With one key other aspect, going against Chelsea and Everton for example.
If they buy 8 players for £600m and within a year or two deem 4 of them mistakes. When they move them on, the fee cost less tiny amount of amortisation so far = net book value, is an immediate hit to losses for FFP...
TB will base the top price we’re prepared to pay, on risk and data. He won’t do a Boehly or PSG and irrationally add another £20m chasing a bet.
He’ll have a long list of CB’s across the globe as other options.
I agree. Almost guaranteed a start here and less pressure, we’d be better for his steady development, our track record proves that.
Even if just for another season’s loan.
It’s not a Ben White situation. He went with the Albion’s blessing, as a club a couple of rungs down the ladder we cannot keep our best players.
Chelsea see Colwill as a prize CB for the next decade, they think they’re as big as Barca or Real, they’re not going to sell us the player...
My thoughts exactly, have been all along and Chavs fas Andy Jacobs on TS has consistently said the same. After a long list of transfer faux pas, Boehly/Winstanley were never going to let a young crown jewel leave.
We'll be buying a CB from elsewhere.
This, sadly, is our Leeds 'Ben White...