Then we have 30 million tied up that we can’t spend
Remember, buying a player for PSR, the amortization is spread across their contract e.g £20mil on a 4 year deal is £5mil a year.
If Roma paid us £5mil then that £5mil hits our books instantly as a 'loan/sale' + his wages are added on to the fee, so we'd be even.
If there was an obligation in the deal at the end of the season for a profit, e.g £20mil then we would have:
Wesley book value at £15mil. Therefore we'd make £5mil profit.
That £5mil profit can be used to sign another £20mil player on a 4 year deal.
I think its far fetched and would much rather we just signed him. But there may be a benefit here. Who knows.
I think the additional one would have to be a loan. Can’t see us spending decent money on Barry, Kubo, a central midfielder and another.
I think the 2 'key' signings are in the full back positions. If were able to sign Tagliafico at LB on a free then clearly we save a fee for another position.
The Keane extension and reading that we had a new CB deal ready to go suggests that we want to use the CB money on another position.
Perhaps after the Tete deal fell through, were prioritising a RB for a fee. Impossible to know.
Once LB & RB are sorted then we should see where we are with the remaining positions...of course we have no idea on the order or possible signings.