Matt_B
Well-Known Member
Nothing would guarantee a tail off in our season quicker than a message to the players of "you were good enough to get us this far but we need a guy on twice your salary to see us over the line".London Standard reporting that we asked about him and were interested but he wanted to move to Southampton because the location suited him better and he was more likely to start every match.
Mind you, if David Gold is even close to being right that he's on £100k a week then no wonder there were few takers and he could well have caused some wage inflation here as others would be wanting parity.
All that, plus his notorious knee and I personally think he's best avoided.
We have a brilliant scouting network that identifies players based on a brilliant set of metrics. We rave about this, we don't now need them to abandon these principals in a panic buy. If there are no players that fit and that we can attain at a sensible salary then there is no point buying.
A bigger boon to us would be if we could extract more goals from the likes of Drinkwater, Albrighton and Kante to complement their superb play.
I also realise a lot of this isn't relevant to your post but couldn't be arsed to type it again.