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Six more signings and 135 million War Chest?

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According to today's press, 135mill war chest, including the players already bought.

6 more signings Who could they be ?

Markovic and Bony likely 2 of them, the other 4..

Probably Vorm, Lovren.. and couple of young players..

Who would you realistically like to see. . ?

We got any bods here who can work out what we have left after our current spends.. ???

One could assume wages will be also taken into account in this War Chest..
 
Markovic - 25
Origi - 10
Lovren - 20
a LB
a striker
a GK?

37 already spent, so 92 as designated above.

Leaves 43 for the other 3. Maybe 6 on Vorm. 37 on the remaining two.
 
I wander if the 200k a week savings on Suarez wages is part of this Warchest..

Im always sceptical with these sort of War Chest.... Wages I imagine will be included in that amount...
 
Think this would be a very poor way for you to spend the Suarez money.

Lots of squad strengthening with some good players but you dido need at least one world class signing either a striker or a n attacking wide man.
 
I'd like to see come in:

Markovic - 20mill
Origi - 10mill
Rojo - 20mil
Bony - 20mill
Lovren - 20mill

On top of the 40 we've already spent on the llama/can/lambert

That's 130mill.
 
RedNinja said:
I wander if the 200k a week savings on Suarez wages is part of this Warchest..

Im always sceptical with these sort of War Chest.... Wages I imagine will be included in that amount...
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They aren't usually.

And I'm not sure what you even mean. The wages of all the players signed? For how many years? The entire length of their contracts?
 
ChastenedMUFC said:
Think this would be a very poor way for you to spend the Suarez money.

Lots of squad strengthening with some good players but you dido need at least one world class signing either a striker or a n attacking wide man.
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You're right. We should spend world class money such as £30m a pop on players who are not proven to be world class in the slightest
 
Mors said:
None of their players bar Shaw would make our first team. We could prop the bench up with van persie and that's about it.
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Mata or Kagawa would be useful.

Mad that Southampton has more players that would be good enough though.
 
I hope we sign an up and coming talent up top, alongside Markovic, that would be all the more interesting. I know we could take the easy route and buy someone like Bony (sorry Cloggy!), but I'd rather see us invest in a young exciting prospect. Imagine having Coutinho/Sturridge, Markovic/another.
 
mark1975 said:
I hope we sign an up and coming talent up top, alongside Markovic, that would be all the more interesting. I know we could take the easy route and by someone like Bony (sorry Cloggy!), but I'd rather see us invest in a young exciting prospect. Imagine having Coutinho/Sturridge, Markovic/another.
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Agreed.

Tbh I'm starting to wonder if we should just throw Lille a few extra million for Origi and use him as Sturridge backup. He started at the World Cup, so surely he could handle that.

Then go for someone really special in the 'wide forward' role. And maybe sort a right back and GK too.
 
mark1975 said:
I hope we sign an up and coming talent up top, alongside Markovic, that would be all the more interesting. I know we could take the easy route and by someone like Bony (sorry Cloggy!), but I'd rather see us invest in a young exciting prospect. Imagine having Coutinho/Sturridge, Markovic/another.
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I would rather have someone who scores 20+ goals.
 
cloggypop said:
I would rather have someone who scores 20+ goals.
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So would I, but in the longterm you have to ask if a) he's suited to how we play, or just too similar to Sturridge, and b) another player of similar ilk to Benteke, Cisse, who will eventually either decline, get found out, or lose his initial doggedness through injury. I just don't see him as a great longterm prospect, I think we'd be kicking ourselves after a season or so. Like I said, he's great as a quick fix and I wouldn't be against him in that respect, I just don't think his game is that suited to ours or that he bridges the gap for us enough, because he's just too similar to what we already have.
 
Or he could go on and be better than Drogba. He already scores more than him at the same age and has shown he can do it in this league.
 
ChastenedMUFC said:
I would say De Gea, Mata, RVP, Shaw and Herrera would all have a good shot of getting into your first XI
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There's a few, I think it's a bit rose-tinted to say none of them would - De Gea, Mata, RVP, Rooney, Shaw, Carrick, Hernandez would all at the very least be worthy of a place in the squad.
 
cloggypop said:
Or he could go on and be better than Drogba.
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He could, I'm not writing him off, he just strikes me as similar to other players who've done well for a season or two and then will just go on the slide. FWIW I'm not that convinced by Lukaku either, I just think they're both a bit too much rugged and not enough panache. We could do with the former, but it's not indifferent to what Lambert was brought in for (I know he's got other aspects to his game).
 
Drogba scored 16 goals in both of his first 2 seasons at Chelsea. Bony got 25 at Swansea last season.
 
I don't like the sudden influx of so many new players. Too many I feel may not be good for the team.

Upsets the dynamics and possibly unity of the team that was painstakingly built up all these years.

Takes time too for everyone to gel together.

Just take a look at Spurs last season.

I'd rather one super star player than 5 mediocre ones. Squad depth or not.

It's so easy to manage a team ala CM style but in reality there's so much more factors to consider and manage. One of the most important one would be unity. Not easy to get everyone to 'click' right away. We have to be very careful who we buy and not go scatter-gun with it. Quality over quantity anytime of the day.
 
My_Blood_Bleeds_Red said:
I don't like the sudden influx of so many new players. Too many I feel may not be good for the team.

Upsets the dynamics and possibly unity of the team that was painstakingly built up all these years.

Takes time too for everyone to gel together.

Just take a look at Spurs last season.

I'd rather one super star player than 5 mediocre ones. Squad depth or not.

It's so easy to manage a team ala CM style but in reality there's so much more factors to consider and manage. One of the most important one would be unity. Not easy to get everyone to 'click' right away. We have to be very careful who we buy and not go scatter-gun with it. Quality over quantity anytime of the day.
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I think the Spurs comparison is a very bad one, but it's being used over and over again.

They spent a lot of money replacing their one world class player with several young, new to the league players. They hooked a manager who had alienated several players, had only been there a season and had failed in his last job, midway through the season - then replaced him with an inexperienced stop-gap who did a decent job but wasn't up to the job in the end.

The difference between losing their one and only world class player and replacing him with several new players during a disjointed, destabilising season was 3 points was it not?

Did Spurs, under the circumstances, really have such a bad season? Is there predicament for 2013/14 really comparable to Liverpool's of 2014/15? Not in my opinion.
 
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