Which players would we be shifting now?
Gomes -- Portugal
Tosun (injury permitting) --Turkey.
Keane -- Russia/Siberia
Richarlison was never leaving and we were still in for Diaz mate
So it would probably have been done against the future sale of Richarlison or Dom, and getting James off the books.
I think Diaz was £20mil+ James then £25mil + James and finally €30mil+James.
If the money was truly there then we should have switched targets to players that were attainable. For example, Emerson who has gone to Spurs, Moriba whose ended up at Leipzig etc etc...theres a few.
Different positions, but players that would have improved us.
I’d imagine we would have paid the asking price for Diaz if PSG had moved for Richy. Does seem we had some (but not loads of) money available for the right player but nothing materialised.
Could be a bit of a merry go round next summer although Richarlison will have to have a good season to get his big move to a CL team.
There are a few quality players out of contract next summer:
Insigne, Brozovic, Kamara, Zakaria etc
This overview shows all players whose contracts expire in the upcoming summer, sorted by their current market value.
www.transfermarkt.com
With our outgoing players next year being on big wages (Tosun, Delph, Sigurdsson, James, Kenny, Begovic, Lonergan) we should be able to clear off £450-500k there.
If in January we were able to sign a precontract agreement for Kamara (Marseille) for example then it puts a young £30-40mil level player on our books while using the wages saved.
Thats the sensible approach, if Brands wants to work in January...