With Milner seemingly leaving it seems like we might have a bit of a dilemma in this department, really don't want us to go wasting all our limited FFP budget on some overrated english player.
IMO, we should sign Delph on something like a 3 year deal. Probably not good enough for city when all is said and done, but is a good player and not impossible he could make it in a squad player type capacity, and more importantly would tend to quota needs. He would also be free in the summer, so there would be minimal cost outside of wages and I reckon we would have more appeal than spurs, who could also not guarantee him a first team place.
The free transfer element also would mean if he did flop, there would be no real cost to us, rather than spending 60 mil on Barkley who although better is far from the finished article and would probably get around the same amount of football.
Does anybody else have suggestions for english players we could buy that doesn't utilize our entire budget?
IMO, we should sign Delph on something like a 3 year deal. Probably not good enough for city when all is said and done, but is a good player and not impossible he could make it in a squad player type capacity, and more importantly would tend to quota needs. He would also be free in the summer, so there would be minimal cost outside of wages and I reckon we would have more appeal than spurs, who could also not guarantee him a first team place.
The free transfer element also would mean if he did flop, there would be no real cost to us, rather than spending 60 mil on Barkley who although better is far from the finished article and would probably get around the same amount of football.
Does anybody else have suggestions for english players we could buy that doesn't utilize our entire budget?