'Reports' of an initial 59m fee being agreed with plenty of add ons over his contract. Not sure how I feel about these kinds of players coming into the premier league and us making no attempt whatsoever to get any of them.
I understand Jürgen when he says he won't stockpile players. But I don't understand this (it might just be me) scenario where we seem reluctant to have the same quality on the bench as to what's in the team. Instead we seem happier to have players who are inferior, on less money and happy to sit on the bench. When someone goes down it always seems to be square pegs in round holes.
So for example bobby goes down, we dont just replace him, we have to move salah as well, or mane through the middle, and move AOC out of midfield and into the front 3 etc.
So I understand we cant have 26 players all on big bux. But I'd like to gave genuine quality on the bench so we are not weakened when we make changes, whether they cost 60m+ or less is irrelevant to me.
So I trust Jürgen to find genuine works class players, on one of the lowest budgets in the league ... he will have to. Robbo is proof it can be done.
I think he needs to make decisions on Wilson, origi, brewster etc as it's now or never for these lads.
I've accepted we are skint along time ago. But we have the best manager in the business, and all the trophies that matter so it's all good.
But we cant still this summer, we have to improve and if that means letting 5 or 6 go and bringing in 2 world class players, making us leaner and meaner then so be it. Our rivals are going to go big this summer.
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