With these prices, it seems we'll have to take a cheap(ish) punt on a lesser-known player and hope it pans out. Time to put that scouting department to work and give us some names who don't make first page headlines in sports papers already.
Make no mistake, good, high potential, lesser-known players are also going to run you some 25-30m.
Yeah. To be honest I doubt the board have the confidence to even risk dropping 25-30m on an unknown player with potential. They will go for the Morata's, Azpi's, Marcos Alonsos, Di Maria, etc.
We are being priced out of the market, and will lose alot of opportunities because we can't move until all economic levers are confirmed. Not unless we can sign agreements and confirm later in the market, or even Loan+Buy as other clubs have done to push around salary cap issues.
But the stagnation suggests it will take time even if Laporta has everything agreed (which he doesn't), as it needs to be reviewed and accepted by LaLiga. And make no mistake, the numbers will be at the absolute lowest end financially and the highest % of equity loss. Bank on it. So I doubt there will be much in the way of the transfer budget.
Even cheap opportunities are slipping out of our hands. I'm reading Andrey Santos (18 yr old DMC from Vasco I mentioned quite a bit) will likely move to PSG who have gone to poll position and offering just 8 million (at face value).
