On first reading, it sounded like they'd just found an extra £50m down the sofa with the 'newly emboldened plans."
Delaney is a good source though so there is at least some promise in this, whatever the final amount that will be spent.
All of...
The first version of this article claimed we had £200 million to spend. The article in the link suggests £150 million, and the headline £100 million.
Lost £100 million in a matter of minutes.
Be interesting to see what the clubs that did stay up did in their first window back up. The last few we’ve had have just gone gung-Ho with young talent and wilted.
The promoted sides all going down is a very recent thing tbh, it’s happened twice in like 25 years or so.
Just need to look at the table last season to see relatively recently promoted sides that have sailed past us.
Your summary of what's happened so far is maybe a little bit puffed up to make it sound more impressive than it actually is. We didn't renegotiate on Alcaraz, we triggered the option to buy at the price we had already agreed in January. Barry was...
Well they haven’t yet, have they?
And don’t twist what I actually said. I said they have it all to prove and that the budget was still an unknown entity, which it is. You can’t argue against it I’m afraid.
If you told someone in May that by 18th July we’d have signed 2 new players with one of them being a sub keeper, you’d have been told to stop being such a ridiculous crybaby bedwetter.
I’m yet to be convinced we actually have the finances to do that. We’ve spent a fair chunk of coin on Barry out of absolute necessity due to Calvert Lewis leaving, but as to the overall budget, that is still to be determined.
Roma...
Massively.... how difficult is it to prepare?
Seems like we are shocked every year that this transfer window comes around and we spend the 1st few weeks of it trying to remember how to do transfers!