I,d agree with Dembele,(9mill?) Lennon,(9) Townsend,(12) Naughton,(4) Rose (6) Kaboul,(4) and Chadli (12). In an ideal world, for me I,d offer all 7 (50-60mill?) to Soton for Lallana and Shaw. Sell Livermore to Hull 8-9mill.
Buy back Caulker from Cardiff 8-9mill. Bring home Tommy Carroll and Holtby. Make a purposeful bid for either of the 2 strikers you mentioned or if Benteke 100% recovers from injury, then I would opt for him. With Ade going the other way as part of the deal. And, as I have said before, a cheeky 8-10mill bid for Henandez.
A (3-5-2) starting 11 of...........
Lloris: Chriches: Caulker: Vert (If he commits)(3): Walker: Paulie/Bentelab: Eriksen: Lallana: Shaw(5): Benteke? Lamala or Henandez.(2).
Subs Bench: Gk? Fryers: Bentaleb/Paulie: Kane: Soldado: Sandro: Holtby: Fringe Players. Daws. Capoue. Carroll plus right back cover for Walker?
Buddy play less Football Manager... Where do you take those transfer fee sums?
First of all we definitely won't play a 3-5-2.
Second, selling Dembélé for 9 (!!!) Mio., a player who has been crucial last season and is just one of many players who underperformed thisy year, is just idiotic.
Third, at least one of Lennon and Townsend should stay at the club. I mean even if Lamela will be the regular on the right wing we're still in need of cover and why selling two British Spurs lads just to sign a new player (sounds like the Caulker --> Chiriches deal).
Fourth, why selling Rose? For sure he didn't have the best season of his career but he's a more than capable backup with some talent and he's a British academy player aswell. We're definitely in need of a good left back, but we're in need of cover here aswell and I definitely don't think Fryers is better than Rose.
Fifth, Livermore might join Hull but not for 8-9 Mio. We'll definitely getting less.
6th, why do you want to sell Naughton? He's a decent backup for the right back position and if he don't want to leave, why should we sell him? He showed in the last games that he has the ability to cover Walker for a few games, and although he sometimes seems quite errorprone most of his games weren't that bad. I don't think that we could get a new backup with better abilities than Naughton who accepts sitting on the bench.
And last but not least, Benteke and Hernández? Benteke never really recovered from injury and Hernández is a striker in the box incapable of contributing outside.
Ah and by the way: the chance that Shaw will join us is a percentage rate way beneath 1% and the chance of getting Lallana depends on Pochettino joining us and is even then still unlikely. Just because 'Pool can make offers of the same amount than ours while offering higher wages and Champions League football.
So I personally think it might be the best to focus on Caulker and Jay Rodriguez, a new left back (Ben Davies? Radu?) and a new left winger (Milner? Konoplyanka?) while selling Adebayor (because of his wages and, more important, inconsistency) and players like Capoue, Sigurdsson, Holtby, Kaboul etc. depending on good offers coming in. Maybe loaning out Carroll, Townsend, Chiriches, Fryers, Bentaleb, Kane.