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Next seasons squad

Raziel said:
What justification would there be to spend less? (forget the Levy conversation as it taints everyone's perspective). Surely you (and the others) haven't suddenly decided our squad is good enough? Owners need to save money (is that ok now?)

Even if you take view of Robertson & Senesi being effectively free, we swap Romero for Savinho, so you start at net zero
- We need a top level GK, Deep lying CM, replacement for Palhihna/Bissouma, CF (maybe 2), #10 (can't rely only on Maddison), maybe RW

That's 6 incoming players that will average 60M+ a player (GK slightly less, CF's a lot more), even if you make some deals, say one experience player (cheaper but higher wages), maybe one covered by sales, there is no math where a real "reset" (CEO and owners verbiage, not mine) works out cheaper.

Now, would we need to do that every window? maybe not, but probably as our competition spends like that. But there cannot be a doubt that a team that finished 17th two seasons in a row, with glaring weaknesses up top, needs spend and spend now.
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The fact that we can’t afford to. We have the biggest debt in football and every year our cash position is reducing as our debt position is climbing.

If we increase our wage to revenue ratio (as I expect us to do) then we can probably sustain around £80-£100m of net transfer spending a season, more if we’re in the CL.

Unlike you I’d rather have a good football set up spending a bit less money but spending it well than a poor football set up spending more money badly.
 
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