ddb wrote:Lallana to Pool for 25m seems like an amazing deal for the saints.
For United we still need another 2 players at least. CB and a midfielder or winger. Good signs so far. Finally spending the money we need to.
Were it not for the 25% sell-on clause to Bournemouth, then I would agree. But c£18.75m (which is what we are actually left with) is only sort of par in my book.
It's just so important now that we get our transfers right. It was already rumoured that we had a transfer kitty of c£30m to spend this summer (which wouldn't be unreasonable, as we've spent that on each of the last two Summer transfer windows too). And Lambert, Shaw and Lallana will bring us c£50m. So a potential £80m for us to spend this summer, which for a club like us is simply scary.
But as Spurs showed 12 months ago, having £80m to spend is of little use if you don't use it to sign the right players. Especially when you need to use it to replace a valuable component (or components in our case) of your team.
Get it right though, and we could overtake Everton and Spurs over the next year or two.