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So I was thinking more along the lines of having a big spend this coming Summer, and then the squad would be more in a position of adding just a few players each year on a relatively reasonable spend.I admire your optimism, looking for the positive in a shitty situation and I am glad that our team will be finally better than the team when Poch left after 3 years and 6 transfer windows but I am not sure reasonable investment will be enough when it’s looking more and more likely that we will have to replace the three players that have kept us in the races during the last few years.
I don’t think we can replace the roughly 40 goals a season from Kane and Son. We may be able to cope with losing one of them but not both.
Danjuma and richarlison may be good players but they won’t get near those numbers, and can you see Levy actually splashing the kind of money required to get us a forward that’s going to guaranteed 20 goals a season? Let alone 2.
For example, if this January was 12 months down the line with a more healthy squad already in place, I think it would look a lot more positive. Even though the Porro deal took an age, it's still the kind of quality to add to an established squad. Looking at maybe £150m spent each year as a spitball figure. But in the context of our current squad it doesn't feel like enough.
I think everything comes in context. Danjuma is either going to be good or bad. If he's bad he gets let go, if he's good there is potential to use GLC to help offset his transfer fee. Replacing Kane and Son seems impossible, although replacing Carrick, Berbatov, Modric and Bale all seemed impossible but we managed.
Perhaps Son leaves but Conte stays, we buy Lautaro and go 3-5-2. Perhaps Kane leaves, Poch returns and we go 4-2-3-1 with Kulu behind Richarlison with Son and Player X in the wide positions. Perhaps Kane, Son and Conte all leave, we get a manager appointment right for once and have something totally different. There are tonnes of possibilities, so I don't think it's worth projecting too miserable a future based on things we aren't sure of yet.
Kane, Son and Lloris are going to retire eventually, regardless of our owners. We will have to deal with it eventually, regardless of our owners. A player like Kane is one of those who you don't/can't replace like-for-like anyway, so when he leaves the manager at the time will need to come up with something new.
One way or another, we need to be in the mindset of spending properly (transfer fees and wages) and that needs to come from the top. I've personally been OK with the idea of building our revenues before spending hard on the team, but now the revenues are here I'm not mega confident in how they are being spent. That simply has to change in my opinion.