Sorensen has already nabbed most of these.
We have the goalie from Liverpool and the centre back from Hearts plus the 3 we know about. Over half way and that’s before the Charlton centre back joins
Or if another team did this, it would be seen as clever. Getting a local journo to start a story to pressurise a selling club. One version will be right… new or old Everton… we shall see!!
It is a tough balance, but when you need as many players as we do, then you need to be pragmatic.
Yes you want to try and get your number 1 or 2 target, but there comes a point where you have to move on and make sure that you still get someone...
The ‘committee’ shouldn’t really impact. All of the members are experienced with English football and will have all of the available data on players. The manager presumably gets a list of ‘possibles’ to approve and the committee goes after them...
Chelsea have obviously hoarded but I think City have just benefited from the Champions tax when they sold players. Lots from the ‘nearly good enough’ brigade.
We need to do better to attract the better kids to flog for more than a few quid.