The first thing to note is, City`s wage % is far higher than City would want them, success breeds expense, so City going into a season with a small squad was probably necessary, but we played 66 games this year and there is nobody coming out of the Academy, to ease the burden during the course of the season, then there are the players not good enough that Pep would not trust them against relegation fodder, Steffen, Gomez and Phillips. City need numbers, youth, pace and determined players that we had, but City need to use all available avenues such as loan deals, when utd loaned Falco and bought Di Maria i laughed, both had said they did not want to play in the EPL, Falco`s loan deal was huge but it saved utd a fortune as they found out he was crap, loan deals can save you money. So who to go for Alphoso Davis, we have not replaced Mendy, Bayern do not want to sell but he has been tapped up by Madrid and is causing trouble Bayern might cut their loses if they believe it is a better deal, either way we get Madrid to pay more. Michael Kayode, we need a back up for Walker, if only for those games where he has no one to mark so is as useful as a corner flag. Khephren Thuram, rodri has been targeted and we need a back up, we saw what happened when he was banned. John Kennedy, we saw little of him during the CWC final but he is brilliant quick tricky and determined, could turn out better than Jesus, he also wants to move.
Four in but we have the space, we have the transfer money, we may have to do a little maneuvering but City will be a lot better squad going into the new year.