What is all this rubbish about money left over to spend in January??!
Some simple maths for you all:
Anichebe and Fellaini left for a combined total of £32.5m
4% of that goes to the league via their levy: that's about £1.5m, so we're down to £31m
Standard take 20% of the profit on Felli; we made £10m profit, so that's another £2m gone. Down to £29m
McCarthy comes in for £13m rising to £15m;let's say his wage is covered by Anichebe's old wage. Down to £14m we go.
Then Lukaku comes in, for a reported £5m loan fee. (No mention of his wages yet, but let's say they are covered by the wage space freed up when Felli left.) We're down to £9m.
Barry comes in. This is the bit i'm worried about - how much of his £6m per year salary are we paying? If we're covering the lot, then that's us down to £3m.
Anyone who thinks there's money left for January, because they believe "the McCarthy purchase was not dependent on Fellaini's sale", please feel free to disagree. This is Bill we're talking about though.
Come next June we will lose Barry, Lukaku and Deulofeu. We will need to sign a CM, an RM and a CF. But we won't have any money left from Felli's transfer to do so. That's why we should have held out for more money from United, and that's why we shouldn't have caved in to Dave Whelan's ridiculous demands.