[Voice-of-Sanity]

I waiting for some of the posters to say we have to trust Dowling and Jenkins, this penny is taking a while to drop.
They have no respect for us the fans, they are just looking after themselves. They should be sacked, fined and banned from holding such positions.
Mark my words, when we have NO players left to sell, NO parachute payments to siphon off - they will be off, pockets bulging laughing at us.
With an owner who is not interested the only chance we have is if he sells up. Even then it will take 2 or 3 years to rebuild the club at best.  
Trying to get a dozen players to join and bond as a team in 3 weeks is never going to work. Forget it unless we want to kid ourselves.
Dowling and Jenkins have had weeks to bring players in and they have done nothing, why is that ? Simple, they are not bothered they just want to
rake as much money in as possible. It's all out of our control, we're not out! but we're going down IMO!
The plan to turn us into a Championship team is exactly that, sell off all the PL players and reduce the wage bill to suit the championship finances.
Problem is we haven't purchased anyone so we now cannot even compete in the championship, we're on the way down guys.
Reminds me of the saying F**K the icebergs full steam ahead theory.  
Apart from that the Academy has produced 2 potential superstars that we should be proud of.
Moore, Shan , Harrison, Cutler, Scott and Hopcroft to name but a few of the 44 members who made up the Academy team can take a bow.

We have this panic every summer!  Dowling said some of the players who stayed last summer would go and that Slav would get the the baseline budget plus whatever is raised through transfers.  That currently stands at 15m plus whatever we get for Rondon and Rogers, so around 30-35m.  We are very early in the window, let's see where we are on 8th August.  What we need is quality not quantity.  Another 4/5 on top of Krovinovic will make a massive difference.  I suspect it'll be quite a few more than that.

I have to disagree with your numbers Extra Money coming into the club is as follows 
Parachute payments £35 million
Rondon fee £16.5 million
JRod fee £10 million
Rogers fee £8 million
Dawson fee £5.5 million
That's £75 million - and before you say don't include parachute payments? - we wont when we don't have any.
If Gibbs / Hegazi / Nyom leave as expected that will put another £15 million into the kitty.

The "competitive budget" Jenkins quoted was nothing - not one penny and people wonder! why I don't trust anything 
that comes out of his mouth. I would guess Bilic will get £25 million to spend and £50+ million will be off to China.
We can just but wait and see.

We're in the same ball-park c 70m, which includes wages (existing contractual commitments/budget).  

So basically you're calling Dowling a liar?