January Transfer Window

[Trowel]

Where have all our body language experts gone when you need them.

[Cozzie]

[blueToffee]

I'll be honest, when they said "go big", I expected more than 70 mil as the number. That might buy you two players of any proven quality these days.

[Big Nevs Vaz]

70 million. That’s a bit Doctor Evil from Austin Powers….Go big or go home.

[brap2]

£150m+ please

[PoD1878]

£70m isn’t going to do much is it

Especially when at the moment we have 6* contracts running out at the end of the season.

Keane
Coleman
Gana
Grealish - loan end
Mykolenko
*Röhl - but we have to buy him anyway (is that money accounted for already?)

[AjaxAndy]

£70m isn’t going to do much is it

Especially when at the moment we have 6* contracts running out at the end of the season.

Keane
Coleman
Gana
Grealish - loan end
Mykolenko
*Röhl - but we have to buy him anyway (is that money accounted for already?)

If that's purely transfer fees it's pretty decent because we won't be paying outright for players.

£25m player paid over the length of a 5 year contract = £5m, so we'd be able to sign 14 players if they all cost that amount.

Just depends on what that £70m includes and if it's even correct. Plus any sales we make will add to the wiggle room substantially.

[Goaljira]

We cant spend £100m+ every year else we'll just end up in PSR hell again.

[777Kidnappings]

If that's purely transfer fees it's pretty decent because we won't be paying outright for players.

£25m player paid over the length of a 5 year contract = £5m, so we'd be able to sign 14 players if they all cost that amount.

Just depends on what that £70m includes and if it's even correct. Plus any sales we make will add to the wiggle room substantially.

That's 350m over 5 years. We are not spending 350m

[AjaxAndy]

That's 350m over 5 years. We are not spending 350m

Yep totally get that, but my point was mainly a £70m budget isn't small, because we don't pay transfer fees in full at the point of purchase.

I'm in no way advocating we spent £350m over 5 years nor that we should sign 14 players.

[TheRam]

Why wouldn’t we spend £350m over five years?

Fully expecting us to spend that over five years, if not more.

[brap2]

If we don't we aren't going anywhere fast.

Villa spent about 600m to get where they are. Forest the same. Newcastle more.

If we've got three windows to spend I went £100m+ in each or we are simply not serious.