Denne føler jeg er «spot on» for mye tanker i hvert fall.
CB(R), CB(L), LB, CM, and ST, based on the media reports and where I felt our main weaknesses were.
I still thought we might be able to achieve that today, but it is looking unlikely with six-and-a-half hours left to go.
We do look like we've done RB, CB(L), LB, CM, and ST, but we've gone from the potential high of Trippier, Botman, Digne, Guimarães, and someone like Nuñez/Zapata to Trippier, Burn, Targett, Guimarães, and Wood.
To get our apparent first choices at RB and CM is fucking class, but it's a shame we managed to only do third/fourth/fifth choices at CB(L) and LB. I've no idea where Wood was on the list, but I'd imagine similar.
IF we get Lingard then that does augment our goalscoring options a fair bit, so it doesn't make the Wood deal look too bad in the context, but if he doesn't come we have fallen a little bit short of the absolute best we could have probably managed to do.
Still, for my own personal expectations, we really haven't done too badly at all and we have been incredibly ambitious in our approach. We haven't really been taken for mugs by anyone, we've negotiated hard and known when to walk away, but we've still strengthened the first team significantly, all without a DoF/CEO in place.
We're currently looking at:
Manquillo > Trippier
Schär/Lascelles > Burn
Dummett > Targett
Willock/Shelvey > Guimarães
Gayle > Wood
