One of the reasons that we have financial constraints is that we have overspent in the last few years both in terms of fees paid for players and the wages we have paid them. we did not have the income to buy £30 million players and pay wages in excess of 100k pw particularly when at least one of our high earners is not earning his wages with his performances. I accept that TV revenue has gone up considerably but because of these past expenses we still can not spend recklessly

The result of this was we had to sell AWB to have some financial freedom. The fact we have sold him now means we do not have to sell wilf unless we get the right offer.

I think if a buyer came in offering a fair price for Benteke or Sakho we would look at taking it. Obviously they would have to want to move.

We need to stregthen the squad overall but also need to balance the books. We have cut our wage bill with the release of some fringe players however until we see who arrives and their wages the amount of spare money is unknown. I suspect Luka's contract extension has been discussed and an offer probably made. He may have accepted we do not know remember Jimmy Mac last year.

The expansion of the ground will probably happen at some point and if it does we would get more income and obviously that will help. However SP was more interested in creating a singing section than sorting out the ground planing application

Wow, what a naive post. We’re not a mid table team. We spend 33 games in the bottom 4-6. We pick up more points vs teams in flip flops at end of the season.

How many players have jumped to join us in recent summers then? Or have we all imagined West Ham and whoever else nicking our targets, hence why we keep a close shop.

You’re leaving the possibility of Luka leaving for nothing, after you sad lyrical about how players are falling over themselves to join us. Not only is it illogical but if we were that well run we would get and have everything in order to encourage him to stay. It’s also bad business.

Finally you don’t seem to understand that free agents can negotiate higher wages because they’re, erm, free, with no transfer fee cost.

I hope this is clearer... We miss Sakho because the others are noticeably inferior. We could do with a cheaper alternative who isn’t any of our current CB’s. I can’t believe I’ve had to clarify that.

I agree we’d miss Sakho more than AWB, and that we’d struggle to buy a better alternative, but an alternative we’d have to find who is nearly as good, or a partnership that is as or more productive than Sakho plus any of the other 3.

We also have the wage bill issues and Sakho is on £100k. We should’ve been looking at alternatives anyway because even if you or anyone CPFC doesn’t like it, there’s rumours Sakho wants to return to France. Hopefully we have some idea how we’ll deal with that when it happens. He won’t be signing an extension I’d have thought with intentions to return to France so this must be dealt with. Here’s hoping.

We haven't signed Ayew yet; he's still at Swansea.

Wow, what a naive post. We’re not a mid table team. We spend 33 games in the bottom 4-6. We pick up more points vs teams in flip flops at end of the season.

How many players have jumped to join us in recent summers then? Or have we all imagined West Ham and whoever else nicking our targets, hence why we keep a close shop.

You’re leaving the possibility of Luka leaving for nothing, after you sad lyrical about how players are falling over themselves to join us. Not only is it illogical but if we were that well run we would get and have everything in order to encourage him to stay. It’s also bad business.

Finally you don’t seem to understand that free agents can negotiate higher wages because they’re, erm, free, with no transfer fee cost.

If we have reached 40 points,then our players could be expected to be on the beach as well. How do you explain the last game of the season, if we lost the opponents would of gone above us.
Some don't seem to realise that running/managing a Premier team isn't easy. As generally accepted there are a top 6, mid table and lower 6. Each have struggles, at Man Utd where money is no object, they are struggling to revive last success.
A bit of realism is sometimes required,as always the main objective is to remain in the Premier,otherwise the fallout we see us in the Championship for years.