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I'll be interested to see how this plays out if we get injuries to the likes of Kane, Eriksen etc. I agree about not buying mediocre players for the sake of it but christ, there must surely be a realisation at the club that in this day and age you have to spend big sometimes in order to move forward. This is especially important if you can offer CL football!
This whole experience brings back memories of the Sugar era where he refused to sanction £6 million for Sir Les in 1996 (who went to Newcastle to score goals galore) only to spend that much on him when he was all but done! That era saw us fall behind the rest, this is different as we will probably still be in the top 6 (I hope)
Time will tell I agree, what a way to gamble though?!
Who do we buy to replace Kane or Eriksen? That we can realistically afford and will be happy sitting on the bench for most games of the season?
Martial maybe? £80m (- Toby) and we'd have probably lost Toby in the bargain so have to buy De Ligt for what £50+m
Bale would've made the difference £100+m + wages but Ronaldo leaving fucked that up, even if it could have happened (it almost definitely wouldn't/couldn't).
We've done the gambling thing on Janssen and the experienced proven Prem goal scorer on Llorente (both still at the club btw). Who is realistic?
Grealish would have been a good signing imo, but £30m for a bench warmer and Championship player was too much, maybe, we'll see. The division in the Grealish thread shows how much and how many doubted the signing, could he have stepped into Eriksen's shoes if he was injured? Maybe but a bit optimistic really.
The biggest things this summer are the stadium, Poch & Harry contracts, Lloris winning the WC and most of our first team having good a good WC, then signings in that order imo.
I don't know if Levy not signing someone for Pochettino is going to cause a rift but from Mauricio's words and body language he doesn't seem pissed off to me but I may be wrong.....