Haha I was being sarcastic yes. The reason for that is none of us truly know how much we have to spend, so it's a ridiculous statement. I have no clue what we have to spend, but I can assure you we have plenty of cash and as I've said before, if the right player comes along, we would not hesitate to spend over 30m. One of our prime RWB targets as you know has a release clause over 30m and that's what we would have to pay. It would just mean we would have to be creative with other incomings as we were last Jan to give us plenty of scope for the summer.
There are better options out there but it will be really annoying if we use the Lucas situation (long term injury, contract not being renewed) as a reason why we can’t add to the squad.Malinovsky can play as backup for Kulu, I believe he plays there more often than not at club level, but also as a more attacking member of a midfield 3, as he generally does really well for Ukraine. In a pinch he could even be used as a false 9/CF if we had multiple injuries piling up.
He’s good on the ball, strong and will take a shot when other midfielders in our squad wouldn’t have the confidence to. He’s a quality set-piece taker and he’s got a wee bit of edge to him - something our fan base seem to like in a player - so would definitely fulfil the Conte requirement to get involved in the tougher and more defensive aspects of games.
If the fee is reasonable I think he’s absolutely worth having as a versatile squad option.
Will be another Dempsey/Siggurdson style signing for me. Completely agree.Yeah not a fan of this one personally. The guy can strike a ball, there is no doubting that. But he's not good enough IMO to be competing for a starting place in the first team. The last thing we need is more average players clogging up the squad. As AC has said, there can be no mistakes made with the budget he's on. You have to be extremely clever with 30m ?
Knowing our luck, we’ll sign Milinkovic-Savic for a club record fee and it’ll be the goalkeeping brother not the AM!If you squint at his name, it sorta looks like Milinkovic-Savic
I gave you a funny for the last sentence, knowing that some on here are already running with the "30m budget reports"!Yeah not a fan of this one personally. The guy can strike a ball, there is no doubting that. But he's not good enough IMO to be competing for a starting place in the first team. The last thing we need is more average players clogging up the squad. As AC has said, there can be no mistakes made with the budget he's on. You have to be extremely clever with 30m ?
He earns €24k / week so not really expensive. Loan with option would make sense to me. He has that creativity we are lacking so much and if conte wants him then surely we should go for him. Perfect option for Dejan.Will just be another expensive player we can't shift when the next manager comes in
He's out of contract in the summer. Pretty sure Atalanta would accept £5m at this point. I'd take him if he'd accept an 18 month deal with an option. Definitely looks to be an improvement on Gil and Lucas and would help us against bus parkers.He earns €24k / week so not really expensive. Loan with option would make sense to me. He has that creativity we are lacking so much and if conte wants him then surely we should go for him. Perfect option for Dejan.
If we’re signing players approaching 30 they need to be top players, not a bang average one with a good left footHe's approaching 30 so will not accept a short term contract, and his wages will be tripled. He's not moving to us to keep his current pay.