Take Leicester for example. 160M on wages from their accounts. Take away 30M for for staff etc.. (on the high side)... Then let's say a squad of 25 players... That averages exactly at 100,000 per week.
Pickford was not a skipper, the original post I was answering was about him being a leader, I do not see him as a significant improvement on what we've got and using him as a leader is not evidence of that when he has just skippered a side to relegation.
Exactly mate, they got relegated last week, them making Europe was a flash in the pan so to speak when teams hadn't worked out how to play against them, once they were found out as a one trick pony they became perennial strugglers, plucky but strugglers nonetheless and he was a big part of that and I don't see him as the central defender we desperately need.
Burnley didn't go down due to their defence they went down because they are a basic football team going forward. And anyway you can't blame one player.
Where did I say I was blaming him? It's a team game but he was the captain and central defender in a side that leaked goals so he played a major part in their relegation.
Experience, he's always fit, leadership/organisation and he is proven at this level. Also he's on a free and while the wages might be higher we can give him a couple of years contract. Who knows if we will get him and if we had a budget to get better of course I would. But if we can get him and a young CB we can move two of the likes of Keane/Holgate/Mina. I like Mina but he's never fit enough to justify the wage. Then it's overhauling the defence for not much transfer outlay.
As I said it was their lack of attacking prowess that sent them down ultimately. I agree Burnley do play a deeper line but then we have at points too, we need a better midfield to shield whoever is in our defence, a proper DM.
As I said in a previous post, if he does comes here I hope he proves me wrong, but I feel after last season we need to be bringing in someone whose not war weary, not a bog standard player on £100k a week with no sell on value, god knows we have enough of them already.
Let's agree to disagree, I think we should be aiming for better, younger and less relegation weary.
Another Michael Kean hey ho - we need to be buying players with sell on fees .....
