Quote Originally Posted by Nufcian View Post
I can’t see us signing more than 3 players for a fee.

If Kelly comes in on a free then great, but we’re probably going to be limited by how much extra we are making out of this and into next season to pay form someone’s wages.

Say a player costs 40m and is on 100k/month… that’s (rough maths) 13 million commitment for 5 years.

We know we have Sela and Adidas uplift
We know there will be a few fringe players gone
There’s speculation over Miggy and Wilson (met him yesterday at Whitehouse farm and got a pic of him with my eldest - really nice bloke)… not sure about either… and of the two I would rather keep Wilson and manage his fitness… he does his job consistently when fit, Miggy is back to the usual goals and assists…. But not convinced he’ll leave.

So given we know we have increased wages with Bruno and Big Joe, and Miggy got a new contract and Tonali is on the books even if not playing… so I don’t know how much uplift other than main sponsors we might have to spend

My assumption is we will have approx 50m to pay for increases in transfer fee’s and wages, it’s very conservative, but I think 3 players who are good enough to play in a team battling for a European spot is a good improvement.

Positions I would prioritise…

CB / RW / young striker to learn from Isak and Wilson
I think we will see a bigger spend than that just purely based on the fact its the start of the new financial term, I do think the PSR or FFP will be scrapped soon enough and some cashflow will come in..

I'd be disappointed if we didn't add some serious depth but know that there will be a few outgoings too.. be glad to get some of those out of contract players gone too who are on silly wages for their standard..