Kieran Maguire pulled a number from thin air on the sale of the women’s team. Others ran with variations on his guess. There is nothing to confirm or deny it and likely won’t be until the accounts are published though Everton did initially brief a couple of trusted journalists that “we had not done a Chelsea” and that the sums involved were “modest”. We will eventually find out but for now any figure is purely speculative.
Chelseas hotel, womens team and others were of course worth vastly more due to the land values and success.
However, it would be sensible to maximise any sale advantage as you never know what room you may need tomorrow.
Btw that Kieran Maguire seems to be a rent a quote.
Just watching city bring on 100 millions pounds worth of players form the bench and watching other teams spend big and was wondering has anyone spent less than us so far this season. Grealish is a loan aznaou is one for the future so somewhere in the region of 50 million? Probably inaccurate but it would be interesting to see who has spent the least in the league!
Grealish £12mil loan fee
Aznou £9mil
Travers £4mil
King £undisclosed
KDH £28mil incl add ons
Alcaraz £12.5mil
Barry £27.5mil
That would actually be a very smart move by them. Amazing player with a very very high ceiling, that El Khannouss. Would absolutely love him here.
He'd have been a good move by us. Albeit out of position or a formation change needed, he could have linked well with Alcaraz and
Ndiaye.
If we are going for the double Pienaar (which is almost a certainty without a RB coming in), you bring in Dib and let Ndiaye work on his playmaking in the middle and do what he does best in functioning as that 2nd striker/goalscorer. This team can be very good if we get the wings going. It won't happen without heavy investment in the right side. Either has to be a class right back or right wing.
Ndiaye left
Grealish centre
Alcaraz right
But Leeds id not use any new signings, bar alcaraz.
Ndiaye isnt a player who has generated assists so far...grealish and alcaraz are players who can as central options.
I think we need both a RB & RW plus a top DM as well but i have no faith we'll get the types id like.
This has us mid table for spending so far
That looks way off.
Most people here would state the timeliness in the recruitment process this window has been a "failure" and no improvement on previous seasons for some time, even though there was the scope to do so this time around.
I didn't see him blaming others but he stated that it was difficult.
Timeliness in general is something that always needs addressing, and setting example of turning up on time and meeting deadlines would help.
A disciplined approach, rather than "wait it out and hope on the off chance " narrative of deflated expectations.
He could do with shedding the "dithering" tag for a "decisive" one, immediately.
I think the implications out of his mouth this summer have been that hes been let down by others who havent signed the players he wanted.