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We’ve got to do a lot more than that overall. Beating them helps along with Brighton are key but our fixtures are tricky. Wins are key as staying unbeaten with a number of draws and could see Liverpool sneaking in with their fixtures. What an end of the season it’s going to be at both ends of the table ?

Only downside is he will probably miss their game against Spurs ?

Rashford out for a few games.

Spurs is the bigger game so I doubt he’ll risk Maxi in this one if there is any doubt about his fitness.

Wage structure of a 25 man squad in a nutshell. Teams you mention have a much higher sliding scale. Our top earners at £125kpw are on less than some of their squad players.

Hoping so too. Was very impressed with performance against us and whenever I’ve seen him. Think he’d be perfect for the squad and wage structure and slowly replace Wilson.

Thanks. Yeah they mentioned that also previously. Hopefully some firm news soon ??

They reported them details months ago. Any firm dates given or no more new info?

Just came in to post that as was on my timeline too. Technology so clever.

Goals change games.

It was £65-75m in fee alone in January. What’s happened to him? What wages would he want?

You asked how much how much Billing would cost and I gave you an answer. I’ve asked you twice how much you think MS would cost overall. You’ve not given an answer when asked twice. Third time lucky perhaps ?

Lost your calculator @joeyt ?

The fee wasn’t even £63m right? Was that not the total with all add ons?

Answer my question. I answered yours.

Supply & demand & current contract value. I would think if they bought him for £15m a couple of seasons ago they’d be looking around £25m bearing in mind he’s on apparently £15-40kpw and it’s unclear if he’d of possibly only had 18month on his contract not to mention not many on here seem to rate him ? Bournemouth financial situation isn’t great and competition at that time for a midfield squad player happy to rotate and sit on bench would’ve been fairly low for those with more pull than us or could afford £25m. Let’s do the sums £25m. Offer £50kpw x 5 years. Total package £38m. If you offload Hendrick maybe go higher to £60kpw and still not much more than £40m. How much for the Lazio guy broken down? @joeyt

I think we had a relatively modest budget for that window and we decided to take advantage of Everton’s financial plight and pay up front for AG a window earlier than planned to get him for £40m+ instead of the previously quoted £60m+. So with that deal bubbling along in the window they spent what’s left on another “opportunity” due to the contract standoff between WHU and HA. I think if we’d beat Sheff Wed I’d like to think we’d of attempted to get a third player in and that player a midfielder. To answer your question the thread is what forum posters would think is a smarter signing. Didn’t realise the criteria had to include the player being actually linked?

No I said there wasn’t a massive difference between them (after briefly checking the highlights out of the Lazio player which I made clear that’s all I had done as hadn’t seen him play knowingly) to justify the large differing factors in signing one over the other. One the manager already knew. One would fit comfortably in our wage structure. One we could tempt without ECL. One would had EPL experience. One would judging by the likely transfer fee and wage deal would be £60-70m over a 5 year cheaper giving us more FFP wriggle room. The clue is in the thread title. Realistic. Where we were at that time in the window Billing was realistic. It’s so easy just to pluck names out but when you do at least give it some thought to transfer fees/FFP. Wage demands/our wage structure. Character background/Top of EH’s requirements. Billing would’ve been a very smart signing at the time when we ran out of midfield legs like I predicted we would due to lack of ability to rotate leading to injuries and also impending suspensions if you are the same players over and over again having to make the riskier tackles. He’d be ideal for these final two months to rotate with SL/JW/Joe along with the month we looked flat pre cup final.

Yep. I got shot down by the hipsters ?

Win or don’t lose the key games (Villa/Spurs/Brighton) still priority. Think we will do well in all our home games as the crowd will be a factor. All our away games are very tricky. If we beat Spurs that could be another massive last momentum shift.

Certainly softened the blow of his £1m pay off along with £8m for Bruce.

I’d like to see him get a run against Villa. Was thinking today but Burns height could be needed today for the most part.

Every team usually gets humped once a season. We’ve yet to but always possible. Have a bad feeling for Villa/Chelsea away. On the other hand this is the best back five I’ve known us have.

Might suite us as the home support for these slots less of a factor quite often. Wished Spurs at home was a midweek or late weekend KO.