The reality is the club has no money until it pays off it’s credit card revolving line of £200m at the end of the month with all the shenanigans of the Takeover Turmoil let’s try and work on the bases of three scenarios;
Scenario A - The Glazers do not make their mind up until September/October but have kept both potential owners in the loop. Arnold, ETH and Murtourgh carry on their work and look to spend £175-185m after Sales are made. We Sell D Henderson, Fred, H Maguire, E Bailey, B Williams, A Elanga, A Telles for about £75m but Williams, Henderson and Elanga are all net profit £40m which basically buys you £100m player over 5 years at £20m and pays his £15m per year wages on your books.
This is the current path we are on and probably means we would sign;
D Raya(35m), KMJ(50m), A Rabiot(Free), M Mount (60m), R Hojlund (40m), M Thuram (Free)
Scenario B - The most likely right now SJR buys the club with his Glazers put and call deal within next two weeks meaning he takes control in sone form by July. He wants to make a statement and appoints Paul Clements as DOF we sell All of the above list but add S Mctominay and M Greenwood for about £65m so we now have about £320m to spend and probably means we sign ; D Costa(55m), KMJ(50m), R Lavia (35m), M Mount(55m),
R Hojlund(40m), H Kane (90m)
Scenario C - The least likely takeover option but it could still happen SJ and Qatar takeover the club within 2 weeks, Clear the debt in July and instruct a complete clear out all of the above from the two above lists plus AWB, A Martial and J Sancho and Spend £400m on the following ; D Costa (50m),
J Frimpong(30m), KMJ (50m), M Caciedo (75m), M Veratti(25m), M Mount(50m), V Osimhen(120m), Neymar (Loan)
They will pay less on some deals because the Qataris will pay some of them in one instalment not over 4 or 5 years.
