Qwiss! wrote:
goon wrote:
£85m on one player is cheaper than spending 70-80m on 5 (like we did with Chambers, Debuchy, Ospina, Welbeck and Gabriel), and that's ignoring other factors like resale value and the commercial benefit.
As others have said, I think Gazidis will be keen to have a big summer. Remember the sepnding spree after the 8-2 debacle? I doubt our capability of making it happen rather than our will.
I don't think that is how the club look at it at all though. They like to spread their risk.
And yes look at the post 8-2 spend, a lot of transfers but all very modest. I think we're much more likely to see 2 or 3 £30-£50m players brought in than Mbappe. And a lot will depend on who leaves.
Agreed - it's a core component of their transfer strategy to supposedly minimise the risk if a player either doesn't work out of breaks down injured.
They'd rather risk 10m on 3 players than 30m on one as they are essentially risk adverse & do nothing on speculation.
I recall reading something about transfer rumour strategies & that less than a third of all rumours are genuine, a fair whack is nothing more than the rags putting 1+1 = 5, others are to drive a player's value higher by instigating a bidding war (by his own club or a rival looking to inflate the price paid by a rival), there are those intending to unsettle a player at a rival team, and finally false interest in a player to draw attention away from the actual target.
Based on AW's history I'd say that best effort would be the latter option. We know we won't spend market value on the likes of Mbappe or even Lacazette, so we go with a story re one or other hoping that the big spenders will look to get in early, and then we go for someone else like Bellotti or Silva at Porto.
