I have a feeling we will announce another 4/5 signings in next 7-10 days as it appears there is lot of ground work being done in last few days as per papers.
Bruno & Sean Longstaff are easy ones and then atleast 2 more signings for the following positions.
CD
RW
ST
I’ll be surprised if we don’t get 3-4 more players. I’m guessing many here will be disappointed with the 3-4 we will get (if we do). I’m not so surprised we haven’t offloaded more players early on, nor that we have renewed with quite a few. Unlike some, I don’t think having Jones, Young and Mata in the squad is what holds us back. I think they are important though not sufficient in order to win the culture of the dressing room, and they are in fact not too shoddy back up options.
I think who we let go will have to depend somewhat on who we get in (and who we can’t keep). We have many players in midfield with partly overlapping qualities (Matic, McTominay, Fred, Pereira, Pogba). None of them are useless, none of them are indispensible (to put it mildly). If we get an established holding DM, we will have little use for Matic, if we get a more inexperienced one (Rice or Longstaff?), having Matic makes sense. If we get someone in the ilk of Fernandes, Pereira can go, if not, he’s a decent squad option to have. (Can develop, United-lad, packs a good shot). With players like Fred and Pereira, it also depends a lot about the potential Solskjær sees in them off the pitch and in training wether we will keep them or not.
In attack, much probably depends on wether we can offload Lukaku for a sufficient prise, unless we have one attacking superstar we are dead set on bringing in no matter what. I’m guessing not, but what do I know?