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In a year’s time, whoever’s the manager, your synopsis may well become the reality.

I wasn’t aware that they we had these relative wage uplift clauses, until a few NSC’ers confidently informed us that we do. I hope it’s none. We’re not getting lucky with digging out gems in the Dutch league, so TB will have to pay the going rate. No.10’s and strikers cost the most anyway.

I really, really hope there is a ceiling, or no such clause at all. Say we signed an exceptional striker or ACM on £100k a week, it would be madness if Dunk, Duffy Propper and Knockaert automatically doubled their pay. That scenario seems far fetched, I can’t imagine TB being that naive. It...

Down the spine of the first team - pace, power, creativity, instinctive on ‘the transition’, goals.

Exactly and shirley TB will act. We have to join the PL club. IMO Villa will go up and spend big, CP and West Ham will do it yet again. We can’t afford for a third season to be the slow, predictable team/squad, that rarely scores.

I think CH and PW discuss our positional needs, PW comes with possibilities from his extensive scouting bible, then they work their way down the targets in order. PB/PW making contact. The elephant in the room is that because our wages cap is £50k, whereas CP, Bmuff, Leicester, West Ham...

With Ajax (until now) and dutch football being at it lowest ebb in 55 years. As covered in great detail by Johan Cruyff in his last autobio.

Our ‘unique’ insight into the Dutch league, if it ever existed, wasn’t all that.