I think that too, but we're not going to replace 12 players in one window. Unless say a Championship club comes in with a good offer for him, he's likely to stay. If Barnes, Vokes (once laughed at by us) and S.Cook can do a PL job, perhaps Hemed can as a back up.
True. Along with huge pay rises for any other key players retained for the PL first team.
A wage rise from £12,000 to say £35,000 per week, with employers national insurance, would cost the club £1.36m per annum per player.
I make it a £75m additional player budget for season one on wages and first instalments on transfer fees. TB, PB and CH are sensibly playing down expectations on signings. But I hope we use that money to sign or bring in on loan:
CB (4 needed in total until Goldson has fully recovered)
RB
LW...