We broke the back of a lot of it last summer though. It looks like Bolasie is doing ok in Belgium so a decent chance he gets shifted. The 3 young lads (Lookman, Vlasic, Onyekuru) should bring in approaching £100 million (or could be useful first team additions). We then have players like Jagielka, Baines, Williams who are out of contract. There are a couple who will be more difficult to shift, namely Mirallas and Sandro, certainly with Sandro he will likely have another pre-season and we have to wait and see on him.
You have undoubtedly got an issue then with players such as Tosun/Walcott/Schneiderlin though I think it's important we don't go overboard on them. If they have to remain as squad players they can probably be quite effective in the short term. I do think we may get a buyer for them, particularly Schneiderlin who has looked better recently.
Players are improving within the squad, if we can focus on adding 3-4 players this window who all make a difference that will be brilliant.
100m for vlasic, lookman and onyekuru, put the bottle down lad.
The loans out were shocking yet again last summer.
Bolasie cancelled his own loan at villa and then went to Anderlecht with them paying only a percentage of his wages.
Mirallas was sent to fiorentina with no obligation to buy, after what happened with olympiakos it's absolutely shocking
Zouma and jags leaving at the end of the season meaning someone else needs to be signed. Mina, Keane holgate is no where near good enough for a full season.
A back up lb to replace baines and not just promote a youth player, there can't be a massive drop in quality if digne is injured.
Buying gomes (EST 25m), and a zouma/jags replacement (EST 10m), your looking at 35m just to stand still.
Then walcott who is 30 and Schneiderlin who is 30 this year, on massive wages, your hoping bottom half teams come in for them but due to their wages unlikely.
The comments coming from brands and the club signals cheaper unproven players hoping they come good, a method adopted by moyes.