Gone so far:
Tevez
Balotelli
Kolo
Bridge
Santa Cruz
Lolarov (very likely)
None of them worth keeping if you look it at it from a purely business perspective.
Keeping this category of player would prevent us moving for others. I'm sure most of us remember the 'got to get rid of the deadwood first' drama of last summer's window.
I'm glad and impressed we have had the sense and balls to move these players on early doors.
What a lot of you are now used to is the club spending huge sums on huge names. It has warped your sense of reality and left you needing your shiny new 'names'.
We are a business operating under constraints and therefore simply have to be much more frugal and subtle in our dealings.
Yes, 6 players have gone, but 2 excellent players have arrived to plug some of the gaping gaps that let us down so cruelly last seaon.
It wont end there. There will be more players. But these will be anchored in realism not the fantasy of seasons gone by.
Concerned?
Not at all.
Excited?
Fuck yeah.