If we are punished next summer, the absolute responsibility of not having a replacement for Fernandinho will be Pep, knowing that he could sign in January and he did not. With Mendy's injury, we had a small squad in the midfield as Delph became the first option for the left back. Chelsea has 6 central midfielders, united has 6, liverpool 6, and we only Fernandinho and we have to improvise players who are not specialists and that in a definitive stage of Champions, level teams make you pay dearly, as we saw against liverpool last season in champions where our midfield could not counteract the physical exuberance of them and this year happened with Lyon.
Ndombele will go to Madrid or London in winter and if De Jong chooses Barcelona we will be left with only options for second-order players.