£85m summer spending spree may be on cards
ClaretandHugh has done the sums and with £45 million consistently made available another £40 million could and perhaps should be added to Slaven Bilic’s budget.
The club saved £20m by not signing Simone Zaza in a deal they were obliged to pay if he reached a certain number of appearances.
And they also have a balance of £7m left from the sale of Dimitri Payet for £25m after spending £10m on Snodgrass and £8m on Fonte in the January transfer window.
And were they to receive £13m for Enner Valencia from Everton over the summer this will give them an extra £40m on top of their normal £45m budget.
Supporters will be disappointed if the board and manager spend the summer chasing free transfers, expensive loan deals and sub-standard players.
If we truly want to move on to the next level we need to spend big and spend well – the sums appear to add up!