There will likely be Elliot’s fee and Tsimikas’s fee too. Which probably drives the net spend to the affordable range. If say Elliot gets 40 to 50m and Tsimikas gets 20m.
That will be good business and give us room to sign Isak and Guehi.
Not that netspend is everything but keeping Trent, diaz would have meant they would get a bigger wages.
I think if Elliott and Tsimikas are to follow after Darwin leaves, our net will be down to about 40mp.
We’ll still need a forward and a defender though and if that were to be Isak and Guehi, our net will be back above 200mp.
7 players in,all capable of being in the starting 11, and a lot of money spent but not bad for an revamp of that size.
The point is that we have enough to fully go for the jugular in this window alone.
If it means Guehi + Isak + any other position. We probably have the bandwidth to do that. We can spend 200m more in this window comfortably. More if a suitable option presents itself.
We are down to Gakpo, Salah, Chiesa and Ekitike for the forward positions. Ngumoha could get the sort of minutes Chiesa got last season and we have some players that could play the wide forward positions in an emergency but if Chiesa isn’t trusted to start more and with the African Cup of Nations, we could really do with another versatile forward that can play multiple positions even if we get Isak.
Liverpool are also looking for defensive reinforcements but believe Inter Milan are ahead of them in the chase of 18-year-old centre-back Giovanni Leoni of Parma. He was managed by Cristian Chivu last season with Chivu having since moved to Inter. The Serie A side would be able to offer him more playing time.
Interest in Marc Guehi will also be determined by Crystal Palace’s asking price for a player who is out of contract next summer.
Barcola links to us is just a smoke screen as the club knows that it will be nigh on impossible to wrestle him from PSG. My guess is that they will go for Rodrygo and when things die down we might add Isak. We need 6 forwards as we have sold 3 of them and one of them god bless his soul has departed.
I don’t see how we can bring in just one. Simple maths would suggest it needs to be the case.
Out: Nunez, Diaz, surely Chiesa and the loss of Jota.
In: Ekitike, likely Isak.
Four departures and two arrivals would be mad even with the emergence of Rio. He needs to be option number six in the attacking group and get all of Chiesa’s minutes, league cup games and help plug the hole when Salah leaves. He can’t be your first and only attacking option off the bench in January with Mo gone and Isak gets a knock.