Nothing would surprise me at this stage .

Even if Clinton is right and we've got £65m to spend (presumably without Zaha being sold), it's not a lot of money in this league.

That much could add up to three Eze-standard players (of varying positions) and a Tomkins/Koyate standard good value player. That kind of summer would be brilliant, but as ever we would need every single new signing to perform (so no Sorloths, Meyers etc), would still need two loans, and would still have space for at least one youth player to step up.

It's a lot of money in the real world, but it won't get you many good Premier league players, even now, and we need half a dozen. It's not impossible, but it's certainly not the sort of money that'll transform the team, even if the figures are true.

Loans are fine, but every one you use reduces the overall value of your squad whilst increasing the value of someone else's (presuming the player does well). Given one of our problems is the lack of sellable value in the squad, I'd say loans are a necessary evil at best.

We'll perhaps agree to disagree about Sorloth and Meyer. I think they were given plenty of chances but were crap. Happy for either to prove otherwise but it hasn't happened yet.

A 65 mil transfer kitty is not to be sniffed at in the
current climate - we could get Lundstrom for nothing, spend 25 on Brooks, that's 40 mil left to replace PVA, we only need one more central defender, if Ferguson is not another Wickham we might not need another right back, Clyne can play on either side if we decide to re-sign him, we might not need to spend a penny to get some of the players we need, and we'd still have enough to splash out where we need to. The AWB money went on debt and wages, be interesting to see how many won't be getting their contracts renewed on the basis that Parrish doesn't want to make the same mistake twice, i.e. not maintaining the squad and reinvesting when it was necessary.

Wouldn't disagree with what you say, but the players you list won't change us from a lower mid table side into something else. It could quite easily take £65m just to keep the side as good as it has generally been in recent years - i.e one that doesn't fight relegation to the last week of the season every year.

Don't forget, we spent about £55m on Sakho and Benteke alone. It doesn't go far.

Spurs don’t have have the oldest squad in the league with half the team out of contract. Spurs as one of the top 6 can take their pick of managers to a great extent.

I don’t think it’s a relevant comparison.

Parish has known for months before the season ended that he needed a new manager....plenty of time to carry out weeks of due diligence on the options.

By delaying we now have competition from a number of other clubs.

Edited by BelfastEagle (03 Jun 2021 8.43pm)