Totally unrealistic to sign 3 more players, especially if one of them is alaba asking for wages that would break our wage structure.
Get tagliafico in and get Garcia and zinchenko off the books and we are sorted squad-wise.
Whether pep acknowledges teams have a good blueprint on how to set up against us and we need to adapt is a different matter. That isn't to say I want pep out. Best manager in the world, but with that you get stubbiness.
Unrealistic it may be, but at the moment we have zero options of any note to play at left back. When we sign a left back we then have zero back up options. You may say Ake is backup, but that once again is playing people out of position (Ake, Zinchenko and Cancelo) and that will not work in big games or for any length of time.
We now have Dias, Laporte and Ake so that's a pretty decent centre back trio.
All I am saying is if you want to win and be at Liverpool's level (which sadly we are now not at present) you need to identify the week points and rectify.
As far as I am concerned Mendy is done, so either loan him or leave him out, I would even loan him and not ask for wages just to get him out and playing.
Zinchenko, again loan out let him play and then get a fee next year
Garcia, fuck him. rinse barca as best we can if they don't pay put him back in the EDS
Stones - I wantg him to succeed. but again just loan out, get the games, build confidence and either sell or bring back.
Just fed up of seeing the same shit over and over.