I hope we don't make the same mistake we keep doing nearly every summer of wasting the whole window chasing an unattainable player whilst other sensible deals are had by our rivals for midfield options that would be an automatic upgrade on what have.
Yes I would be surprised to see this deal happen,doesnt mean he is unobtainable. What is vitally important, is if we are genuinely interested in signing him....we act fast and get concrete information of whether the deal can go ahead or not, not play ct n mouse all summer for the transfer to never happen.
If we were to sign DeJOng, it doesnt solve our urgent need to sign a proper defensive midfielder, but it does blow a fair amount of the budget....saying that
£DeJong £65m + Kamara free - that would be a promising rebuild of our pivots at reasonable pricing overall
Our overall spend is so dependant on the Greenwood situation I feel though that hopefully becomes clear soon. If he stays it means we done need to sign both a right winger and a striker, we can buy just one, thats a lot of money saveed from the summer spend and allows us to make a bigger signing elsewhere liek DeJOng, if he goes we certainly need to buy both