Yeah, I can concur with this. I'm not that optimistic that the board can pull this anymore once rumours about Drinkwater are popping up.They wanted matic we sold matic to Utd that tells me that no deal was reached so this was a fuxk off to them, if they were going to give us Sandro we would hold on to matic as a bargaining chip not sell a player they are intrested in while we are courting Sandro, deal is dead.
Have we even made a bid though? All this talk in the papers for weeks and weeks, but nothing about an actual bid. It's like Lukaku, we were linked for ages, but the only time we were ever actually reported to have made a bid, was at the last minute.I think we will get him, can't see Juventus turning down a £70m bid.
If we add in Diego at 40 and assume we actually want to progress not just break even spending another 100 million shouldn't really be a problemTransfers in:
Morata (Add ons included) = £70m
Bakayoko = £40m
Rudiger = £34m
Willy = Free
Spent = £144m
Transfers out:
Ake = £20m
Matic = £40m
Chalobah = £5m
Cuadrado = £15m
Traore = £9m
Oscar = £60m
Received = £149m
Problem is 100m is only going to get us 2 players at most if we want to land Sandro as one of those players. Only leaves 30-40m left which in this day and age will probably get you a Danny Drinkwater.If we add in Diego at 40 and assume we actually want to progress not just break even spending another 100 million shouldn't really be a problem
I think what happens a lot nowadays is there tends to be a lot of 'backdoor' negotiation through the players/clubs intermediaries such as agents and other representatives. No official bid would have been made but I imagine there would have been a lot of talking to get a feel for the general interest of the player and a rough estimate of what price the player would be available at.Have we even made a bid though? All this talk in the papers for weeks and weeks, but nothing about an actual bid. It's like Lukaku, we were linked for ages, but the only time we were ever actually reported to have made a bid, was at the last minute.
You forgot about Costa. Throw in the Oscar money and we can afford 2 top quality players and a couple of decent backup players with change to spare.Problem is 100m is only going to get us 2 players at most if we want to land Sandro as one of those players. Only leaves 30-40m left which in this day and age will probably get you a Danny Drinkwater.