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At this point I can see Eriksen, Toby, Trippier and Rose out for 150/200m with Lo Celso and Sessegnon in to replace. Maybe we will re-sign Llorente. I'm not sure we will do any other business. Ceballos and Saliba situations are unclear and it's also not apparent that we have irons in the fire as alternatives. I think both may be the case of them being talented players so us taking a punt on them.I honestly don't think Dier can do a job at right back anymore. He's lost an awful lot of pace since the last time he played fullback with any regularity.
If we go into the season Foyth, KWP, and a crocked Aurier on the right and Davies and a teenager who hasn't played the position in two years on the left as our fullback options then I don't think we'd realistically be competing with City and Liverpool. That would be understandable as closing the gap entirely in the space of one transfer window was probably always unrealistic, but I think in that scenario it'd be fair to put fullback down as a problem area.
Overall it would probably leave us in a very similar position to last season, scraping 4th. We wouldn't have made too many immediate improvements but we would at least be well set for the next few years. We'd need a CM and left back on top of that at the very least, with another forward ideally to be competing this season. That's ignoring RB too.