- Jan 26, 2005
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Conte by his own admission has said he has specifically only demanded one player (Lukaku) in his career. No doubting he has asked for certain players in the past. However the parameters have probably already been set. It is clear that the focus is bringing in younger players which I presume Conte has agreed to.
So I don't think it's a poch style this player or nothing. It will be this position and paratici will present options.
We will be working to a preset budget (maybe Jan and summer). Also with the amount of players out of contract and clubs still not in the greatest condition abroad, I don't think fees will be a massive issue.
Salary could be a sticking point, but I don't think we should be too worried. As long as paratici and Conte are on the same page and levy doesn't hold back, we should be ok.
Seeing Contes work so far and levy knowing being tight at this stage could lose us not only Conte but paratici as well it would be suicidal to be difficult at this stage.
So fully backing would only be signing players for positions that Conte demands, that are better than our current squad players which is not too difficult. (Except up top).
My guess would be an outlay of around 100m with close to half of that recuperated in sales for January. (Optimistic maybe)
What we get for our money will be down to paratici and Conte.
So I don't think it's a poch style this player or nothing. It will be this position and paratici will present options.
We will be working to a preset budget (maybe Jan and summer). Also with the amount of players out of contract and clubs still not in the greatest condition abroad, I don't think fees will be a massive issue.
Salary could be a sticking point, but I don't think we should be too worried. As long as paratici and Conte are on the same page and levy doesn't hold back, we should be ok.
Seeing Contes work so far and levy knowing being tight at this stage could lose us not only Conte but paratici as well it would be suicidal to be difficult at this stage.
So fully backing would only be signing players for positions that Conte demands, that are better than our current squad players which is not too difficult. (Except up top).
My guess would be an outlay of around 100m with close to half of that recuperated in sales for January. (Optimistic maybe)
What we get for our money will be down to paratici and Conte.