What your saying is true but is too heavily weighted to the purely financial aspects. Losing Lukaku would be a major blow and would compromise our progress going into next season. There are no comparable goal scorers who would be available to us in the PL. Would it not make more sense for us to bring in someone like Larin ,as an example, and allow him a season to come up to speed in the PL whilst retaining Lukaku for the extra season.? This would allow us to maintain our progress. Otherwise we would have to scrabble round for a lower quality striker and/or change our style of play entirely.
After all whilst the financial side is undoubtedly important, what happens on the pitch is what it's all about,surely?
That's if we are genuinely ambitious of course.
In an ideal world I would agree but the time lines in terms of delivering that ambition are some way off and with the constraints of FFP both versions it's at what point that delivery is even feasible. Unfortunately finances will determine what happens on the pitch.
Admittedly I haven't done a deep dive into the accounts and the implications of the investment to date but how much room is there to do an awful lot more till commercial and or gate receipts grow?bearing in mind the PL self imposed wage cap?
Let's face it for whatever reasons the last two transfer window spends have been mostly financed by the sale of JS any real investment to date has done no more than pay of long term debt and The FF sponsorship probably just about paid off the sums involved in the change on manager and the new shirt deal will still be nowhere near the top 4-5 clubs.