Just thinking about this in the shower (enduring image for you all there) and I think, looking at teams around us, we've not come out badly at all. I was thinking of players in and out but also who you would expect to develop and decline.
City look stronger, but they're playing a different game to everybody else anyway.
RS have done nothing. Milner has to drop off at some point, Henderson must get found out at some point too. They have the most selfish player in the world up front and their coach is due a total meltdown. Can see Spurs pipping them.
Spurs: Fair play, have done well this window.
Chelsea: You can't realistically argue that they're stronger. They've lost Hazard, they can't buy anybody and have shipped out an aging CB. Untried manager.
Arsenal: Still no decent defenders and I don't think Luiz solves that, Pepe is an exciting signing but their average age is creeping up. Tierney a good buy.
United: Total shambles. Would expect Young to drop off a cliff this year performance wise and that's not even the start of the problems in that squad.
Around us I think Leicester pre-empted Maguire's loss last year but he still leaves a big question mark over their defense, signed really well in midfield, Vardy another year older, but I think they've done well.
Wolves, added decently, but being honest, I don't know enough about their squad to make any informed judgement.
In short, nobody has had a perfect window leaving them with no headaches and everything they want (City maybe, but Sane throws a spanner in their works). You can't say that anybody we would expect to leapfrog or compete with has radically improved their squad or addressed their issues in a significantly better way than Everton.
In short, we've done better than most. Kean is an absolute coup and I'm going into the season with optimism.
