It's August 17th, and the biggest piece of business has been receiving a 4 million pound sell-on fee. Who would have guessed that would happen? Aside from pretty much everybody?
The way I look at it, what matters is having a squad deep enough to try to win all our competitions. In a nutshell, I'd be shocked if we did. We need at a minimum:
1. Another good CB. Wimmer isn't happy, and he hasn't pleased Pochettino, though I agree he's been a good squad player. CCV showed he wasn't ready. So that leaves Dier for backup, who is always on the field already. Unless you count Davies, who is also always on the field already.
2. A LB. With Rose hurt and iffy at best when he gets healthy, we have Davies. Unlike RB, where we arguably have two good options (KWP and Dier), our backup is a 20 year old playing on the wrong side, who was already on the field vs. Newcastle. We might also ask our star CB, now 30 and already somewhat injury prone, to start racing up and down the flank, but I doubt we'll be stupid enough to do that--and that he'd agree.
3. A RB.
4. Another attacking midfielder. Things aren't quite so bad here, but we've got four counting N'Koudou, and I'm not sure Pochettino wants to give him much playing time.
I'm not as concerned about striker, where we've looked decent playing an extra midfielder. But if Janssen wants out, we certainly need somebody. There are at least a few promising academy options for both AM and striker, including Stirling, Harrison and Edwards.
The only spots we don't definitely look too thin in are CM, where we have Wanyama, Dembele, half of Dier and Winks for two spots. So that should be where we make a signing.
