£20m up front with £5m in add-ons seems fair.
then we've spent £31m on two players in a position of need. figure we can get £6m for ospina and podolski. that means we're at a net of about £25m.
last season (counting january) this was our ledger:
in
alexis - £30m
debuchy - £12m
opsina - £3
chambers - £16m
welbeck - £16m
bielik - £2m
gabriel - £11m
total: £90m
out
djourou - £2.5m
vermaelen - £15m
miquel - £1.5m
total: £19m
other payments:
vela - £12m
cesc - £5.6m
total: £17.6m
debits: £90m
credits: £36.6m
net: £53.4m
that isn't exact, obviously, because im sure some of those fees were slightly higher/lower, and i think we probably made small amounts from a few others i didnt bother listing. point being, we spent about £53m last summer/january.
that would mean, assuming we don't spend more than last summer, we'd have about £30m to spend assuming we sell no one else. can we get reus for £30m?
