Boys I've read your recent transfer strategies, but I am missing out a little here...
We sell Palladino, Iaquinta and basically stay up in front with Trez & DP only?
I read about possible transfer of Iaquinta to Napoli and honestly I do not mind as long as we take some cash back. I figured 12 mln euros would be great.
Palladino I cannot see him for more than 15 mln. euros, he is young and talented, but except a few performances he has been disappointing this season. And you cannot blame it all on his position.
So all in all we get ~27 mln. euros in cash and 2 great strikers upfront at the end of this season... Amauri in my opinion is not the best option around there, although he could play well as a single forward. I would highly discuss Kun Aguero or Dimitar Berbatov. If Atletico fails for a CL spot which is likely, because they have one easy game left and it is against injured Valencia, we would have the upper hand and quite a budget. On the other hand Berbatov stated that he is feeling already that he is in the age for a CL breakthrough and wants to move to a bigger team.
Both of these players are better than Amauri and one of them has a huge future ahead.
Middle of the park. I dunno about Tiago, he shown some quality but he must provide more. Maybe it is better to sell. We get Marchisio, and Giovinco on Nedved's place, but Giovinco have a more attacking game and might not adapt well. I still believe that VDV is basicly the best option around since Diego is impossible.
Defence. All the same here. De Ceglie coming, Mellberg... just one big question remains. Stendardo!!! I was amazed by his last games. In my book he is better than Legro. Why spend on Mellberg when we have Stendardo. I am sure we can 'convince' Lazio for a swap deal of some kind. I like this guy - he should definitely stay.
So I would say that if we had to splash some cash on the market:
We get(optimistically)...
27 mlns for the forward line (Palla, Iaquinta)
6 mlns Almiron
10 mlns Tiago
4 mlns Molinaro
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47 mlns. Very, very cool. We could spent on Stendardo, I know that he has some shitty loan-deal contract saying he costs 10mln. euros, but maybe we could get him for 7.
So all in all 40mlns to spend in other departments without club injection. How much do you think this will be? I reckon if we target big it would be around another 30 millions.
70 mln. euros and targets Kun Aguero/Dimitar Berbatov, 4th striker (could be someone free and experienced like Crespo), VDV/Attacking Midfielder.
I think it is completely DO-able. Let's hope Secco does it.