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Voting closed: March 20, 2017, 12:11:41 PM
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However much it is, I would rather it wasn't Pulls spending it. We had a purple patch in the mid season but his limitations are clear to see again now.His work here is done, let him go and pick up another lame duck and let us gamble on someone with genuine ambition.This league is so open these days we should be looking at exploiting that and not settling for tedious mediocrity.He's done a great job, fair play to him, but he has nothing more to offer.
I think we'll spend more than last summer. I think around 50m. Although we must have spent about that last year. Would be nice to see a quality striker and defender brought in. Think we're ok in mf.
I would stick with my estimate of a couple weeks ago of a total budget of for fees of about £50m assuming no major sales and that isn't going to change regardless of what we think of the inadequacies of the current squad. The bigger cause for concern is that any improvement in the squad will be more than swallowed by the aging process of those currently in the squad and high wastage rate that seems to dog forwards and creative players in Pulis teams.
Hey Paulo let's reduce your 20:5 million by selling Gardner Poco & the diver,say 5 million?Leaves a 15 mil spend.I think we will have two major signings c45 mil for am & CB plus say 5 million for lb.Plus a surprise signing of 25 million for a euro striker.Total around 75 mil,which we can afford and then I think we can be challenging Everton.Obviously,we will bring through say three of our youngsters into the squad.Happy days.
I am loathed to point out that the £2m per place of premier league prize money makes very little actual difference to next season's player budget. Our worst possible finish is 10th some of the money is earmarked for player bonuses in any event so it isn't making much of a difference to the bottom line. The £2m we got from Blues for Gardner is profit given that he came on a free and as such is as least as significant as any slight variation in our league finish. We will not spend £75m without a major player sale or sales and in that case we are spending money to replace key players from the existing squad so while it would be an eye catching number the truth is it might not have bought much of an improvement. The money is there for between £40m to £50m worth of fees depending on what we need to do on wages.
Morning everyone,I would just like to say that I don't think that us spending say around 75 million is beyond us,our new owner I think will make a contribution,he will know now that we can challenge for the Europa league and that we need better quality players to do so.He should have confidence in pulis and the chairman etc all and he will want some success.With more money coming into the club he will promote us in China and I expect more sponsorship will be forthcoming.After all villa spent over 80 million last year alone.so why can't we?
Given that we don't appear to want to go over £3.5m for Taylor it suggests our budget is still going to very tight, anyone thinking we will spend big are likely to be very disappointed come the end of the summer window.
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