The theory that we should only sign one or two players makes no sense. Getting rid of players isn't going to hurt the morale of players that stay... if anything it will improve it.
We are miles away from the top clubs in terms of first 11 and squad depth. Waiting another summer just delays the improvement yet again. And other teams WILL improve over the summer. City, Liverpool, Real, Barca, Juve, Bayern, PSG will all make big signings. If we don't we will drop further behind instead of making up ground.
Under Jose, the squad was underperforming. Under Ole it has overperformed. We can't expect him to keep working miracles.
Out: Valencia, Darmian, Rojo, Jones, Sanchez, Pereira, Lukaku
Options:
CB - Koulibaly
RW - Sancho / Pepe
DM - Kante / Rice / Neves
CM - Eriksson /
ST - Vardy / Werner
RB - AWB / Meunier
Promote: Greenwood, Gomes, Garner, Laird and Chong for League Cup / FA Cup games
This would give us an excellent first team and depth. Some will kick off about replacing Lukaku with Vardy, but the latter is a more consistent finisher, superb at finding space, can play counter, good link up play and should be fairly cheap. Being older he won't stop the progress of Rashford, Martial, Greenwood. He is a Ferguson signing. Mean, lean, like a flea bitten stray dog.
We need cover at fullback. If Dalot or Shaw get injured, we only have Young. If our right winger gets injured, we can play Dalot there. He will get plenty of games.
De Ligt is going to Barca, so we have to get Koulibaly, preferably before Real come calling.
Sancho ideal, Pepe would still be a big improvement. Chong can be understudy.
Getting Kante would be amazing, though unlikely. Rice may be too expensive. Neves + McTominay are good options.
CM is the hardest spot, can't think of many attainable signings who would fit in. Eriksson if Zidane says no? Hopefully Fred will step up.
If we could get CB, RW, RB and CM I would be happy, but don't think it's enough to win the league. Anything less and it's a tough year ahead - wouldn't be surprised to see people start turning on Ole, out of stupidity.