wow... no surprise to see certain members having certain (and argumentative) opinions...
some things never change...
personally, bringing in, and i quote, "four top quality" players or using "significant" or "substantial" funds, has not happened...
dol has already said about phillips and berger that he wanted them years ago and they are at the wrong end of their careers, or something along those lines, so i think we can discount those as the "top quality" players he was looking at, so this hasnt happened...
our net spend and equally the individual prices for the players we have brought in, is not "significant" or "substantial", so they can be discounted for those too...
so as things stand, we have not spent "significant" or "substantial" funds nor have we brought in "four top quality" players...
even if we bring in baros for 6 mil and a defender for 2 mil, (which is the reported unsubstantiated fees flying around), thats still only 8 million spent net...
a meagre sum in total for a premier league football club, bearing in mind our boards expectations and the amount of players we have let go within the past few years... thats IF it actually happens...
it would also not be the "four top quality" players we were promised...
IF it happens....
but we could also look at the promised beattie money..
we initially had 4 mil of that left, so if we assume that this actually existed and we have spent a grand total of £250k so far, then we are currently have just under 4 mil of that left...
so even if 8 mil is spent, half of that would be last years 'alleged' beattie money, so our summer spend THIS year would only be 4 million...
about our normal net spend....
and this is 'IF' we pick up baros and a 2 million pound defender...