Define "within reason"
Because I think people's definition of "reasonable" differs wildly on this forum depending on who you ask
Well if we look at the centre backs only we have:
Mina
Zouma (loan)
Keane
Jagielka (contract up end of season)
Holgate (on loan)
Pennington (on loan)
Browning (contract up end of season)
Feeney / Gibson (u23s)
What would be 'realistic' in terms of turning this into a very strong selection of 4 centre backs?
So, for me i would say we need 3 centre backs who are all competing with one another.
I'd say Mina would be one of them (obviously as we just signed him) and we would need to sign 2 more with one of the young players either Holgate, Feeney or Gibson perhaps as 4th choice in case of emergencies.
We then have
1 -- Mina
2 --
3 --
4 -- Holgate/Feeney/Gibson
Out: Keane/Zouma/Jags/Pennington/Browning
The weekly wages there would perhaps be around;
Keane £60k
Jags £50k
Pennington £10k
Browning £5k
So perhaps £125k a week which would cover 2 new centre backs wages + sales fees of perhaps £20-25mil from Keane and Pennington.
That amount would to towards 1 new centre back and we would need to find the money for a second.
I was asking
@BlueToff who he would go for / keep...