All for playing the long ball game, as long as our owners set aside the amount as an addition should it happen, rather than take half of our summer budget away. But we know how that plays out. So if we can’t buy other players in the meantime, and we don’t end up getting De Jong, we are in trouble.
That is a slight worry I've got at the moment. The longer they both (FDJ and Ronaldo) drag on, the more it effects other potential incomings as well.
I'm not seeing any transfer talk of other incomings to the level we were with Malacia, Martinez and Eriksen.
While we were still addressing other necessary areas as well, it made the dragging on of this, and the Ronaldo situation, less of a hindrance to deals.
But now, with us not knowing whether FDJ is coming, or if Ronaldo is leaving so needs to be replaced
this summer with an expensive addition, then that's a potential, say, £120m+ outlay that we
may or may not be spending on those two areas this summer. Until we know if we are or not, I can't see (m)any additions in other areas. So we could really do with some kind of resolution either way - certainly on the Ronaldo situation (looks like we'll hold out for FDJ for as long as possible) - then the club know where we stand budget wise.