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Depends how ruthless they want to be do they just rip up contracts for players such as elliott and colback and loan out anyone else even if it means supplementing their wages indefinitely.

 

As I have said before the entire squad to me depending on budget is expendable, obviously noises now are its not a spent a billion building an elite squad its a slower burn which makes sense we dont have any european football/champions league yet so why spent 100 million a player to get that sort in when its not needed *yet.

 

Some of the plodders need to go but will not attract much in terms of revenue.

 

We need a striker or 2 now, left back and right back, central midfielder (who can score) and thats probably 200 million right there.

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Come on then, going off Amanda's first bid numbers, we've got £100m to spend over the first two windows. You can add what you generate to the budget.

 

Who do you buy and sell?

I thought it was 200 million including infrastructure improvements.

 

£200m is the figure they gave to the Premier League, as part of the "fit and proper test" to get their purchase of the club approved.

 

Lets put it this way . . . "they are very, very, unlikely to be planning to restrict themselves to that arbitrary figure".

 

It was just given because they needed to give a figure, it is meaningless !!!

 

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If villa go down we've got to take a closer look at Grealish. Seems our kind of player. I'd also hope we'd join the chase for Bellingham. But above all else we need a striker. I'd be happy going back for Rondon under Rafa with Joelinton playing a sub role and concentrate on other areas of the squad. Willems perm and possibly another rose loan to top it off. Need to sell all our right backs and buy one which is decent.

 

So much work to be done. You could spend £500-600m and still have room to improve.

 

Baby steps in the right direction, that's all we need for now.

 

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Come on then, going off Amanda's first bid numbers, we've got £100m to spend over the first two windows. You can add what you generate to the budget.

 

Who do you buy and sell?

I thought it was 200 million including infrastructure improvements.

 

£200m is the figure they gave to the Premier League, as part of the "fit and proper test" to get their purchase of the club approved.

 

Lets put it this way . . . "they are very, very, unlikely to be planning to restrict themselves to that arbitrary figure".

 

It was just given because they needed to give a figure, it is meaningless !!!

 

Premier league will be hoping this takeover stimulates the player market. It couldn't have come at a better time and why they won't reject it. It was approved the minute it landed on their doorstep but are going through the motions to seem like it's something worthwhile.

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Provided we stay up and this takeover goes through of course...

 

McGinn - Very good centre midfielder, strengthens an area in which we’re solely lacking

 

Fraser - Out of contract in the summer at Bournemouth, excellent player

 

Edouard - We’re clearly desperate for a goalscorer and despite playing in an inferior league, I think this guy has the quality we’re looking for

 

 

We won’t be able to drastically overhaul the team in just a couple windows, hopefully it will be a gradual evolution

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Keeper:

Not needed right now.

 

Center backs:

Not needed right now.

 

Fullbacks:

We need better fullbacks on both sides, but we have loads of fullbacks on the books already. Yedlin, Manquillo, Krafth, Willems, Rose and Dummett. Since Rose and Willems are loans, I'd focus on getting in a quality left back as first priority and stick with the current right backs for another season.

 

Central midfield:

We lack someone that can make things happen from midfield. Graelish would be perfect as a first priority target for midfield. Let Hayden, Shelvey, Longstaffs battle it out for the more holding duties in midfield for another season.

 

Wingers:

Not a priority position with ASM and Almiron here. Maybe look for an available stop gap reserve/bench player that adds more to the team than Atsu and Ritchie. Maybe it's possible to make Lazaro a permanent transfer if he impresses in training/future matches.

 

Striker: We need one. Main part of any transfer budget should go towards a new striker.

 

Overall priority for next season:

1. Striker

2. Attacking central midfielder

3. Left back

4. Back-up winger

 

Maybe in the context of the people hopefully taking over, this is a bit unambitious, but I don't expect them to go full Chelsea/Man City. I think it would potentially ruin the joy of any future success for me personally. If we manage to improve the team gradually, which in turn gradually improves the quality of football and results I am happy with that. Getting three quality players in those first three positions would also have a positive effect on the other players already here. I think that should be enough to be comfortably top half of the table, maybe competing for EURO cup next season provided we have a decent manager.

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I'd sell/release the following:

 

*All valuations are for a post-corona market/allowing for reduced transfer budgets so may look on the low side for both sale and purchases.

 

- Shelvey £8m

- Ritchie £6m

- Colback free

- Rob Elliot free

- Darlow £1m

- Gayle £8m

- Krafth £1m

- Atsu £4m

- Carroll free

 

That gives me £28m income, reduction in wages and an overall budget of £128m.

 

For me;-

 

Max Aarons - £18m

Merino - £22m (think him and Longstaff under Rafa would be immense).

Rondon - £12m (teacher for Joelinton who stays for me for the time being at least)

Martinez - £18m (Replacement for Carroll/Gayle)

N'Soki - £15m

Grealish - £40m

 

That spend brings me to £125m and I'll use the £3m leftover on potatoes to throw at anyone in the stands who sung a pro-Bruce song at any point.

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No way are we getting £8M for Gayle, all championship clubs will be near broke after this.

 

He's still a guarantee of goals and that might be a huge advantage in respect of getting to the big money of the PL. I'd imagine there'd still be some ambitious owners/gamblers prepared to take that chance imho.

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No way are we getting £8M for Gayle, all championship clubs will be near broke after this.

 

Agree due to his age and his fitness issues his stock has fallen further he is a 5m player at best, more than likely if we want his squad place I can see us being happy with a loan fee of 2 million just to get him off the books.

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