Romero + Rodon is an upgrade on last season's CB pairings. (If Romero is actually as good as everyone seems to think).
Which second CB signing is going to be better that Rodon? Our links have all been of a similar level outside of Romero. Lacroix and Kounde are unattainable.
Tomiyasu will be the RB, hopefully that is tied up next week. An upgrade on Doherty and more reliable than Aurier.
CB and RB are the priorities and both should be done next week.
The second centre back and another attacking option can be done later in the window.
We have Lucas/Gil/Bergjwin/GLC/Ndombele/Dele as attacking options depending on how we line up. It's not urgent.
Being an upgrade over last years pairings isn't good enough, we are not competing against last years CB pairings we are competing against CBs from teams around us and that pair would be nowhere close to the top clubs in the league.
Lots of players our there that are better than Rodon, Rodon has shown nothing to indicate he is ready to be a PL starter let alone for a team with supposed top 6 aspirations. As easy solution would have been keeping Toby who is much, much better than Rodon.
Tomiyasu is a bad option at RB and likely isn't available for the first 4-5 games of the season.
Later in the in the window???
We start the season in two weeks, start ECL qualifying shortly after that. Right now we are looking at likely having at least one, if not both of Lucas and Bergwijn starting PL games for us that is terrible. We are looking at potential 2 of Dier/Sanchez/Rodon starting for us in the PL and one almost guaranteed to start that is a disaster.
We have known about the holes at CB, RB, RW and striker since before the summer, it is pathetic that at the start of the PL season we still have these issues, that we are waiting until the end of the transfer window to address them.
The team that will start against City will be worse than the team we had last year.
