- Jun 20, 2012
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Wouldn’t mind us going in really hard on chiesa to be honest if we can honestly afford him. That player is an absolute delight to watch.If the ultimate sporting objective is to break back into the top four, and the club do not have the financial scope to engage in a significant net spend this summer due to recent debt and lost stadium income, there are two seldom discussed factors that weigh in favor of selling Kane this summer if City offer 150 million pounds:
#1: If Kane leaves, the club will have freed up an absolutely enormous sum of money from the wage bill from his departure, as well as the departures of Bale, Alderweireld, Mourinho, Rose and Vinicius. That's potentially 800K a week in wage bill reduction from just those aforementioned names. If you add in players who are strongly linked with moves away (Sissoko, Winks, Sanchez, Aurier), there will be well over 1 million pounds a week less on the wage bill under the above scenario. Now, the club will have presumably signed Gil, Romero, Tomiyasu and Gollini, but those aren't players who were on enormous wages. Gil, for example, according to media reports, was purportedly offered a little more than 40K a week. Tomiyasu and Gollini likely wouldn't be on wages much greater than that, and Romero, while almost undoubtedly on a higher salary, probably would be somewhere in the 80K-100K bracket based on similarly situated past signings. Even if you take into Son's reported wage increase from 140K a week to 200K a week, Nuno's wages, plus the additions of Skipp and Sessegnon, the net impact to the wage bill in the above scenario would see the club potentially have saved north of 600K a week versus last season. That provides enormous scope for the club to maneuver in the transfer market to improve the squad (admittedly, this is all hypothetical and a bit speculative given the lack of definitive reports on salaries, but very much worth gaming out).
#2: Paratici's negotiating experience and contacts are seemingly among the best in world football. With 150 million pounds to spend and enormous flexibility in regards to the wage bill, there are a lot of possibilities, especially in Italy, for rebuilding the team. For example, both Dybala and Insigne have one year left on their contracts. Would 250K a week entice them to consider a move to Spurs? Lautaro Martinez and Koulibaly both have two years left on their deals and have been heavily linked with moves. Would major wage increases tempt either or both to consider a move to Spurs? If you don't want to go the route of more established players, Paratici could potentially sign a whole host of players with upside in Vlahovic, Damsgaard, Aouar, Milenkovic, Locatelli and Berardi.
Perhaps a third route the club could go would involve keeping Kane and not being able to add more than one player potentially beyond Romero and Tomiyasu due to transfer fee limitations, but because of substantial wage bill savings, the club could opt to make a move for one or two big money loan deals (say Coutinho and/or Pjanic).
Still, if Kane is sold for the mooted 150 million pound fee, the squad should still be in a position to do well this season and in the seasons to come.