[Blue Baggie]

I’ve been following Hegazi’s progress at AFCON this past week and he has some good teammates in the Egypt squad. The left back Ashraf has been good, his partner in defence tonight El Mohamady looks solid and is only 22 and Trezeguet on the left wing is very quick and strong but does drift in and out of games.

For us, Ashraf could be good to push Gibbs at left back (plays centre back for his club so adds cover there as well) and Trezeguet would be good if we can tempt him to England from Turkey (might be too audacious though).

We stole Hegazi and signed him for a silly £1,250 / wk - which we had to quickly increase as it was clear he could perform at the top level.
I will take your word for it about his team mates. Convincing our recruitment team to spending money is a major problem though.
I'm open minded atm - but unless we back Bilic with 7 or 8 perm signings, we're more likely to be in another relegation battle the promotion IMO.
We do have 5 weeks to sign 14 players (replacing those that have left) that's 3 a week.