We might also sell and replace with a not so flashy name. Tiago or Poulsen may be sold to make room for that player. I see Ekdah being loaned out. He is now ready to play first team football with a small Serie A team.
I agree. This could easily happen.
I'd only put the bolded part a little differently: Tiago or Poulsen won't be sold to make a room for the new player. They will be sold to provide the cash needed for the Nedved sub.
Now, many things depend on the second part of this season. If we have a great season, especially in Europe, we may be even more active on the market. If we have a very bad season Ranieri may leave and there will be lots of changes.
But if we have a solid season and Ranieri keeps his position then i don't expect many changes. 2 players for every position. That's what we're doing.
In CM we found ourselves with 3 players for every position and that's only because we couldn't sell Tiago. I'm pretty sure that if we sold Tiago we wouldn't have bought anyone. Actually, we already bought the player to replace Tiago, and that's Poulsen.
So, if we end up selling Tiago there is a good chance that we won't even replace him (because we already have enough cover on MC) and we'll use that cash for the "Diego" purchase, or we will replace him with , as you said, a not so flashy name.
20-30M is our transfer budget imo (+selling some players). We must have in mind the world crisis and we should be aware that we won't invest some crazy money for transfers.
We'll only fix some holes (Zebina's injury, Nedved retirement, Knezevic back to Livorno) and maybe sell some of our bench players for profit and then replace them with someone cheaper.