bongleblade
Well-Known Member
As we all know, we haven't got a barrel of money... and we haven't got much chance of stopping up without serious investment in the playing squad
But this got me thinking... in this modern era of paying for your loaf of bread on Klarna (small personal credit loans for you older folks) ... could we get our PL team together on credit so to speak?
Let's say our transfer spend is limited at 15m ... could this be spent on wages for players on 4x 1 year loans (limited by PL) with some options to buy and 1 year free transfers thrown in?
Estimating wages for 1 year, we could probably go for the likes of:
LCB - Paul Dummett - £1.5m Free Transfer
CB - Reece Oxford - £2m - loan option to buy (Augsburg)
LWB/RWB - Matt Ritchie - £1.5m Free Transfer
CM - Doyle - £2m - loan option to buy (Man City)
CM - Choudhury £2m - loan (Leicester)
ST - Sorloth - £3m - loan option to buy (RB Leipzig)
ST - Pukki - £1.5m - Free transfer
This strategy gives us a good value PL squad (15m), and while there's risks of losing a core of players if relegated, it also gives us a good chance of keeping them if we stay up... and if we go for players similar to the likes of Pukki, Dummett, Chodhury and Ritchie, it's not unrealistic to expect them to stick around if we did go back down to the championship
But this got me thinking... in this modern era of paying for your loaf of bread on Klarna (small personal credit loans for you older folks) ... could we get our PL team together on credit so to speak?
Let's say our transfer spend is limited at 15m ... could this be spent on wages for players on 4x 1 year loans (limited by PL) with some options to buy and 1 year free transfers thrown in?
Estimating wages for 1 year, we could probably go for the likes of:
LCB - Paul Dummett - £1.5m Free Transfer
CB - Reece Oxford - £2m - loan option to buy (Augsburg)
LWB/RWB - Matt Ritchie - £1.5m Free Transfer
CM - Doyle - £2m - loan option to buy (Man City)
CM - Choudhury £2m - loan (Leicester)
ST - Sorloth - £3m - loan option to buy (RB Leipzig)
ST - Pukki - £1.5m - Free transfer
This strategy gives us a good value PL squad (15m), and while there's risks of losing a core of players if relegated, it also gives us a good chance of keeping them if we stay up... and if we go for players similar to the likes of Pukki, Dummett, Chodhury and Ritchie, it's not unrealistic to expect them to stick around if we did go back down to the championship