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Total click bate, however the last quarters finances of the 22/23 season are supposed to be released on Monday I believe, so we might start hearing something concrete concerning the takeover next week.
There must be some dialogue going on with SJ/92 and The Raine Group with the Qatari group saying we wanted to buy a champions league club and this current team will not even be playing in Europe, so we need a decision quickly or we move on to other options, and that would leave INEOS to pick up the slack.
If they really are in very advanced talks and doing due diligence, they will want the opportunity to attack the winter transfer window to at least try and get European Football next summer whether it’s Conference or Europa League.
We sold £48m worth of players with £40m being homegrown players which would have increased our transfer budget potentially to £200m giving us about £325m to £350m overall. We spent £185m so without further sales the club if it had the money could potentially spend £165m in January before other exits.
If we sell Jadon Sancho, Harry Maguire and Scott Mctominay for £100m which won’t be easy let’s say £80m, selling Scott for £25m will give us another £125m as he counts as HG added to the budget providing the club has paid off its existing £800m debt.
INEOS will be spending no more than £100m in January I can assure of that however if SJ actually did win the bid, they could potentially providing they invest money to clear the debt, have a £250-280m transfer budget in a January window.
They would be allowed under FFP providing they sold those three players.
I can assure you of one thing the Qatari consortium led by SJ would have done their due diligence not only on the clubs finances but also the playing squad and the Directors/Team manager running the club and will have their own list of targets. ETH will be told to manage the players they buy and if he can’t produce a wining side he’ll be dismissed and they will go recruit either Xavi, Zidane or De Zerbie, they simply won’t care.
The poorer the performances become on the pitch, the more likely the Qatari consortium planning an assault on the transfer market to hit he ground running.
They won’t go for maybe players, they will have a list of sure things in all positions sone experienced, some younger.
GK - Jan Oblak
RB - J Frimpong
LB - T Hernandez
CB - A Silva
CM/10 -N Barella, L Lucas
RW - A Griezmann, L Sane, F Chiesa
LW - R Laeo S Gnabry
Striker - V Osimhen or I Toney + M Leornado
They may even sell Rashford to PSG for £100m and let Martial go to Barcelona I’m. Not saying they will get all of that list but they will try and make 3 or 4 marquee signings in the key areas that the team has genuine fragility.
Those three managers are not a sure thing in my opinion. I would want them to give Ten Hag longer to clear out more players and establish so e of the current youth players.
I would like a new owner to reinvigorate the workforce in all departments of the club because it is clearly on a downward spiral. The options for right wing are terrible, the latter is decent but very injury prone. Your striker suggestions are good, but I would like them to explore the possibility of bringing Greenwood back if the right steps are taken.
The Milan keeper would be good instead of Oblak.
I don't know what the he'll is going to happen.