Thing is, if we’ve picked up a couple of injuries by January with the World Cup and hectic winter schedule, CL games, etc then unless we’re already about ten points clear in the league I can’t see how it would make sense not to sign a couple of players to strengthen the squad at that stage.
To be honest, looking at how weak our bench was at the weekend it would make sense to sign some now, but there aren’t many available that would improve us. It does seems we’re relying on not getting injuries early in the season though.
Time will tell. It seems a shame that when we finally address one issue by getting a proper striker, we limit ourselves elsewhere by having a tiny pool of players compared to our rivals.