Its not necessarily spending power:
Pjanic, 30, 6,5m - Arthur, 23, 5m
Rugani, 25, 3,5m - Romero, 22, 2m
Higuain, 32, 7,5m - Milik, 26, 5m
Bernardeschi, 26, 4m - Kulusevski, 20, 2,5m
Khedira, 33, 6m
Perin, 27, 2,3m
De Sciglio, 27, 3m - Some youth player
Pjaca, 25, 2m
Contract: Dybala from 7,3m increase to 12m
~42,1m net spend on those wages to ~26,5m net
So let’s say we used the money for Arthur with Pjanic and Muratore. Kulusevski got signed in january when Can, Han and Mandzukic left.
With a straight swap between Berna and Milik, we still have Pjaca, Higuaín, De Sciglio, Rugani and Perin to sell (and Costa, Matuidi, Ramsey but I doubt they’ll leave).
At this point we haven’t spent a euro and depending on our financial situation, there’s still a lot possible. But we’re (seemingly) doing good business with lowering the wages and average age. Less wages = more spending power imo.
I think this is a decent approach but it needs some update.
Berna will not go to Napoli. If the swap with Milik happens, it'll be Pellegrini or Romero. I'd prefer to give away Romero as we'll need Pellegrini.
IMO Berna will be more difficult to sell than DC. The latter is an international level player who could easily end up at PSG or EPL. On the other hand Berna has no market outside of Italy and within the country nobody will pay the transfer fee and his wages.
Sure, DC has big wages too, that's why Juve will sell him for cheap. The necessity of getting rid of him is huge IMO, he's never available and has a very big salary, significantly bigger than Berna.
Rugani should be sold, he's shit and earns too much. He'd be a nice plusvalenza but he'll be difficult to sell. Then you need a cheaper replacement. In the end I'm afraid he'll stay as he seems very comfortable here. Thx Tici.
Pjaca will leave on loan for sure. Minnows will not cover his full wages. Hopefully Perin will be sold, at least he's been playing consistently at Genoa.
If you release Khedira, then you have to buy someone to have the right number of midfielders. Whether it will be Jorginho/Locatelli/Tonali I have no idea but that will shrink the club's spending power simply becasue Khedira will leave for free (or probably not even that, Juve will have to pay him severance pay to get it done).
Pjanic, 30, 6,5m - Arthur, 23, 5m
Higuain, 32, 7,5m - Milik, 26, 5m
DC, 29, 6,5m - Kulusevski, 20, 2,5m
Khedira, 33, 6m - Jorginho 4m / Locatelli 2m
Perin, 27, 2,3m
De Sciglio, 27, 3m - Pellegrini ?m
Pjaca, 25, 2m
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I'm kind of struggling to see how Juve will be able to afford any big signings that most people around here expect. From my point of view it would be very good to get rid of Khedira and replace him with Tonali or even Locatelli and then offload Ramsey who's barely ever fit and replace him with De Paul - similar profile but much cheaper, younger and more fit. With that being said I really expect this tranfer window to be quiet in terms of big names coming in. SMS/Pogba/Partey type of players are always the dream but even pre-covid those would be difficult. Now I'd say those will be impossible.