When it's later released that Ange wanted someone else but went with Johnson because we could off load two unwanted players we'll have all the facts. We'll then find out he really wanted another player that went on to explode like a Kim min jae or Kvratsh(sp)And if he is right it will be a great spot by Ange and Paratici, if he's crap it will be Levy meddling and screwing up our recruitment
All very true good points the only thing would be what if we simply can’t get those players you mentioned regardless of money… Vhalovic and Silva not interested in coming to us whilst we aren’t in Europe or their clubs just won’t sell unless it’s a ludicrous figure way over their valuation that would just be us wasting money. Yes we got £100mil from Kane but in this market that doesn’t go that far and also as we know from Ndombele and Pepe’s etc, spending big doesn’t always = spending well.
You mean kulu?
Why does it matter whether we spent the money before or after the sale? Did Juventus suddenly recover from its financial crisis the moment Bayern put pen to paper? Clubs throughout Europe are skint due to the pandemic and there are plenty of quality players available if you're willing to pay.
It could be the best crop of incomings, potentially, but I don’t see how you can sell Kane and call it the “best window we’ve ever had”. We’d have upgraded two starting XI positions (Maddison, VDV) and massively downgraded one.
Yep thinking the same mate. Especially in this style of play he will be very effective.
A different kind of player but yeah Kulu can do that too. Probably has a bit more potential to put up better numbers though. I’m just giving a bit of a possible angle that Ange could be looking at it from
Probably and hopefully. Although back then we had Son and even more Kane providing with the goals.
You’ve missed off Vicario & Solomon. One being a great young GK another being a very valuable versatile squad option in a position we needed.
While that might sound like a decent deal for them in terms of the transfer fee, would they be able to afford to replace Johnson's £30k p.w. wages with Sanchez & Spence's combined £90k p.w. wages?
That’s not always the case, Tucker. I once asked Ben the time and it only took 7 hours, 13 minutes for him to be right.
You said that we spent the Bale money and yet we have spent more than we sold Kane for overall too. I simply stated the fact it was spent first on both occasions. I've said all along it doesn't matter what the Kane money is and what the rest of the budget is. It only matters what the overall budget is and how it was spent. We have to judge the overall window. In all honesty we don't know how it will work out but then no signings are certain to be good anyway. It seems very clear we have Vicario, VdV and Maddison as starters now. That's not bad by any means. You also have to consider that there's a lot more to it than this window alone. We have Udogie as a starter now too. We have young players from past windows like Sarr who is only getting better with age. Honestly things are not as bad as you're making out. I'm not saying a top player wouldn't be great by any means. I just think the shape of the overall squad is coming together well. I would be happy to get a couple more young prospects like Johnson to finish it off. Each to their own but we're in much better shape than the squad Poch started with and that developed into our best team in this league. We have another young squad now and the more potential we get the better. Only so many will come good.
