bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
You're probably right to be fair, he's a huge player for a good Napoli side. After this season he'll probably be sought after by a lot of clubs too.
I'm basing him as a buy just on WRD's info that we wanted him in January - he's a brilliant player so who knows.
We really need to speculate to accumulate now, get some money pumped into the squad and attract the best young players - Dolberg and Tielemans are going to be stars and their price will never be lower than it is at the moment so it's important for us to be in for these types of players.
Having a net spend of £28m and also having a huge wage increase of 300-400k per week would be a huge statement of intent IMO. The figures are less important really anyway, I meant more in that those ins and outs would transform us into a serious contender.
I wholeheartedly agree mate, in the current climate especially buying talented young players (even for decent fees) simply just wont see you losing out ultimately, and comes with the huge potential of them developing into the class of player we simply at this time can't attract, much as i hate to admit it, the rs have had two of those with Torres and Suarez over the years (and maybe now again with Coutinho) - players who at their peak (when playing for them) they would never have been able to attract. But they took the risk on them all when other teams where unsure (fair enough they have had loads of utter busts as well - although most they made their money back on at least)
For what it's worth - i think we will see a overall spend of around 150m this summer from us, a large part of which will be funded by 'none-essential' player sales, and a 'net spend' of around the 60m mark.