if we get those four in that's our squad of 25 sorted, without any major sales, the only issue is with the wages, would we cover them just with offloading the absolute deadest of deadwood? The other issue is the wages we'll be paying for some of our backups.
so say we get:
Pickford
Arias Holgate Mina Digne
Doucore Allan Gomes
James Kean Richarlison
Lossl
Coleman Keane Branthwaithe Nkoulou
Gbamin Delph Siggurdsson
Walcott DCL Bernard
Virgina, Gordon, Iwobi
That would be our 25, so that's kenny, davies, bolasie, sandro and tosun all gone as well as a few fringe others like pennington and baningime. Would getting rid of all those mean we can pay for the 4 we want in? I'm not sure, in which case we'd maybe have to retain someone like davies instead of delph or siggurdsson. Iwobi being the odd one out as his place in the squad should really be for a youngster, just highlights how bad of a signing he is.
If we look at that squad though, that defence is still way too weak for me, hence why i'd hope we'd get an experienced centre back in. I'd probably prefer gibson over branthwaite myself, especially with him being able to share backup left back duties, whilst delph may have to be retained for that same reason.