When you go that deep it stops working though because to actually get a meaningful comparison you cant say "30 million for Perez" anymore because we wont have recieved 30 million for him this summer.
Ashley and Bruce have played a blinder. They knew all they had to do was get Lascelles, Shelvey and Ritchie onside and the squad would just take it and move on, and only the one's really close to Rafa would want to go.
That post about bleeding locals dry, nah not for me. I might not like the Chronicle but imagine trying to say your looking to make people redundant and being proud of it. Tory as fuck.
He's clearly more comfortable at wing back. A back 5/3 just seems to give all of our defenders that bit more freedom and suits them better. Schar, Manquillo and Lejeune especially.