I'm With Stupid
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Are we stronger than we were at the start of last season? No.
That's the only question you need to ask really. Torres and Ake are good signings, but neither really gets into our strongest eleven. Meanwhile, we've lost Silva and Sane who you could make a case do. Buying only youngsters and squad players is fine if you won the league by 20 points and kept the rest of the team together, but when you finished a distant second, you need to bring in guaranteed starters.
Having said that, Laporte will be like a new signing, and Bernardo has shown in the past that he's capable of delivering world class performances in a CM role (arguably POTY when KDB was out).
-1 point for not bringing in Koulibaly before the first game.
That's the only question you need to ask really. Torres and Ake are good signings, but neither really gets into our strongest eleven. Meanwhile, we've lost Silva and Sane who you could make a case do. Buying only youngsters and squad players is fine if you won the league by 20 points and kept the rest of the team together, but when you finished a distant second, you need to bring in guaranteed starters.
Having said that, Laporte will be like a new signing, and Bernardo has shown in the past that he's capable of delivering world class performances in a CM role (arguably POTY when KDB was out).
-1 point for not bringing in Koulibaly before the first game.