VVD 75 million Carrillo 19 million
Tadic 15 million Armstrong 6 million
Mane 35 million Boufal 16 million

In fact read them all out like the football scores on the old saturday evenings.
All player sales reinvested my backside...oh and the little matter of 120 million from SKY, oh and the commercial deals, shirt deals, merchandising oh and the ticket money....and no the owner is not here to invest his own money and no he is a private guy and you dare not ask questions..

Nick you do know how to step in dog pooo and convince yourself it's good for the leather.

Looks like Les and Co could still be in charge of transfers. I had hoped MH would have been having his say and we would have seen more exciting moves. Armstrong a squad player, Targett one to keep, Tadic difficult to replace especially after last night's performance.

About as exciting as watching Panorama.

to sidsaint..

perhaps it's a bit short-sighted to suggest that Les & Co. have "sidestepped NH " and made a signing that he doesn't approve of. (?) The idea of signing players is to help the manager improve the squad, and not to have involved Hughes in the process is silly.

For everyone who has an opinion for/ against "The Black Box methodology", it would be naive to think that we are the only Prem.club to employ such systems, and indeed MH may well have scouted the player / or/ know of his history from his previous club(s).?
We do not know if Hughes had his say ..or even said that he didn't want the player, but it would be stupid for the club to sign a player that the manager didn't rate.

We may well see further transfer activity involving some of Mark Hughes' own " former favourites", but as we haven't actually signed anyone up until now, it would be wrong to suggest that anyone / everyone that we sign is against the manager's wishes.