Hi guys, hope everything is well.
I did an updated forecast for how much costs we can incur on the transfer market this summer:
The relevant figure is app. £48.2m, which can be put in relation to that the cost for signing a £100m player on a 5 year deal at 200k a week is app. 30m. This mean that our maximum spend this summer -- without selling any players -- would be app. 100-150m.
But remember, if we sell players, it wouldn't impact our transfer budget on a pound in/pound out basis. Just selling Maguire, Henderson and McTominay for say £60m reduces our costs significantly:
This would immediately increase our potential transfer spend to £300m.
With this in mind, I think the information in the El Pais about a week ago is immensely interesting (via google translate):
But isn't this a complete fantasty? Could we really spend Boehly money? I wouldn't say "easily", but if ETH get ruthless and we sell players to raise capital -- and we sell players not to get rid of them, but to raise capital (Lindelof and AWB) it should definitely be possible. If we make the below sales we could spend 500m, i.e. manage to sell Sancho for 30m (his 350k/week salary amounts to 20-25m basically, so thats like getting 50-60m for him), 20m for Maguire, zero for Martial, 30m for Lindelof, zero for Telles, 25m for Henderson, zero for Bailly and 20m for McTominay.
This would explain why we are connected to RBs and RCBs despite AWB and Lindelof playing really well lately. I mean AWB is our No 1 RB right now, perhaps its Dalot that is going?
With the above said -- this is basically what Raine is telling buyers is possible (and it is) -- without any capital contribution (the money would be drawn from a new credit line) -- it of course don't mean that either Sheik Jassim or Ineos would do it.