Yes I know they’re tightening the belt but with the strange collection of very average players we’ve been signing we need at least one more good player to back up our remaining handful of quality players.
£10M is a lot of money but it’d make the difference between some possibly of promotion and a retreat into heroic mediocrity.

They’ve saved a lot and they probably could afford this one extravagance because it’d make financial sense in the medium to long term.