We'll have to. its that or be happy to wave goodbye for nothing and then look at FSG to produce 20mil for his replacement
The only reason we actually got VVD and alisson is coutinho going. lets be honest about it.
Robbo, salah and ox arrive for a total of 75mil or so and we sold stewart, lucas, sakho, wisdom and made cash on sturridge and torigi loans. about40mil as i recall. that was a net of 35mil
Then in the january coutinho leaves for 140 odd mil or something stupid and magically vvd arrives for 75mil. in any moans money there's 60mil to spend right there to add to whetver 40mil we might have had already.
The following summer guess what. Alsisson, fabinho, shaqiri, keita arrive. 160mil spend or there abouts but we sell solanke for 19mil, ward for 12, and made a few loans so this is the only time we've really pushed the boat out in a window with about 70mil spend not 40mil
The following 2 windows we then spend nothing at all hardly and take in 30mil to geuss what? balance the 40mil per year spend amount.
We actually did quite well to get thiago, jota and tsimikas on installment paymens but these were again 20,45 and 12 = 78mil and we offset that with lovern and ejaria leaving so spend was about 50mil.
What do we do this summer. konate in and then sell off wilson, awoniyi, shaqiri, and grujic to end up balancing the books again with a really low net spend.
If we want a big signing someone is leaving to pay for it. IF we are looking at the cycle we might spend up to 80mil this next summer but we will end up paying for it the following year by not spending as much.
if salah ****s off on a free at age 31 and doesn't sign up i don't think its terrible as we get the season but we simply won't have the quality nor the fund to replace.