I thought Toby's contract was a bad idea. On Serge and Ben I would recruit on top of and try to move both if the option came up and better players were available.
So we can't do it because of money...because big money will be needed to pay for big time players? Am I right? Fundamental disconnect here. You are still on the "players I've heard of = good = big money" trip. There are other players. 90% of the players in your list you didn't know about last year so perhaps we should focus on players you haven't heard of a year before you would have heard of them. Money saved!
I have no idea of what our budget is and neither does anyone else. I saw Spursidol say a couple of pages ago IIRC from his viewing of financials there might be 100M this summer. I think I have that right but if I don't please forgive. With the outs added to that we could get 5 very nice players but very few that you or many others have heard about.
Yeah, and getting rid of players that are not good enough to be taking a foreign spot should be in your thinking too. And that is why Ben, Dier, Serge and a few others should be looked at with more scrutiny beyond are they 'fine'.
So minimal beyond the whispers of the forum or the a CL game taken in here or there? You could have just said that.
What's a 'top player'? Please define it for me since you keep going back to the well. yes, all those players you've mentioned will cost money because their profiles are high enough that you've heard about them. That doesn't mean that lower profile ie players yet to make their presence known aren't out there for significantly less money. Would you have know about Mukiele had we not played RBL? See? And he was 16M during the Sammy-summer. Everybody is a nobody until they become a somebody. We need proper structure and scouting to pick out the nobodies since we can't financially compete for the somebodies. But Mou may not like that.
. It's all based on the end product.
