If Reya ends up being £20 odd million then fair does, at 40m though I don’t think he is worth it. I’d rather we solved our association trained player issue by signing Maddison (who, alone, I think is likely to take up what remains of our budget) or even Alex Scott. I’d prefer us to solve our association trained player problem by shedding overseas players who simply aren’t good enough like Sanchez and Dier.
The Kulu and Porto deals are indeed financed…. Using this summer’s transfer budget.
Seriously though, without CL football I can’t see how the club make more than another £50m available on top of that £80m already committed. I think our new manager will need a CB (and maybe 2) to come on free transfers and then fund both a keeper and an AM out of £50m and any income from sales. The problem is that we’re unlikely to get much in the way of fees for our unwanted players.
The perfect summer for me would be a new contract for Kane, Reya or Livakovic coming in as new number 1 GK, Ndicka at CB, Maddison and Alex Scott as AM options and Thuram as a LWF option. Thuram and Ndicka being on free’s is key.