Sensible business thus far. We’ve basically just ensured that we’ll have a couple of actual footballers on the bench who might do something half useful if we get injuries rather than having 2 keepers on there.
Tough job on now to undo the mistakes of the past. Looking at the weekly wages out;
Walcott - £110k
Bolasie - £75k
Pennington - £20k
Besic - £30k
King - £45k
Olsen - £20k
Total - £300k per week already saved from players who contributed zero.
A conservative guess would be that the three new lads are on a combined £150k p/w, still leaving us £150k p/w up.
Now we know the club want rid of Delph (£80k), Bernard (£120k), Kenny (15k), Tosun (£65k), and would also happily get rid of Gomes (£115k) and James (£90k-£140k depending on which source you believe). If we did flog them all, that’s a minimum of £485k p/w saved on top of what we’ve already saved. Only about 3 of them would need replacing.