Saliba has now been confirmed and he will be loaned back for the season.
Saliba has now been confirmed and he will be loaned back for the season.
He wants to give youth a chance and yet he wants to send ESM and Nelson, probably our two most adavanced young players (other than Nketiah) back on loan, doesn't make much sense to me.Originally Posted by dostoy
One for next season, could turn out to be a shrewd buy, problem is he can't feature for a year and we really need players now.
One for 2024.
Me neither, both should be getting fairly regilar first team action with us IMO, if you're good enough you're old enough...
I don't see the logic in spending £27m on Saliba, an unproven 18 year old who we have to loan back for a year too.
If we're short on cash surely we should be spending on players who can play for us now?
It's easier to think about this as we've made a signing with next year's budget this year. We have paid a small fee now to get our business done early. Other than that, he doesn't impact this year's meagre budget.
Yes, we should be spending this year's budget on players we can use now. And I would presume we will still use that budget (at some point). Saliba doesn't impact that.
Yes it is, trouble is, that's a large chunk of next summers' budget now accounted for, so if we didn't quaify for the CL then we'd have next to nothing.
As for this years' budget, who knows, so far we've brought in Ceballos on loan and done Real a favour by taking him off their wage bill but some reports vary on wether we paid anything, some say 4 million some say as much as 15 million.
Martinelli for a reported 6-8 million (seems quite a lot considering he was really under the radar, but if he turns out decent it will be a bargain) and whatever we've spent on Saliba which is probably something like 6-7 million.
If our budget is 40-45 million as has been reported, then that probably will leave maybe half or just over half, but we need a winger, a CB and and left back and right back so not sure what we'll end up with to be honest.
Our need was now given the players we have and the last few seasons, we basically need the CL money to move forward as Kroenke won't put any money in, so it's a big gamble we're taking, if we fail to qualify it's only going to get harder and what's more Auba and Lacazette haven't been given new contracts and will have a year left next summer which if we're to re-sign them will cost a lot and really eat into any money we have (on top of whatever we owe for Saliba).
If Emery had shown some real progress and direction last season, we might feel more confident, but given what happened last summer, I'm not sure.
Last edited by Özim; 26-07-2019 at 01:25 PM.
Apparently Ceballos is costing us £15 million for the season, real only bought him for 18 million, ripoff, Real saw us coming, this guy isn't even rated by Zidane, we could have bought Fekir outright for 2.5 million more!
Last edited by Özim; 26-07-2019 at 02:03 PM.
What happened with Everton Soares? I thought that deal was happening... turns out that was a smokescreen to sign Ceballos on loan
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
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