We can definitely afford £100M+ in Winter if we wanted to. We’re incredibly profitable.
The problem has never been about the money, its getting players to join us as bench options. Thats the issue, we aren’t going to get a starting quality CB joining us, even if we’re 1st because they know they’re going to be on the bench until there is an injury. If there isn’t, they wont play.
Like, even a CM, someone like Eze from Palace would suit us IMO but i dont know if he’d want to play 2nd fiddle to Bentancur/Maddison for most of the season.
I still think we missed out big time on Connor Gallagher in the summer, he would be a great player coming off the bench 70 mins for us, constantly running and pressuring and good enough to fill in on the starting lineup as well.
At the very best, IMO they’ll get a 30 point deduction. Which they won’t care about in the slightest.
At worse, they’ll finish outside of any Europe and I doubt even that’ll happen, they’ll probably still make Conference League.
But they’ll take one year of essentially not challenging for the title in exchange for flippantly breaking the rules to get where they are.