European clubs don't have a pot to piss in.Yes lol it was the last year of his contract. Romero on the other hand was not available, that's why we quoted Madrid 150m. Sure you could say they could just pay the 150m, but clubs don't work like that.
We really should have been using the last few windows to hoover up the best talent in Serie A and La Liga (outside of Real and Barca).
40m goes a very long way over there.
I don't see how anyone could argue that we have taken advantage of the very strong financial position we're in relative to our rivals and top European clubs.
We've got the likes of Chelsea and Villa having to do all sorts of accounting tricks to cook the books, it's the perfect time to kick them while they are down and push ourselves clear with a couple of elite signings.
Instead we sit here with basically 0 net spend and two 18 year old midfielders added to the squad with 3.5 weeks until the window SLAMS SHUT.