Still confident that Barkley is coming in January, so we need to pray to every deity that Eriksen stays injury free over the next few months (he does, touch wood, have an excellent injury record for us).De Bruyne is on form right now but in terms of out and out ability and also what we need it would be either Hazard or Sanchez. With a manager like Poch they would be unplayable. I don’t think Sanchez cares anymore at Woolwich.
I feel if we had gotten Zaha and Barkley in the summer our attack would have been close to complete though. At the moment it’s the insane depth in attack that City have that is the difference for them.
Yes it's a cliche, but our returning injured players are going to be so 'like a new signing'. One year without Lamela (whose assist stats were outstanding in the brief part of last season he played), Rose finally returning, and Wanyama to compete with Dier.