Sadly I think we can now expect our transfer activity to be done in this window. This has the classic signs of Mr Levy's Modus Operandi all over it. He has committed £60M of spend with about £22M of income from sales, so £38M net - give or take a couple of £Million. He has agreed (in his own mind) to sell Bale a few weeks ago for about £80m to RM but he'll string it out until the last day when it'll get done. He'll then put the net profit on activity in the Bank and say to himself "what a a wonderful window - fans congratulating me for doing business early, Chadli in as Bale replacement and £42m put in the Bank - lovely!!!".
Bale is gone - classic signs are there - injured so he can't play in any matches and thereby risk a long term injury - not turning up to support the side, generally being disconnected - he's already at RM in his head - Mr Levy has given him a bit of a signal that he'll let him go and he's just waiting for 2nd September to be off.
So very, very sadly I predict another wasted season, scratching around to get 5th again - but Mr L will be happy - it is always about £pounds today - never going that extra bit to give us a real chance of getting 3rd/4th and maintaining it.
Sorry to be so pessimistic - happy for you to tell me I am wrong and to being wrong but I fear I am right.
Bale is gone - classic signs are there - injured so he can't play in any matches and thereby risk a long term injury - not turning up to support the side, generally being disconnected - he's already at RM in his head - Mr Levy has given him a bit of a signal that he'll let him go and he's just waiting for 2nd September to be off.
So very, very sadly I predict another wasted season, scratching around to get 5th again - but Mr L will be happy - it is always about £pounds today - never going that extra bit to give us a real chance of getting 3rd/4th and maintaining it.
Sorry to be so pessimistic - happy for you to tell me I am wrong and to being wrong but I fear I am right.