It looks (to me) like this is muck or nettles time for the project's initial phase.
Let me explain, recent reports suggest that our owners told MH around the Jan. window not to worry about not getting Parker and Toure as" were not going to go down" the message seemed to be, OK youv'e got good foundations with Given, De Jong etc onboard, let's keep our powder dry until the Summer window and then go for it.
Now then, to me "go for it" from our owners is not a small statement, I read into this, and judging by the realisation of sales of banking shares (huge amount) that our backers are lobbing a big sum into the pot, I reckon, conservatively around £250-300M (not just for transfers, but including incremental wages)
So far we spent £12M, it looks like a further 50 for Tevez and Eto', the perhaps Lescott at 12, Toure at 10 RSC at 18, G Johnson at 15 and say another 20 fora couple of "b" listers, that adds up to £87M,
If this were fact, or even near, there would still be way over £100M in the pot
Who are the "a" listers that we could bring in with this amount?
Our owners are very serious people, they will not entertain being second best, OK they seem patient, keeping Hughes is eveidence of this, but they ALWAYS ALWAYS get what they want eventually
