It's a decent point with Martial absolutely nailed on to leave on a free and the fact that we're also down to the bones in that position but a good offer for Rashford might be too difficult to ignore, especially with FFP issues. Having Hojlund and building the attack around him helps but ideally we'd need two strikers or one striker and one winger which is a lot to ask and probably very pricey.
On a related note, this club has just fecking sucked at its recruitment and structure for so long and survived by just winging it. Hopefully the new structure will sort it out over time.
A Martial replacement is just a quad striker to come in as back up to Hoijlund, we ain't signing another 80m striker to replace Martial. On Rashford, if we can sell well we will have about 60m plus a huge chunk of wages off so he will pretty much buy his replacement. So it's possible we come out of that deal just 40m down.
The most difficult things to do in this window is finding takers for Antony and Sancho. High wages and reputations in the gutter I doubt even the Saudis look their way. This will hurt us because we are going to need another winger with World Class potential which could cost us anything between 60m and 100m.
Big work will need to be done in midfield, Casemiro is no longer quick enough to recover in this league, is on high wages but has a reputation that will earn him a Saudi move. He will need replacing, he can fund his own replacement through a transfer fee and saved wages. However, like Casemiro before, that new signing will need a back up. That will cost money to bring in because bargain basement Amrabat won't cut it.
Last summer we could have got away with a one in - one out for the RCB. Assuming Varane leaves and we also sell Maguire we will need two CBs, Martinez and Shaw are too injury prone and will need credible back ups - we could keep Malacia and look to sign an LCB who can also play LB.
We have too much to do and this is why we need the new team in place by June because by my estimation we need about 7 players for the first eleven and the squad. We are going to have to do some top class scouting in the Championship, French League, Portugal and South America to pick about 3 under the radar signings in the Zaha/Dan James price range to come in and fill a role.