Yes DIC are a business but they know that to make money you have to invest in assets like David Villa which they can easily afford, no joke and no borrowing !

Others:

Modric- tottenham £16m
Nasri- arsenal £11m
Bosingwa – chelsea £16m
Gilardino – fiorentina €15m
S.Keita – barcelona €14m
Garay – Real Madrid €10m (+plays next season in Real Santander)
Dos Santos -tottenham £11m ?
Behrami – sevilla ?
Alves – barcelona ?
Silva -barcelona ?

today Goal.com only RUMOUR: Vargas strongly linked to sign for Fiorentina for €15m or €12m plus one of their player Caccia.
He’s been the best left back in Serie A for the last two seasons.
I remember us being heavily linked him in the past, have we now missed him because he’s to expensive? He’s spanish speaking so would probaply fit in better than Dossena. Does Rafa think Dossena is better or CHEAPER option? Apparently Fiorentina has beated Real Madrid, Juventus, Roma among others for his signature.
Chiellini and Grosso are ahead of Dossena in Italy’s euro sguad, (for his defense, have to say both quality players).
There seems to be so many quality players potentially available for transfer this summer, Villa, Silva, Eto’o, Ronaldinho, Vargas, Alves, Lahm, Nasri, Milito, Huntelaar, Mancini, Quaresma, etc.
So,
Enjoy the summer and remember to mark over the name of every quality player we’ve been linked in the past,(post Hicks&Gillett, now we are linked to cheaper options: in Rafa’s carefully pointes words, the right players not necessarily expensive’s) once they sign for one of our rivals.

That’s a good last post. I’m also impressed by your list of potentials, although I’m strongly apposed to the Queresma possibility, in my opinion he’s one of the most overrated players in world football.

I would love us to sign Silva, if available. Valencia finished pretty poorly this year so they may have a bit of an exodus, Silva would be an outstanding player for us, if he can handle the physical treatment and poor non-Valencia-esque weather!.

It’s true a might have misunderstood your point.
And i agree with you that we just have to accept the current situation. I just hope we would soon find the final solution (what Rafa suggested) about the ownership of the club. And
also positive news regarding transfers..
You told we scored 117 goals and 6+ players scored more than 10 goals wich is great, BUT in the premier league we scored 67 goals, 35 of those by Torres & Gerrard(24+11)+how many assists alone by Gerrard?) and the rest together only 32. Voronin 5, Crouch 5, Babel 4, Benayoun 4 and Kuyt only 3. Thats five forward players scoring only 21 together!
Agger’s injury was showing but it’s no excuse, other teams suffered because of injuries maybe even more than us last season. chelski and arsenal..
Like you i’m behind Rafa whoever he signs(he’s proved that with Mascherano, Alonso, Skrtel, Agger, Reina, Torres, Babel etc.) but it would be good that he would get proper backing now and buy more of those than having to settle for the second or third choise targets or buy bosman players again: (bellamy, pennant, aurelio, voronin, degen..).
It was interesting to realise that our wage bil is much less than chelski and manc and aprox £15m less than arsenal..
You ask what is quality player in my opinion?
Actually the more i think about it, i have started to be more confident: It’s simple, if we sell those 5-6 players, we will replace them, those 5-6 (crouch, pennant, riise, voronin..)are all good players so if new players are better than those we sell, they have to be quality. And that would make as much stronger. Barry is quality and i’m happy if he’s coming, no matter what happens with alonso. Also quality players that might be available this summer(i don’t mention unrealistic dream signings like kaka, messi etc. or centre backs, wich we don’t need now). Here’s one list: Bentley, Mancini, Chiellini, Bale, Behrami, Vargas, Amauri, Aquilani, Vucinic, D.Milito, Nasri-(arsenal), Modric-(tottenham), Alves-(barcelona?), Huntelaar, Zambrotta, Dos Santos, Silva, Villa, Drenthe, Marcelo, Lisandro Lopez, Quaresma, Luis Fabiano, Riera, Nico Krancjar, Jesus Navas, Gilardino, Bosingwa-(chelski unrealistic fee!), Menez, Ben Arfa, Benzema, Saviola, Berbatov, Mario Gomez,

Riise- Dossena
Alonso- ?
Finnan- Degen
Crouch- ?
Voronin- ?
Pennant- ?
Kewell- ?
Itandje- ?
+Carson, Quthrie, Leto(no need to replace)