll keep Shaw as far as I'm concerned, so I'm going to keep assuming it's £50m at the very most.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see De Vrij come in if he's decided he wants to leave the club, and I would love Martins Indi as well, though obviously we wouldn't sign both. We may have yet another summer of being linked with Astori as well, as it seems he'll go for about £8m, and I'd definitely still like him.

Two new strikers are needed really, and at one has to be a really top player. That's where the big money should go. Keeper, yep, but not too expensive, and at least one more creative option in the attacking mid/wing area.
 
I don't se us spending anywhere near that either. If we don't sell anyone else then i think less than £20 million may be available. Then again there is still the Osvaldo thing to sort out. What happens to him if Koeman does come here? And if he gets sold regardless, how much for?

That sendoff from Feyenoord video is pretty crazy. Although i expect a big part of that is because of his playing career. Still, you can't argue that he isn't a popular guy. He does seem to conduct himself very well also. He would be a class act here for sure!
 
SaintStinger said:
I don't se us spending anywhere near that either. If we don't sell anyone else then i think less than £20 million may be available. Then again there is still the Osvaldo thing to sort out. What happens to him if Koeman does come here? And if he gets sold regardless, how much for?

That sendoff from Feyenoord video is pretty crazy. Although i expect a big part of that is because of his playing career. Still, you can't argue that he isn't a popular guy. He does seem to conduct himself very well also. He would be a class act here for sure!
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Obviously he was well respected for his international career, but he played for Feyenoords main rivals in PSV & Ajax so I expect he would have had to convince some of the die hards
 
My only concern ref RonALD , IS HE NEVER SEEMS TO STAY IN ONE PLACE FOR LONG , IS THAT WHAT WE REALLY NEED AT THE MOMENT ?

Bloody caps lock .

I blame the new keypad !!!
 
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