if early summer ITK infos are correct we gonna sign 1 or 2 big names still. otherwise lot of crap was fed to ITKs if Savio is the only name.
and those bigger rumours were way before we knew we gonna cash in on JA.
I expect busy 2 weeks for PL top6/top7, lot of money still to be spent on transfers.
to me it will look fishy if the step on the brake so much with about 100m positive in net spend. either something with the shit ffp case hanging over us or Pep not fancy a renewal or any rebuild and wants one last go with what we have.
sure we had lessons to learn from Phillips, Nunes transfers, but at least the Kovacic type of transfer where we get a cheap, experienced rotational option for a DM and instead of Alvarez wouldnt cost a fortune and could be very useful. otherwise we could have said last summer why bring in Kovacic, Stones can continue to step up to midfield, and Lewis can fill in etc. Kovacic then ended up with decent minutes and became a good rotational option, and see out games etc with also not demanding to be first name on the teamsheet.
and then we even brought Nunes on top thinking we need even more options.
its the opposite this summer.
get Chelsea game out of the way and then I am sure Pep will have a talk with Txiki again albeit any business we might do now we could have done a month ago too.
worried of KDB as well especially fitness wise, and games coming up every 3 days and he is still to play for Belgium a lot too, last season he was more fresh 2nd half of season due to his huge time off 1st half of it. we had end product from Alvarez to offset him missing a lot of games but imo he will still miss a lot of game at least as in rotation but few injuries also expected.
and there are more CL games and new CWC in June and possibly wont go out of Carabao very first game like last season.
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