From another thread but i think we will conduct business like so in the summer -
INS - A goalkeeper, a defensive midfielder, 2 right backs, 1 good young left back, 1 centre back, 1 winger, 1 striker, 1 central midfielder.
For these id hope we look at-
GK - Carson, Foster, Cudicini
Right Back - Bardsley (impressed so far), Young,
Left Back - Hoyte, Baines, Bale!?
Centre Back - Distin, Davies
Defensive & Centre Mid - Barton, Reo-Coker, Muntari, Appiah, Parker
Winger - SWP, Milner
Striker - Bent, Keane, Defoe
Id also think that presuming we get the targets we want the following players will be sold/released/ out of contract and leave the club-
Taylor, Delaney, Hughes, Samuel, DJDJ, Hendrie, Berger, Sutton and unfortunately i think Angel & Laursen might join that group.
Out on loan - Osbourne, Gardner, Olejnik, Williams
So ideally id say transfers would resemble this -
OUT -
Taylor 1mil
Delaney released
Hughes 500k-1mil
Samuel released
DJDJ released
Hendrie released
Berger released
Sutton released
IN -
Carson 3-5mil
Bardsley 2-4mil
Hoyte 2-4mil
Baines 6-8mil
CB 4-6mil
Barton 5.5
SWP 7-10mil
Bent 10-12mil
Considering A.) Randy knew when buying Villa that the squad needed serious money invested into it and B.) Each club is going to get 45mil as part of the new sky deal i believe ( correct me if im wrong here ) Then i think we could see us spend this amount of money on these or similar profile players