Dont get the wouldnt pay £100m would pay £70m type comments. Its £30m difference for a 15year career and if the player reaches the potential the money would pretty much if not more be recouped in 5/6years.
The spend in a position shouldnt be a huge factor either, the cost or position player is in should be irrelevant...it is more a case of is this the right player, for the right position with the right character that progresses us.
The Rice and Grealish threads were very similar when we were linked. Rice was supposedly no better than McTominay and not worth half the money he would cost and Grealish wouldnt even get a game here....absolute nonsense at the time and very apparent now. We spent what was it £60/70m for a 30year old midfielder and appear to have got months out of it, Arsenal have got a player for the next decade barrign injuries.
Barely seen Neves to say whether he is that player, but personally I think we need three top signings minimum and at least that number in the gamble type of signings, so why would Neves not be one of them, I think RCB and DCM are probably the two areas with Varane and Casemeiros age and injury woes and fall from grace with the latter we can most improve and need to most.
For me there are only two £50m+ signings I would love to see and neither are going to happen. One would be Viniscus if Mbappe goes to Madrid and we offload Rashford to PSG, the other which I doubt many woudl agree with would be selling Fernandes, buying Eze to replace him. So a top top cb and cm maybe should be the big money and a lot of the potential options at CB seem to be in Portugal too
