Did you just sell our entire back line in one window except for Godfrey? And Coleman who should have retired years ago and a bunch of kids with about 4 games between them? Ffs
We can both dress it up however we want I suppose.
Id say IF Mina goes due to his wages/contract/injuries and IF Digne goes due to Benitez then were 2 men down.
Then we absolutely need a starting LB and a starting CB.
Lets say we then have:
LB: New LB / Nkounkou
CB: New CB / Godfrey / Branthwaite
Do we 'need' a 4th choice (that extremely rarely plays)? Or could we just have Welch as 4th choice around the squad gaining experience?
If its the latter then we could sell Keane and Holgate, bank the cash/wages.
Plus of course we will 'lose' Kenny and have Coleman as backup. Thats a certainty.
So Jan/ summer (not one, but two windows) we move on:
Mina
Digne
Keane
Holgate
Kenny
We go with:
LB: New player / Nkounkou
CB: New player / Godfrey / Branthwaite / Welch
RB: New Player / Coleman
£60mil+ fees / £300k+ wages to use on 3 players.
Theres a lot of value in the market at the moment.
Think u undervalued our players there.
Mina easy 25-30 mil
Keane 20
Holgate 20 still young
Mina: Only 18months left / £100k+ wages / injury issues / theres a lot of risk for us if we keep him and he suffers one 'mid-long' term injury.
Keane is a donkey and probably earning £75k ish a week.
Holgate is a squad player and again probably on £50-60k a week so im being conservative at £10mil...maybe £15mil at a push.
Lol at how specific that is.
It's Zat so he has probably worked it out based on months left of contract and what not
lol no it was listed in a couple of dodgy sites specifically at £17.1mil in midweek. Possibly due to exchange rate GBP/EUR.