Last 16 of the Champions League and comfortably winners of the league with an unbeaten season. That saw our player values rocket up. Against perhaps better judgement I decided to renew Toni Kroos' contract for another year even though he's now 35 and only 3 stars. But we signed Elia Caprile for his agreed price of £8.5m along with the most eccentric goalkeeper in the world Moisés Ramirez to be his backup. Then it was on with getting rid of the players I don't need anymore. Greg Taylor as per usual was released by Celtic on a free. But this year he looks a lot better than on previous versions, so he'll do as a backup. So Max Lowe is off to Saudi for £10.75m. Quite the swap. On the right back front Joshua Brenet was good for a free, but he's 31 and when the Saudis come calling you can't ignore it. £6.75m for him.
Last out so far (not even 1st July yet) is going to be Daniel Jebbison. He ended up being third choice striker behind Toklomati and Miovski (Miovski was even second top scorer in the CL). So he's going to Germany for £4.5m.
And with those arranged it's all about trying to make sure we don't rely on loans too much anymore (Mainoo is back for a third year, he completes this year he becomes home grown at Aberdeen and if we get enough money we can go after him and that's a no brainer) and so the two players I've made priorities:
Neither will be starters. But at least the worry over homegrown players should be a lot easier to cope with.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, Luka Topalovic. £1m from Domzale start of second season, just turned 18. 44 games total, 19 goals, 9 assists, 7 POM, av rating of 7.41. 17th place in NXTGen. He should be everyone's go to signing.