Are you kidding me? We're only a couple of points off finishing top half this season, even with the terrible runs of form, the change of manager, the horrendous injury lists, having championship standard fringe players, losing Wilf to the AFCON-basically in despite of a totally disruptive campaign.

Now, with Sam in charge for a whole season, with a little more luck on the injury front and players returning, do you not think that 45-50 points is achievable?This is before we spend a penny. If we can get in a decent goalkeeper that will see an additional clutch of points added too. If we then added to this replacing say, half the aforementioned sub-standard fringe players, for example Lee, Mutch, Campbell and Delany with, Sako, an attacking mid, competition for Wardy and a decent third choice striker, we're going to push on even further.

Bar getting in Sako from Liverpool, keeping Wilf and finding a reliable number 1 I do not see the difficulty/huge stress in keeping/improving the squad, as generally speaking we should (given a bit of luck) already be in a much stronger position to start the next campaign.

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This is the age old debate of what he's worth to a seller vs what he's worth to a buyer. What he's worth to us surely greatly exceeds what a buying club would want to pay, and perhaps might go some way to explain the valuation that was mentioned?

Fee's should reflect the value of the player to the selling club, for intsance Everton got £50m for Stones which was more than he's worth but Southampton must feel robbed for the £35m they got for Mane. But on deals done concerting ourselves if Benteke and Sakho are worth £30m and Bolaise was worth £27m last year then a 24 year old Zaha should be in and around the £50m bracket with transfer fees likely to inflate again this window. Zaha has the 6th (9) highest assists (x3 more than Bolasie last season).

Such things are de rigueur in players' contracts these days. Don't sweat it; better to have him with a buy-out or relegation clause in his contract than refuse to accept them and lose him anyway.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Wilf stays has a superb season and world cup then goes for 75m next summer?

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