Have you looked at our squad without last seasons loanees? We need to bring in half a dozen just to replace those players let alone replacing players that may leave. That is going to cost money. If we spend it all on Gayle who else we going to be able to bring in? We have no right back, only 3 CH's, two strikers there's six players just to balance the squad.
from the clubs POV with Gayle, i think we may replace those players and still be financially better off and will cost us nothing.
players like Dawson, Hegazi, Gibbs, Rodriguez and Rondon will all definitely go and all fetch transfer fees.
Rondon has a £16.5m release clause which someone will pay. the other 4 combined will fetch at least £20-25m.
so does anyone think we are going to spend £40m plus on replacing those players???
we will replace them with players of the same calibre like Townsend. players doing well at league 1 & 2 and bottom end of the championship, yes who will cost money but will cost a lot less wages than those 5 players mentioned and transfer fees too.
we will have a mid table squad next year at best and will actually make money IMO.