200-300m Seriously how do you make that out.
We know we will sign at least 7-8 players and that's just to cover positions that will be left via contracts ending, never mind padding out our squad depth.
The club are unlikely to sign plug-ins or players that don't meet Pep's standards, as they have an obligation to back him to the hilt. These players are expensive and City, as usual, will pay a premium.
Right now from fairly solid rumors and ITKs on this forum alone, we could be looking at (to start)
Ederson
One of Laporte/Bonucci
Fabinho
Henrichs
Isco
Mbappe
Sanchez
That alone smashes anything we've ever attempted in a window.
Well, aside from having the richest owner in football, we can actually afford that of our own accord when you consider:
1. Incoming from player sales. Hart is £25m, Navas should pick up £15-20m, Aguero £70m or more. And others too (Nasri, Mooy, maybe Bravo).
2. Big wage contracts coming off the books. A selection of players will be leaving this summer and almost all of them will be on north of £100,000 a week, some north of £200,000.
We havent spent those kind of sums before in one window.
It's cliche, but I expect this window will be truly unprecedented. Indeed it needs to be.
I think the huge saving on wages will be telling. if we get rid of the 8 out of contract plus a couple of sales we are talking a million a week to the good. we should use that to entice the very best replacements not as many just better players. so yes 300m is very doable.
Agree with this 100%. Failure to get the very best only ends up costing you more in future windows anyway.
most managers get their biggest budgets in their first year, but even so we are still restricted by ffp on wages.
While true, losing players like Yaya Toure (£250,000 a week) will untie our hands considerably in this department. It mustn't be underestimated how City have struggled with the elephant contracts that many of our aging stars, largely from the Mancini era, were signed to with reckless abandon.