I really hope we have $20m+ and if we do we have to be sure not to waste the cash and be very diligent with it.. I don't want us to do a Werder Bremen and spend good amounts of cash on some players for it to backfire and leave us in a tricky situation.
I keep forgetting about the TV money... I really hope that we have cash though it really is exciting people linked with a player and thinking we really could buy them.
I look at it this way, in the summer before sales, Martinez spent £8-10m on the likes of Kone, Joel, signing Alcaraz on a free (signing on fee, agents fees) and Deulofeu on loan. Where did that £8-10m come from? It was the cut the board put up from the new tv money coming in.
There is another installment coming in for next season and the one after that so the minimum cut from that again you would imagine will be £10m, unless the board puts more up, but lets stick to the minimum, £10m.
We all know the amounts weve brought in for the sales of Felli (£25m after Standards cut of the profits), Anichebe (£4m upfront) & Jelavic (£7.5m as there staying up definitely) so add that up, take away what we spent on McCarthy, Barry, Lukaku, McGeady & Traore and roughly i think weve got about £10m left of what we made from sales, which will give us £20m in total come the summer in theory.
Martinez did say recently that were in a great financial position and are summer spending will reflect that, and i believe him. He said that Kenwright as promised him that any money he brings in from sales will all go towards his kitty.
Make CL and god knows what his total transfer pot could be?. Either way, we will be spending this summer before sales IMO!