For those advocating wholesale change, it needs to be remembered that players often take an entire season to adapt to Guardiola’s system, let alone acclimatise to the British conditions and game, so it’s difficult to see more than 1-2 leaving. After all, two arrivals would only compensate for the loss of Mendy and Torres, in terms of pure numbers, so if two more left, we’d be needing around 4 players just to get us back to full strength, and as I say that means too many adjusting at the same time. There’s also little coming through from the academy to act as a bridge; Palmer is now six months behind in his development and the others are further behind still.