[Blue Baggie]

Is he available on a free?  Forget it then. If we want to sign Gayle or Barnes we need to save all our pennies. And probably sell a couple more established
players. We have NO spare cash. This idea of Darren having a treasure chest is a Pirates of the Caribbean dream. With the parachute payments we have enough to balance the books that's it. What we need is a wealthy owner who is interested and has a bit of cash to invest in the team. Lai is  probably reluctant to spend any money after a £40 million splash last year saw us relegated.

Signing Barnes is a pipe dream imo.
There's no way Leicester would even consider selling him at the moment.
Personally I think they think he's got the potential to be a top player.  And they're right.
Unfortunately its gonna take some clever signings from lower leagues or
from abroad, as Josh has mentioned previously, to try and rebuild for the
seasons to come if we cant gain promotion this season.
If we can... then its time again to throw the silly money around again I guess?  

Your probably right about Barnes - Gayle could be a possible with the Rondon money - that's if he wants to stay.
We don't have any other money to throw around - the pot be empty. 
We have a DoF and a head of recruitment lets hope they turn up a couple of bargains - they are out there. e.g. "Dack" only cost Blackburn £850,000 18 months ago, we just need to find a couple of guys like him. 
If we don't get promoted we need to save £10M next year and £30M following year and £15M after that as the parachute payments dry up. If we stay down we wont be able to keep our good players never mind throw money around.