Good signing. Should provide decent competition for Cork and Morgan.
Davis, Forecast, Richardson, Butterfield, Fonte, Hooiveld, Seaborne, Fox, Harding, Dickson, De Ridder, Guly, Puncheon, Chaplow, Davis, Cork, Morgan, Hammond, Lallana, Lee, J-Rod, Sharp, Lambert, Barnard, Forte. Unless I've missed anyone out, I count that as exactly twenty-five players. So for every extra person that we sign from here on in - and Buttner would appear to 99% done - one of those twenty-five will have to make way.
Forecast and Forte are clearly the two obvious ones. I don't think anyone is expecting or hoping or even just suggesting that they'll be given a go in the PL. On top of them, I'd say there's probably up to another, maybe, nine players who one could make an arguement for letting go.