firfi wrote:EliteKiller wrote:The issue is that we've stacked the salary budget with deadwood for whom we will get a mere fraction of their replacement costs
Laca - 10m a year final year of contract - let's be madly optimistic and say we get 25m
Auba - 13m a year two years on his contract - no chance anyone will pay us to take that contract on 0m
Willian - 10m a year two years on his contract - no chance anyone will pay us to take that contract on 0m
Xhaka - 5.5m a year two years of contract - let's be madly optimistic and say we get 15m
Luiz - 6.5m a year final out of contract
So on the plus side we can free up 45m a year in salary ... that will pay for five decent players
On the negative side we will lose 5 senior squad players for just 40m .... we would need to buy five squad players two strikers, two midfield players and a defender just to stand still .... that's 250m any day of the week, where is that money coming from? and we'd still need at least another two defenders to have any chance of top six ....
We need young and relatively cheap players. Players that cost 5-10m that we can turn into assets.For a very long time we look for the short term to puchase and get old players on high wages or players on the free and put them on high wages and then we don't have an asset ,but a burden.We need players like Guendouzi ,but they need to be coached better.
We can't go from 9th to 4th in a season its unrealistic. The gap is way too big.From Manager which we have probably the worst in the league to so much deadwood.I can't believe this is third manager that picks that Xhaka guy , when i see him i wanna kill myself.
I hear you but that just makes us the same as everyone from West Ham down ... whilst it's great to buy - develop - use your own talent if you have to compete against City, Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea (and I fear Spurs as well now) who can just buy the finished products ... then unless you have a 'fluke' season the best you can hope for is 6-10th place .... that's the reality of money driven football.
Just look at any league in Europe to see that played out .... so whilst you dreams of buying cheap players who will all develop into world beaters ... sadly it's just a dream, we will struggle to keep the few '
world beaters' we are developing right now ... if we can't compete finacially then we can't compete.
Under Kroenke we have spent more on salary than all bar City, Chelsea and Utd .... now we find ourselves behind Liverpool as well with Spurs catching up fast.
The problem hasn't been paying enough money it's been wasting it - finding diamonds in the rough, that's just a pipe-dream - We simply need to buy better quality players.