Let's agree, for the purpose of grown up debate, you are right -1: There are a number (what; 5, 6, 7, 8?) of players, who wouldn't make it into a current top four team and 2: We want to compete so there is no place for those players.
How many players do you reckon we will need to sign this Summer? Remembering, of course, that not all players will hit the ground running.
Oh and to be fair there are a quite a few, of the top four squad players, who wouldn't get a start for us.
Best case scenario we would get about 5 new players.
At an absolute bare minimum, we need three.
1) a new CB, to pair with Agger (ideally 2 CBs)
2) a DM to give Lucas some competition, he was poor most of this year and needs someone to compete
3) another striker, we're going to be without Suarez for 6 games, and on top of that Sturridge has proven he can be brilliant, but NOT proven he can be brilliant consistently, Borini hasn't proven anything yet, so we absolutely need another striker to come in
those would be the three minimums for me.
I think we also need an quality #10, i.e., Eriksen.
And another LB to give Enrique competition.
If we bring quality in at all those positions top four would be a serious possibility IMO.
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