If he's half as good as you think he could be it will certainly soften the blow if/when Bale leaves a year from now.
Or maybe if we make CL (or even better than that hopefully), Bale sees our ambition and stays with us instead of moving to the Madrid ****s. Either way we should make sure we sign the quality players we need this summer, because then if we make CL the additional money will help us pay off those signings without losing Bale, and if we don't make CL then we probably lose Bale but we have the quality in the team to carry on and sign replacements (one of whom would be Halilovic I'm guessing).
I was under the impression we get it next summer. But every EPL club is guaranteed an extra 30m. That's guaranteed money. So, perhaps Levy is viewing it as money in hand? I don't know.
That was my impression too, still we can't exactly pay transfer fees unless we have the cash to do so (or we have to borrow it). I'm sure we have a significant amount of money in the bank as well but I'm not sure it's enough to fund 7 new signings as per BEN's info. The 2 Croatians and Paulinho puts us at 37 million spent already, maybe though we won't be paying the transfer fees for the Croatians until they actually arrive. Villa would be another 10 million, I don't see where we get the money to sign 3 other players as well.
All good and still recovering from having my twitter acct hacked a few weeks ago.....
Paulinho 17m
Villa 10m
Hallelujah and the Tin Man 5m (20m spread over 4 windows)
Starter (Wing Forward or LB) 12m
Young Prospect 5m
Deadline day signing 7m
Total spend: 56m
TV money: 30m
Sales: 15m
Net spend: 11m
Is an 11m investment to keep Bale and AVB that ridiculous?
I think the big difference is Harry didn't care who he got. - no urgency. Whereas AVB needs all the players in the system day 1, hence the pressure on DL to do a deal. I think DL saw how much we missed the gelling and points being lost, ESP playing high up...Pretty positive signs so far that AVB is going to get significant backing from Levy this year. Paulinho, Villa, Halilovic and Jedvaj pretty close to being tied up his a huge statement of intent considering it is only July 1st. Whether we'll spend more or not I don't know but I can see us being interested in a wide forward, a left back and maybe another striker too. Exciting times.
Paulinho 17m
Villa 10m
Hallelujah and the Tin Man 5m (20m spread over 4 windows)
Starter (Wing Forward or LB) 12m
Young Prospect 5m
Deadline day signing 7m
Total spend: 56m
TV money: 30m
Sales: 15m
Net spend: 11m
Is an 11m investment to keep Bale and AVB that ridiculous?
I've got one eye on my FIFA game and my other on some porn, so I'm not really thinking straight at the moment. Because of that can someone explain the Tin Man nickname please?