If the maguire transfer is true we'll have outspend everyone in the league so far. How are we skint?
Who has spent more than us in england? If we're skint everyone else must be in criminal levels of debt.
It’s difficult to add context on a forum so I get latching onto the word ‘skint’ but here goes; we have in the last 2.5 windows [.5 as this window isn’t over] shown ourselves unwilling to speculate in order to accumulate, in accordance with the funds you would expect given the money the club generates.
We’re about to buy Maguire [likely] & are about to sell Lakaku [likely], instalments or not aside, & the relative costs of those deals will cancel each other out, so we’ll have spent about £70mil on AWB & the young Welsh Wizard.
We’ve also lost a number of first team squad members in the past year that were ‘high earners’ that haven’t been replaced in spite of leaving us short in areas.
So yes, you are both right [something that matters most on here apparently], we aren’t ‘skint’ compared to the vast majority of English/World Football but we also aren’t flexing anywhere near our financial muscle when the squad is in desperate need of calculated investment.