Thing is Beast, if your right about the 80 million budget, and i believe your a man of your word, that aint gonna be enough for both Gerrard and lampard. Im wondering if Mourinho is after one of them and is hedging his bets.
as far as i read, it was never a question of getting both! therefore 80m € is enough to get one of them.
personally i think, that if it has to be one of those two, i'd say gerrard would have the better options to adapt due to xabi alonso.
but i don't want him for the reason i already meantioned beofre.
Not with Raul taking a player/coach role or leaving to other team .. who will replace higuain ? no one
negredo...i know he had a quite shitty season, but IMO benzema is not the phisical, powerfull type of striker mourinho likes to use. benzema too much higuaín with a little overweight.
btw...with regards to city, VDV, gago & higuaín. as far as i know, those 50m € were the offer for all three players! therefore, no 90m € or something in case that deal would have come true. now i think, with higuaín being nontransferable - for now - the deal might be around 35-40m € for gago & VDV.