Bit baffling to read shouts for players who come next season will be Lescott (32 in aug), Milner (29 in jan) and Podolski (29 in June)
are all 3 still pretty good, well yeah, but lets be realistic, all 3 will deteriorate over a 4-5 year contract, all 3 would have zero resale, all 3 would be on approx the 100k a week mark, and 2 of the 3 would probably command a fee upwards of 8-12m to actually bring in
all 3 of these type of signings scream out desperation and short term solutions which would eventual;ly cause a major wage issue down the line.
In our current financial position, we need to be looking for the likes of the McCarthy's, the Mirrales's, people like Tadic, Defour, mid twenties who are at or nearing their peak rather than on the down side of their careers, and getting that average first team age down a little, rather than bringing it up on expensive high wage (name players)
people shouting for Batshuayi for 10m or whatever, i find amusing though, for one i reckon with maybe dutch being the exception, not a single one of the people shouting for him over Lukaku has ever seen the lad play and are going purely on his youtube skeeeelz clips, kinda amusing as i think im the first person to have mentioned him on these forums back in august transfer window thread as well although i stated at the time that i only linked him cos he was some belgium under 21 lid like lukaku and benteke previously

, fact is he could be a utter waste of money and we cant afford to waste it on a gamble when theirs the likes of Lukaku and Benteke potentially obtainable