A disappointing window for me, Ake and Torres are decent signings but don’t immediately improve the starting 11. Dias looks like he could be a top signing but to early to really say.
We haven’t replaced Sane, left back is still an issue, as fans we have all said if we get an injury to a striker we will be light upfront and the club have ignored it. Now we are dropping points when a striker may have got us the 2nd goal to kill the game off.
I do also think having something new and exciting in the final 3rd can give a buzz and lift everyone. We look a bit stale and short of confidence in the final 3rd. Maybe Sergio coming back will lift everyone.
That said we as fans tend to think about one season at a time and want to win the league and everything else this year. The club will be thinking 4/5 years ahead when they put a squad together, we have a young defence now, Foden and a few youth players coming through, Bernardo and sterling still have a few years in them. So if they think they will get better value for money buying a Haaland or another top striker next year I can see why the club might be willing to wait. It’s about building a team over a 2/3 year spell that eventually all peaks together to give a period of dominance.
I saw Soriano talking about this way of thinking once.