Signing a 27/28 peak aged midfielder who was a top 4 sides best CM by a distance gives the squad a massive injection. You need the odd instant star to level up the whole team.
Douglas-Luiz because he could knit defence to attack to make us even...
He's 27. Gareth Barry signed for us when he was 32/33. Luiz could easily play for us for another 7/8 years and if he moves us up the table we can attract better players/buy younger players to replace him.
Let’s be honest, if I take the 18 players currently in the squad mentioned in this thread as correct then we have 7 places to fill in the PL squad.
1. Right winger - priority
2. Centre Mid/creative or box to box style to drive us forward
3...
Newcastle have been played big time. Told the RS Isak isn't for sale and left Ekitike negotiations. Now the RS have wrapped Ekitike up Isak tells them he'd like to leave. If they cave into the RS now they will be a laughing stock.
That's a different player I believe, Diaz was supposed to be swapped with Porto for James and according to reports , Benitez scuppered the deal as he didn't deem Diaz good enough.
40m imo was worth paying for richy and siggy. wat got us into trouble was splashing 25-30m on a truckload of crap underperformers. if we can get the luiz pre injury and pre juve then 40m is well spent in this day and age of 70-100m elite players