I mean, the amount of work that needs doing is insane. We're talking 10 out, 10 in...at least. Never gonna happen, so I'm not even gonna have any expectations.
Long as that board is in the building, we'll never be a serious club.
No post- Poch we needed 10 in 10 out but that's not the case now.
The floor of the squad has been raised. We have less properly dog shit players clogging up the squad than we used to.
We have lots of very good young players for rotation who will be improved next year after the minutes they've played already. Players like Bissouma and Danso would have been nailed on starters for us 4-5 years ago, they are now squad players.
What we lack now is any elite attacker. Son and Kane carried us for years in that respect (alongside prime Dele and Eriksen) but we now look very light in that area.
3-4 signings could have this team back in the top 4, just look at what Villa and Forest achieved very quickly with some good recruitment.
I'd focus on signing nailed on starters in the following 4 positions in order of priority:
6: Upgrade Bentancur and Biss
LW: Son is finished
RW: Johnson is not good enough
CB: we need a consistent starter of a similar level to Romero and VDV as they can no longer be relied on
The disappointing thing is that this list is precisely what I was asking for at the beginning of last summer. It's been very clear where the squad holes are but as an unserious club we still go the cheap route with the likes of Werner/Odobert etc.
Ange is making our squad look worse than it is. Any half decent manager would have us top 6-8. Add a few quality signings and top 4 is very achievable.