The same fancy numbers have been floating around for two years now but those fuckers are still here.
Everyone is still in the middle of a pandemic. Sure they will spend millions on rubbish, which they can get for free, if waiting long enough.
We wanted ~18m for Joao Mario last season.
We wanted ~20m for Radja.
We wanted ~12m for Dalbert.
We wanted ~15m for Lazaro.
We wanted to maintain capital gains for FFP. Guess what? FFP is partly dead.
We can make whatever sales necessary, the issue is how much we will be getting as first instalment.
If Lukaku goes, Manchester United also has a 5% or something on top. We're not going to get that in cash, but we may manage to get something like a 40m down payment if we sell him for 80m. That still means that we need to get money from others.
We need to raise money from the sales of guys like Mario, Dalbert, Lazaro, Radja, maybe Vidal as well. That's probably going to fetch us 20m instantly on its own, so still, not really enough, but of course we also have season ticket sales, new sponsorships. But still, the 80m figure is exactly why another player has to be sold (where we get around 30m maybe in cash instantly) and that is most likely going to be Brozovic, with De Vrij and Eriksen being the next two candidates perhaps.
But we will be hearing a lot about Skriniar leaving as well, Lautaro and several others. Marotta is a trigger happy dude, the new coach will have no attachment to these guys even if he rates them, so it's up to the management what they decide.
I think Inzaghi can get something done if we sell Brozovic and Lukaku. Brozovic may be out next season on a free, so it's safer to sell him if we cannot renew him. Building around Lukaku does not seem like a good strategy for Inzaghi. It'll hinder both Lukaku and the team. It's maybe best for both parties to cash him in. I don't think Simone is willing to pamper Lukaku the way Conte did and I don't think Lukaku has much respect for this guy either, so it may become a volatile situation now that Lukaku feels like the club belongs to him.