It will depend entirely on if we can get the players we want, surely?
If we can get Luke Shaw for 15-20 I think we'll spend it, if we can't entice him then we won't spend that amount..
I get the feeling we won't have a fixed budget, much like the previous window and will spend the money, whatever that amount is, if we can get the players that we really need..
How about this loan that Lewis has apparently allowed us? £50m, wasn't it? That's the word of a series of respectable posters, including Steff.
I'd say that we'll spend £40m, whether that's a net spend or not depends on our outgoings.
How about this loan that Lewis has apparently allowed us? £50m, wasn't it? That's the word of a series of respectable posters, including Steff.
I'd say that we'll spend £40m, whether that's a net spend or not depends on our outgoings.
Defoe hasn't been good but would be madness to sell him we only have one other striker (Ade obviously is not even an option)
Yeah, as Milo says, it was an advance on the Bale money so we could bring in Paulinho, Soldado and Chadli.
Which completely puts to bed any theories that Soldado was signed when people thought that Bale was staying.
Which completely puts to bed any theories that Soldado was signed when people thought that Bale was staying.
milo;478035[B said:]I think that it was pretty clear that Bale wasn't staying from mid-summer onwards[/B]. After that it was about trying to get as much money out of Real as possible
Not for me it wasn't. I held out hope that we were merely going to sell our deadwood to fund all these players that were coming in (Chadli, Capoue, Chiriches, etcetera) right until we signed Lamela for 30 million quid. That was when the penny finally dropped for me. And even then, I held out a wee hope that maybe, just maybe the deal would collapse, that Perez would overstep his mark or Bale would back down or Levy would show balls of adamantium and tell our dear best friends from Madrid to **** off back to their siestas and leave us alone. Sigh.
I meant from the club's activity. I had (misguided) hope too. When will I learn?