Inter Milan fire the opening shots in the battle for Firmino!!
Come on we can beat £75 million surely !!!
Insist that they take Rakitic as well even if It means paying them more !!
Inter Milan fire the opening shots in the battle for Firmino!!
Come on we can beat £75 million surely !!!
Insist that they take Rakitic as well even if It means paying them more !!
I have a way more ambitious plan that includes more sales and salary shedding to bring in the players, but it might be too ambitious and even if it was doable, Abidal and Bartomeu are incapable of planning something like this.
I don't disagree with your plan except for Neymar who I just don't see any reason for spending that much money on but you have us spending 500m which we probably can't afford (after what we've already spend in recent years) even in two transfer windows as there is no way we'll sell the mentioned players for close to 300m. The only realistic prices are Raki and Vidal and maybe we'll get lucky to get close to 70m for Coutinho. No club will pay 60m for Dembele with his injury problems or 40m for Umtiti. 30m for Suarez is also a stretch because he doesn't want to leave and as I've mentioned I acually expect us to renew his contract (which I disagree with). But if he'll decide to leave it will probably be to MLS for around 10m or even for free. Also don't see anyone paying 40m for Roberto (he's also another player who doesn't want to leave, lol) and for 20m or so I prefer to keep him as a versatile squad player.
I have a way more ambitious plan that includes more sales and salary shedding to bring in the players, but it might be too ambitious and even if it was doable, Abidal and Bartomeu are incapable of planning something like this.
Might also take two transfer windows. Will take a lot of transfer spending to correct the mistakes they've made over the last few years.
Values from transfermarkt.de
Basically the players I would sell:
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Dembele - 60m
Rakitic - 20m
Umtiti - 40m
Vidal - 20m
Perez - 11m - already done
Roberto - 40m - would make it easier for us to get better players
Luis Suarez - 30m - this is a tough one and something that some of you might react negatively to, but he's going to be a 33 year old striker with chronic knee issues that just went through a major surgery, with a year left on his contract as one of the top five best paid players in the World
Signings:
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Upamecano - 60m
Lautaro Martinez - 110m - I assume they'll do this
Fabian Ruiz - 80m - I assume they'll do this so included both
Camavinga - 40m
Dest - 25
Neymar - 160m
Todibo - Back from loan
Alena - Back from loan
GKs: ter Stegen & Neto
DEF: Semedo, Dest, Pique, Upamecano, Lenglet, Todibo, Alba, Firpo
MID: Busquets, de Jong, Arthur, Fabian R, Camavinga, Alena
FOR: Messi, Trincao, Lautaro, Griezmann, Neymar, Ansu
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Angel, Willian Jose, Lucas Perez, Loren Moron.
Four options.