I wonder if Tottenham fans spend as much time fantazing about selling Kane to Madrid in the summer.
I would imagine that it will be between £20-30 million which won't buy us a new team.
Quote from: Brassneck on January 22, 2019, 08:44:15 AMI would imagine that it will be between £20-30 million which won't buy us a new team.You say that, but it's not impossible if we are more clever than we have been in the last decade with purchases. Our best buy for years has been McGinn and we paid what - £3m for him? - instead of the millions we spunked on Hogan, McCormack etc. They're out there if we can be bothered to look.
Quote from: Ads on January 22, 2019, 08:34:47 AMI wonder if Tottenham fans spend as much time fantazing about selling Kane to Madrid in the summer.The scenarios are completely different though.We need a new team and we've got no money.Personally, I am hoping against hope that we can keep Jack/nobody triggers his release clause. My worry is that I doubt Jack would have signed if the release clause was as high as £40 million. I would imagine that it will be between £20-30 million which won't buy us a new team.In an ideal world, we keep Jack but being positive, selling him will go some way to helping rebuild the team which is an absolute must.
Quote from: Brassneck on January 22, 2019, 08:44:15 AMQuote from: Ads on January 22, 2019, 08:34:47 AMI wonder if Tottenham fans spend as much time fantazing about selling Kane to Madrid in the summer.The scenarios are completely different though.We need a new team and we've got no money.Personally, I am hoping against hope that we can keep Jack/nobody triggers his release clause. My worry is that I doubt Jack would have signed if the release clause was as high as £40 million. I would imagine that it will be between £20-30 million which won't buy us a new team.In an ideal world, we keep Jack but being positive, selling him will go some way to helping rebuild the team which is an absolute must.We've got no money?
With the best will in the world it's gonna the best part of 50m and 3/4 seasons to totally rebuild our squad for the premiership with players who look like they could survive a season in the premier - i'm basing that on being able to spend 10-15m each season, paying an average of 3m for each player and the fact only Mcginn chester and Grealish could possibly thrive in the premier currently. So that's 7/8 first team players to replace and those in the 1st team or reserves currently who aren't good enough to be reserves, so probably another 8 players. A massive job. Even if you go the Bruce route and just worry about a promotion side, I'd say we currently need to replace 4 first team players if Grealish was fit (and that's relying on Kalinic and Hause working out). And then you look at our reserves and whether they can cover for injuries. i'd say another 7 1st team positions haven't got adequate cover where a reserve is good enough to cover mid/long term injury. So overall that's another 30m and 2/3 seasons. No wonder Bruce went the loan route.
Quote from: sickbeggar on January 22, 2019, 10:50:26 AMWith the best will in the world it's gonna the best part of 50m and 3/4 seasons to totally rebuild our squad for the premiership with players who look like they could survive a season in the premier - i'm basing that on being able to spend 10-15m each season, paying an average of 3m for each player and the fact only Mcginn chester and Grealish could possibly thrive in the premier currently. So that's 7/8 first team players to replace and those in the 1st team or reserves currently who aren't good enough to be reserves, so probably another 8 players. A massive job. Even if you go the Bruce route and just worry about a promotion side, I'd say we currently need to replace 4 first team players if Grealish was fit (and that's relying on Kalinic and Hause working out). And then you look at our reserves and whether they can cover for injuries. i'd say another 7 1st team positions haven't got adequate cover where a reserve is good enough to cover mid/long term injury. So overall that's another 30m and 2/3 seasons. No wonder Bruce went the loan route.The problem with that though, is that if you manage to sign the players good enough to get you up and who'd be good enough to keep you up, there's no way they're going to hang around being a Championship player for 3 or 4 years. I can't see anyway that Grealish will stick around for another year, and it would be likely that McGinn would move on too.
Where do people come up with the stuff?Whose been promoted recently needing to have spent £50m?
And Huddersfield and Burnley spent far less.I really don't understand why people are concerned about how we'd fare in the top flight. Let's get there first.
Quote from: Ads on January 22, 2019, 12:52:35 PMAnd Huddersfield and Burnley spent far less.I really don't understand why people are concerned about how we'd fare in the top flight. Let's get there first.And how do we do that without spending a shitload of money? Look at the players leaving or on loan this season and tell me honestly, who you would re-sign, replace with new signings, replace with existing players/youth/loans and then give me your budget to do itBunnSteerElphickTuanzebeHauseHuttonDe LaetWhelanJedinakBolasieEl ghaziAbraham