There are very, very few players worth breaking the budget for. A high percentage of expensive transfers flop and it's essentially unpredictable. The great teams are built with sensible and patient transfer business.
Can’t one of Bailly, Jones, Tuanzebe or Mengi be the fourth choice CB, if needs be?
They probably won’t see much game time anyway bar an injury crisis. And if we sign a new starting CB, will any of Varane, Maguire or Lindelof be happy being...
It depends. I don’t think central defence is an area that we are so weak that we have to abandon our preferred signings for the sake of waiting a year.