Name four players you think we'll buy in the summer

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Jose's previous transfer signings


Chelsea – 2004-05

Paulo Ferreira (Porto) – £13.2m

Mateja Kezman (PSV Eindhoven) – £5.5m

Didier Drogba (Marseille) - £24m

Tiago (Benfica) – £10m

Ricardo Carvalho (Porto) – £19.8m

Alex (PSV Eindhoven) – £5.7m

Nuno Morais (Penafiel) – free

Jiri Jarosik (CSKA Moscow) – £3m

Total: £81.2m


Chelsea – 2005-06

Asier del Horno (Athletic Bilbao) – £8m

Lassana Diarra (Le Havre) – £2m

Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City) – £24m

Michael Essien (Lyon) – £24.4m

Total: £58.4m


Chelsea – 2006-07

Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich) – free

Salomon Kalou (Feyenoord) – £3m

Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) – £30m

John Obi Mikel (Lyn Oslo) – £16m

Khalid Boulahrouz (Hamburg) – £9m

Ashley Cole (Arsenal) - £5m + William Gallas

Total: £63m


Chelsea – 2007-08

Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich) – free

Tal Ben Haim (Bolton Wanderers) – free

Steve Sidwell (Reading) – free

Florent Malouda (Lyon) – £13.5m

Juliano Belletti (Barcelona) – £3.7m

Total: £17.2m

Chelsea first spell total: £219.8m


Inter Milan – 2008-09

Hernan Crespo (Chelsea) – free

Mancini (Roma) – £10.3m

Luis Jimenez (Ternana) – £4.7m

Sulley Muntari (Portsmouth) – £12.7m

Ricardo Quaresma (Porto) – £14.7m + Pele

Victor Obinna (Chievo) – free

Total: £42.4m


Inter Milan – 2009-10

Diego Milito (Genoa) – £11.6m + Robert Acquafresca + Riccardo Meggiorini

Thiago Motta (Genoa) – £3.6m + Francesco Bozoni + Leonardo Bonucci

Kerlon (Chievo) – free

Lucio (Bayern Munich) – £6.8m

Samuel Eto’o (Barcelona) – £17.2m (transfer included Zlatan Ibrahimovic moving to Barcelona)

Wesley Sneijder (Real Madrid) – £15.5m

Goran Pandev (Lazio) – free

McDonald Mariga (Parma) – £4.3m

Total: £59m

Inter Milan spell total: £101.4m



Real Madrid – 2010-11

Sergio Canales (Racing Santander) – £3.8m

Angel Di Maria (Benfica) – £20.9m

Pedro Leon (Getafe) – £8.4m

Sami Khedira (Stuttgart) – £10m

Ricardo Carvalho (Chelsea) – £6.7m

Mesut Ozil (Werder Bremen) – £12.5m

Total: £62.3m


Real Madrid – 2011-12

Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund) – £8.8m

Hamit Altintop (Bayern Munich) – free

Jose Callejon (Espanyol) – £4.4m

Raphael Varane (Lens) – £8.8m

Fabio Coentrao (Benfica) – £26.5m

Total: £48.5m


Real Madrid – 2012-13

Luka Modric (Tottenham) – £33m

Diego Lopez (Sevilla) – £3.2m

Total: £36.2m

Real Madrid spell total: £147m


Chelsea – 2013-14

Andre Schurrle (Bayern Leverkusen) – £18m

Marco van Ginkel (Vitesse) – £9m

Mark Schwarzer (Fulham) – free

Willian (Anzhi Makhachkala) – £30m

Samuel Eto’o (Anzhi Makhachkala) – free

Kurt Zouma (St Etienne) – £12m

Mo Salah (Basle) – £11m

Total: £80m


Chelsea – 2014-15

Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona) – £30m

Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid) – £35m

Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid) – £16m

Didier Drogba (Galatasaray) – free

Loic Remy (Queens Park Rangers) – £8m

Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina) – £27m

Total: £116m


Chelsea – 2015-16

Asmir Begovic (Stoke City) – £8m

Baba Rahman (Augsburg) – £21.7m

Pedro (Barcelona) – £21m

Kenedy (Fluminense) – £6.7m

Papy Djilobodji (Nantes) – £2.2m

Michael Hector (Reading) – £4m

Marco Amelia (free agent) – free

Total: £63.6m

Chelsea second spell total: £259.6m


Manchester United 2016-17

Eric Bailly (Villarreal) – £30m

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain) – free

Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) – £26m

Paul Pogba (Juventus) – £100m

Total: £156m


Overall total: £883.8m
 
Griezmann
Dier
Perisic
Michael Keane

We would probably win a big trophy (PL or CL) with these additions to our squad - Yes, I am serious. Griezmann would add a lot of quality to our attack, playing as a second striker behind Rashford. Michael Keane would suit Bailly very well as he has the qualities to cover up behind him when he break out of the defensive line to make his crazy tackles. Keane is very good in the air, decent with the ball in is feet, and usually solves his defensive duties in the easiest possible way, without having to throw himself into last second tackles. Give him playing time with Mourinho as a coach, and you will see him turning into a brilliant centre back. As for Dier and Perisic, I have posted my thoughts on why they would be perfect signings for us in the Perisic thread:

Wallez said:
Please don't get angry because we are linked to players like Perisic and Dier. I can see your point about them not having the biggest names like Fabinho or Alexis Sanches, and I agree that the individual abilities of the latter players are superior to Perisic and Dier. However, I think what we need these hard working team players in order to free up some of the brilliant individuals we have at the club already. Alexis Sanches will for sure perform better than Perisic in terms of goals scored, but if the defensive work from Perisic means that we let in fewer goals and that Luke Shaw is brought back into the team with offensive freedom, I think the team as a unit will be better off with Perisic. Same thing about Dier, he could do the dirty work as Pogba is given more offensive freedom, and would probably make Mourinho comfortable about playing with a very offensive nr. 10 (Griezmann?) instead of someone that primarily has to track back. Against the top teams we would probably line up in a 433 with Dier as DM and a front trio of Perisic, Griezmann and Mkhitaryan, and I can see us going all the way in the CL with that lineup.

To sum it up: we should bring in Perisic and Dier to make a super solid team, and bring in Griezmann to give us individual brilliance offensively. Having a solid structure would certainly help players like Shaw, Martial, Rashford and Mkhitaryan perform at their best level.
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Get the best out of Shaw, Pogba, Mkhitaryan and Rashford. De Gea, Valencia, Herrera are all rock solid. Mourinho has had a year to identify the type of players he needs in order to turn our squad into champions, and I thrust him completely if he thinks that these four signings is what we need.

In most of our games I expect us to line up in a 4231 like this:
De Gea
Valencia - Bailly - Keane - Shaw
Herrera - Pogba
Mkhitaryan - Griezmann - Perisic
Rashford

And in the biggest teams we would probably look defensively solid in a 433:
De Gea
Valencia - Bailly - Keane - Shaw
Dier
Herrera - Pogba
Mkhitaryan - Griezmann - Perisic
 
Von Mistelroum said:
So you'd say that we have a squad which is as close to City for challenging for the title next season? If we go against them for players this year, they'll win 4 times out of 5 and Chelsea will too. It make me sick because I really think that players should view the club as I do, but they're usually not looking at it that way.

I'd say that there are a few clubs in front of us in the pecking order now, so we need to either move quickly or look at backups.
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Do not agree with this at all. We have a very good squad, and City finished behind Spurs just like us. My verdict to Pep's first season is okay, while Mou's is decent. City had much more settled squad than ours when Pep arrived, while Jose took a team which was well and truly shaken. Mou's team won a couple of trophies, Guardiola's zilch. Mou's reputation is at least as good as Pep's is. So no difference between the two teams for me. Personally, if the same results (as this season) were to be repeated each season, I would have taken Mou's over Guardiola's.
 
Hernandez 15m
Greizmann 85m
Willian 40m
Fabinho 30m
Gimenez 25m
Mendy 30m

£225m total. Muppet silly season. YOLO.

This would leave us in a position to challenge on all fronts immediately and simply sign 2/3 players in the following summer.

Shaw, Smalling/Jones, Carrick, Rooney, Ibrahimovic, Martial could also be sold/released to free up big wages. Only thing is that it leaves us with less English players which needs to be addressed.
 
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Sparky Rhiwabon said:
From the transfer tweets thread.

Based on media rumours re the four players on Jose's list he's given to Woody.

Keane
Dier
Perisic
Griezeman

Say he gets all four, how would people feel about that as a summer's business?
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I wouldn't mind Perisic at the right price. €35m is a fair price. Inter are just being stupid by demanding too much, I hope we back away and leave it at that if they won't accept €35m.

Signing Griezmann, Perisic and a top striker would help out attack. Whilst Persisic isn't the biggest name, he could become one of Mourinho's main men to rely on. Provided he gets goals and assists, I'm all for it.

Dier and Keane however, whilst I was advocating it before, I'm not so sure now. My reasoning for Keane was who else can we realistically get? Van Dijk at £50m? Is he better than what we have though? To have Keane come in and replace someone like Smalling, I'd say it's a good bit of business.

Dier, well isn't Fabinho a better player? However, I'm starting to prefer Herrera as the holding midfielder and I'd like a box to box midfielder who can occasionaply fill in in the holding role when required.

I would also be annoyed if City sign Fabinho, Mendy and Silva. I think we need the former two. Mendy especially, I can't trust Shaw to come good all of a sudden. He also only has one year left on his contract. Mendy can attack, and it'll help add variety to our attack, when he leaves attacks, Valencia stays and visa versa.

Currently, we've been linked with a CB, Perisic, Mendy, Griezmann, Dier (previously) and a striker. Maybe that Phil De Brun guy was onto something when he said Mourinho wants closer to 6 rather than 4 players.
 
MrSingh2002 said:
Jose's previous transfer signings


Chelsea – 2004-05

Paulo Ferreira (Porto) – £13.2m

Mateja Kezman (PSV Eindhoven) – £5.5m

Didier Drogba (Marseille) - £24m

Tiago (Benfica) – £10m

Ricardo Carvalho (Porto) – £19.8m

Alex (PSV Eindhoven) – £5.7m

Nuno Morais (Penafiel) – free

Jiri Jarosik (CSKA Moscow) – £3m

Total: £81.2m


Chelsea – 2005-06

Asier del Horno (Athletic Bilbao) – £8m

Lassana Diarra (Le Havre) – £2m

Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City) – £24m

Michael Essien (Lyon) – £24.4m

Total: £58.4m


Chelsea – 2006-07

Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich) – free

Salomon Kalou (Feyenoord) – £3m

Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) – £30m

John Obi Mikel (Lyn Oslo) – £16m

Khalid Boulahrouz (Hamburg) – £9m

Ashley Cole (Arsenal) - £5m + William Gallas

Total: £63m


Chelsea – 2007-08

Claudio Pizarro (Bayern Munich) – free

Tal Ben Haim (Bolton Wanderers) – free

Steve Sidwell (Reading) – free

Florent Malouda (Lyon) – £13.5m

Juliano Belletti (Barcelona) – £3.7m

Total: £17.2m

Chelsea first spell total: £219.8m


Inter Milan – 2008-09

Hernan Crespo (Chelsea) – free

Mancini (Roma) – £10.3m

Luis Jimenez (Ternana) – £4.7m

Sulley Muntari (Portsmouth) – £12.7m

Ricardo Quaresma (Porto) – £14.7m + Pele

Victor Obinna (Chievo) – free

Total: £42.4m


Inter Milan – 2009-10

Diego Milito (Genoa) – £11.6m + Robert Acquafresca + Riccardo Meggiorini

Thiago Motta (Genoa) – £3.6m + Francesco Bozoni + Leonardo Bonucci

Kerlon (Chievo) – free

Lucio (Bayern Munich) – £6.8m

Samuel Eto’o (Barcelona) – £17.2m (transfer included Zlatan Ibrahimovic moving to Barcelona)

Wesley Sneijder (Real Madrid) – £15.5m

Goran Pandev (Lazio) – free

McDonald Mariga (Parma) – £4.3m

Total: £59m

Inter Milan spell total: £101.4m



Real Madrid – 2010-11

Sergio Canales (Racing Santander) – £3.8m

Angel Di Maria (Benfica) – £20.9m

Pedro Leon (Getafe) – £8.4m

Sami Khedira (Stuttgart) – £10m

Ricardo Carvalho (Chelsea) – £6.7m

Mesut Ozil (Werder Bremen) – £12.5m

Total: £62.3m


Real Madrid – 2011-12

Nuri Sahin (Borussia Dortmund) – £8.8m

Hamit Altintop (Bayern Munich) – free

Jose Callejon (Espanyol) – £4.4m

Raphael Varane (Lens) – £8.8m

Fabio Coentrao (Benfica) – £26.5m

Total: £48.5m


Real Madrid – 2012-13

Luka Modric (Tottenham) – £33m

Diego Lopez (Sevilla) – £3.2m

Total: £36.2m

Real Madrid spell total: £147m


Chelsea – 2013-14

Andre Schurrle (Bayern Leverkusen) – £18m

Marco van Ginkel (Vitesse) – £9m

Mark Schwarzer (Fulham) – free

Willian (Anzhi Makhachkala) – £30m

Samuel Eto’o (Anzhi Makhachkala) – free

Kurt Zouma (St Etienne) – £12m

Mo Salah (Basle) – £11m

Total: £80m


Chelsea – 2014-15

Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona) – £30m

Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid) – £35m

Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid) – £16m

Didier Drogba (Galatasaray) – free

Loic Remy (Queens Park Rangers) – £8m

Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina) – £27m

Total: £116m


Chelsea – 2015-16

Asmir Begovic (Stoke City) – £8m

Baba Rahman (Augsburg) – £21.7m

Pedro (Barcelona) – £21m

Kenedy (Fluminense) – £6.7m

Papy Djilobodji (Nantes) – £2.2m

Michael Hector (Reading) – £4m

Marco Amelia (free agent) – free

Total: £63.6m

Chelsea second spell total: £259.6m


Manchester United 2016-17

Eric Bailly (Villarreal) – £30m

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain) – free

Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) – £26m

Paul Pogba (Juventus) – £100m

Total: £156m


Overall total: £883.8m
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Very nice, thank you. We all can see from there how exceptionally and improbably good last season transfers were. We're in for some big disappointments, with more risk choices and average players coming in. Just by the fact that, unlike last season, where Mourinho was working full-time on the coming transfers, this time he probably had almost no time to dedicate his attention to it.
 
Why the four players in the title of the thread, though? Because last season we just went for four? Last season was an one off in his career regarding the number and success of the transfers. I'm sure Mourinho is aware he needs at least six. But probably he'll pick a bunch of average players too.
 
Android1974 said:
Very nice, thank you. We all can see from there how exceptionally and improbably good last season transfers were. We're in for some big disappointments, with more risk choices and average players coming in. Just by the fact that, unlike last season, where Mourinho was working full-time on the coming transfers, this time he probably had almost no time to dedicate his attention to it.
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Think he has made one or two brilliant signings every season bar ironically his last one at Chelsea pretty much every season myself, which isnt bad at all. His last seasons signings for Inter especially were very very good signings.

Same token I agree with you to a degree when I keep reading "Mourinho is a beast in the transfer market" type witterings. He has always had a lot of money to spend and like every manager has signed his fair few duds as well.
 
I think we could end up signing 5 or 6 players.

I expect Griezmann, Dier and Keane to all be Manchester United players come August.

I'd then potentially expect another midfielder, a winger and a full back.
 
SirMattBugsby said:
Don't get the constant links with Monaco players. They have been wonderful this season but Mourinho has never set his team up in that style. The only players he might go after are Fabinho and Mendy.

My fab four (based on Mourinho's preference):

1) Mandzukic
2) Willian
3) Pepe
4) Oriol Romeu

Experienced centre-back, stronger spine, proper winger and a target-man, all of them with the work ethic José desires. And yes, I'm not sure about Griezmann coming when we have Martial, Rashford, Mkhitaryan and Mata. Playing three of them will easily provide the characteristics and level of Griezmann.
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So I might have got the name wrong, but the profile of player seems to be correct given the links with Perisic. Fairly confident the other profiles will be similar to what I predicted.

Oh, and it's our philosophical opposites buying Monaco players, not us. So enjoyable yet sad seeing people getting shocked by this fact..

What do you think of Perisic @Dong Fangzhuo @elnorte ? Underwhelmed, I presume?
 
SirMattBugsby said:
So I might have got the name wrong, but the profile of player seems to be correct given the links with Perisic. Fairly confident the other profiles will be similar to what I predicted.

Oh, and it's our philosophical opposites buying Monaco players, not us. So enjoyable yet sad seeing people getting shocked by this fact..

What do you think of Perisic @Dong Fangzhuo @elnorte ? Underwhelmed, I presume?
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Seriously doubt there is anything in the Perisic rumours personally, but yeah I'd be underwhelmed. It depends on context though. If we were signing 5-6 players and he had a reasonable pricetag, I wouldn't be opposed to adding a winger of his profile to the squad. His reported pricetag is ludicrous though, and I assume we're only signing 3-4 players, so I'd prefer we focused on better quality players to instantly improve the XI.
 
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Dong Fangzhuo said:
Seriously doubt there is anything in the Perisic rumours personally, but yeah I'd be underwhelmed. It depends on context though. If we were signing 5-6 players and he had a reasonable pricetag, I wouldn't be opposed to adding a winger of his profile to the squad. His reported pricetag is ludicrous though, and I assume we're only signing 3-4 players though, so I'd prefer we focused on better quality players to instantly improve the XI.
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Yeah it's a bit premature to discuss at the moment. I do think we won't be signing more than four players.
 
Keane
Perisic
Dier
Griezmann

Okay summer but underwhelming compared to last.
 
Why do people want Dier? Average in my view.

If we are saying 4 then I'd go:

Aubameyang
Mahrez
Fabinho
Sanchez
 
Jonnymufc said:
Why do people want Dier? Average in my view.

If we are saying 4 then I'd go:

Aubameyang
Mahrez
Fabinho
Sanchez
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The title of the thread is 'name four players you think we'll buy this summer'. It's not who we want but who we think we will buy,
 
Vito Corleone said:
The title of the thread is 'name four players you think we'll buy this summer'. It's not who we want but who we think we will buy,
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Yeah I know. Aubameyang is, I accept, a little unlikely but you never know. The rest are not unrealistic to my knowledge.
 
I'll tell you two players I'm not arsed about - Ederson and Morata. Why City fans think it's so hilarious we've been 'rejected' by them I don't know, because we couldn't care less.

The only one I thought looked quality is that Bernardo Silva.
 
A couple weeks ago, it seemed easy to predict who we'd sign.
Now i have absolutely no idea anymore.
Griez seems very possible, the rest, i have no clue.

Would be happy with him, Dier, Perisic and VVD, i think.
 
I love reading this thread. Every one's chosen 4 changes to who ever we are linked with per day. The only consistency is Greizmann.
 
................. Griezmann(80m)..........
James(45m)............................Sanchez(80m)
................Pogba..... Herrera.......
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Shaw......... Bailly........... Rojo.................. Val

These three are enough to win the treble. Dab dab dab dabd abd and abs based babsbbababs
 
Jonnymufc said:
Yeah I know. Aubameyang is, I accept, a little unlikely but you never know. The rest are not unrealistic to my knowledge.
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Sanchez and Marhez are very unrealistic IMO. Arsenal have no incentive to sell to a premier league team if Bayern are interested, and Marhez will not be on the list after the season he's had. Also hopeless defensively, which Mourinho doesn't like in his wingers.
 
Jacky Quacky said:
Keane
Perisic
Dier
Griezmann

Okay summer but underwhelming compared to last.
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With the exception of Griezmann, that looks dire if those are going to be our signings. If any of our rivals signed the likes of Keane, Dier, and Perisic we'd all be laughing at them.
 
Pep's mad rush to buy players does not seem calculated at all to me. It seems more like these players knocked his team out of UCL. so it seems more like panic buying of good players rather than calculated strengthening of the team or addressing of areas of weaknesses. It's like a reaction to being trophyless for the first time ever as a manager.
 
Anyone else here feel like a lot of people may be over-stating the importance and quality of foreign signings here? Lots of comments about Keane and Dier that (to my mind) seem to smack just a little of disappointment that we aren't instead being linked with a big-name foreign player.
 
I've no idea who we'll sign, but I'm quite certain it's not going to be Dier, Keane and Perisic. None of those links make much sense.

Dier: Mourinho has said he wants business done before preseason starts, and Levy isn't just going to sell a starter in mid-june when he can drag it out until deadline day unless we make some ridiculous godfather offer.

Keane: Much better options out there, the only thing he has over them is being english. The only thing he has over our current lot is fitness. Makes no sense.

Perisic: 28 y/o, far from the top quality we're looking for, way overpriced and plays a position we're not desperate for.
 
Mr Smith said:
Sanchez and Marhez are very unrealistic IMO. Arsenal have no incentive to sell to a premier league team if Bayern are interested, and Marhez will not be on the list after the season he's had. Also hopeless defensively, which Mourinho doesn't like in his wingers.
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My apologies, I meant the Ajax defender. Just think he looks a real talent and would hopefully not cost the earth. Understand why you'd think of the more famous Sanchez though!

Why is Mahrez unrealistic though? No reason why we couldn't get him and I think he's be great.
 
the picks people are predicting are very underwhelming to say the least.

Keane, dier and perisic are Liverpool-esqe signings, I'll be very disappointed if these are actually our main targets. None of those will take us up to the next level we need.
 
TehRed said:
Anyone else here feel like a lot of people may be over-stating the importance and quality of foreign signings here? Lots of comments about Keane and Dier that (to my mind) seem to smack just a little of disappointment that we aren't instead being linked with a big-name foreign player.
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Not at at, I like that United have always tended to have more of a home nations representation than other top clubs but like many others I don't see Keane or Dier improving us.
 
Jonnymufc said:
My apologies, I meant the Ajax defender. Just think he looks a real talent and would hopefully not cost the earth. Understand why you'd think of the more famous Sanchez though!

Why is Mahrez unrealistic though? No reason why we couldn't get him and I think he's be great.
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I think the fact that we're linked to a player like Perisic suggests that a Mahrez style winger is a no-go for Jose. And his performances this season have sort of suggested to a lot of people that he was a one-season wonder.

I'll back your call on Sanchez though, he looks like a beast.
 
Griezmann
Perisic
Dier
Keane

think we will get these 4, all will help balance up the squad as well, all an improvement to someone in the squad, would also think a new ST and possibly a CM or LB depending on if he thinks he can trust Shaw enough long term.
 
Lukaku/Chicharito
Greizmann
Dier
Keane
Mendy
Aurier



more than 4 yea, most likely is Greizmann, Aurier, Dier, Keane for me.

I feel like we will spend a lot, theres honestly probably MUCH better options than both Dier and Keane, but to keep up our amount of English players they are probably who we'll aim for.
 
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