Doesn't seem like we're short of money given the bids that have been reported on from various quasi-reliable sources though. We've got,what, 25m in bids out there at the moment?
Say Gueye is a direct replacement for Delph for a similar fee, and in terms of quality should be similar... the actual transfer fees combined out there are up to say highest, 20 million? In the past few windows we've spent between 10-20 million. Rather than the Lambert approach of 7 players for 20 million say, Sherwood might be going for the 2 quality players in the same budget. Can you really see Lerner splashing money? I'd like to think we have more money because of the TV money etc, but I just don't see us spending a load to improve... I can't see us improving if we can't retain our best players.
Except for the three £8m-£10m offers we have put in for players.
Spot on.
We are dooooooomed.
Read the above. Maybe writing "we are screwed" was over the top... but this time of year we get false optimism... come Feb, March, its a bit more like reality as it has been for the past few seasons. Others are improving and retaining.