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Big Fat Sam
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They're selling (if they do) a great player but if you look at it as selling maximum 20 goals a season and 10 assists then he's easily replaceable with that money.
Soldado 25m (there's your 20 goals a season striker), and there is still 50m in the pot to fix other areas of the squad.
They'll come out of it a better squad than Arsenal, which means almost certainly challenging for the title on a regular basis, all on the back of striking lucky with one expensive youngster a few years ago.
They also have loads of players who'll probably leave thus adding more money to the pot... Parker, Adebayor, Huddlestone... there's another 15m there and over 100k a week off the wages... Gomes, Dawson, perhaps also Dempsey and Defoe. Another 15m and 150k a week off the wages.
I think Spurs will be a massive step ahead of us going into the new season, which means the best we can aim for is now 5th. Shame.
Which of our fringe players could we sell a lá Spurs and generate millions for the transfer pot? We'd get 50p a piece of the likes of Hibbert, Naismith and Vellios.
One saving grace for me when I think about Everton is that we've got the two best (imo) wing backs in the league, one of the best centre backs (on his day, when he isn't playing tiki taka football and passing it to the opposition) and also Fellaini who can be unstoppable. Mirallas is in his second season so will be better, Jelavic (finger's crossed) may be revitalised under Martinez and Kone has to be a better option than Anichebe. Then there is the kid from Barca who may or may not be ace, and Gibson who when fit is brilliant. Let's hope our better players can make up for the weaknesses in the squad and once again punch about their weight in the league.
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