Ok... I am bored. Here goes...
So Malacia is over the line. Eriksen is a medical away. FDJ is interesting but I am confident Barca must cave. I expect we will get Martinez. I expect we will get a RW. For the sake of argument I will say it is Antony. I am not sure where to go with Ronaldo but we will assume he is off.
Thing is we have so much good youth we almost have to give ETH a year to sort the wheat from the chaff. We also have to give him awhile to sort the quality of Fred and McTominay. We will also give Martial one last chance to revive his career.
So how will we line up. I think a lot is pretty obvious except for one tweak. I would not be surprised if DVB lines up as our DCM. I just get a sense DVB understands what ETH wants and I believe he has the quality to be able top play at this level. Time will tell.
-------------------------------DeGea----------------------------
Dalot----------Varane-----------Martinez------Shaw
---------------------FDJ---------------DVB--------------------
Antony------------------Bruno-------------------Sancho
----------------------------Martial------------------------------
This leaves Eriksen, Fred, and McTominay as subs for midfield plus Garner if he shows enough. For attack, we have Rashford plus loads of potential we need to sort such as Amad, Pellistri, Hannibal, Elanga, Shoretire, and Garnacho. Truth be said I am ok if Ronaldo leaves so we can sort some of the potential. On defense we need to clear out some CBs and we know we will need an upgrade at RFB.
This year for me is just about righting the ship. I just want a team pulls on the shirt and comes out and fights for the badge. Top four is my goal. Then with the ship set on the correct course, we can add a RFB plus any and all other positions we need to reinforce. I honestly do not think we will need to many after this year. Again I completely support ETH and think we will be ok but will take two summer transfer windows until we have a squad we know is strong across all XI positions.
My two cents...