It's no rocket science that we need to improve the 1st team and squad. Personally I hope that we don't sign too many players at once and just focus on first team players (starting quality). We don't want to break up too much of the current eleven and start from scratch when it comes to building up the team spirit and so on. Replace some of the starting ones and let the some of the current players drop down and become more like squad players. We might be able to sign many players better than what we have but that would also mean that it will take time to get all the pieces together and work as a team. Seen numbers of 7-10 players and when it gets closer to ten new ones I think it's a bit too many too soon. A few steps at the time..
Personally I'd go for a new CB, LB, CM, LW, #10 and a striker at a maximum and even then it's getting close to too many Imo. Add another winger if we don't sign Atsu. It's quite a few players but it's not like it's an entire new midfield or back four either which is important Imo.
I've seen lots of people (mainly twitter mongs) mention that 70-100m only gets you like 3-4 players. There are a lot of good deals to be done out there, loans as well, and just because some clubs sign players like P. van Anal for 14m or whatever it doesn't mean that we can't get equal or even better quality for less money. Say that we have 80-100m after player sales then it's more than enough for the summer window, I mean I would probably even save a bit from that for the January window.
I'm kind of bored so I'll just give a loose and stupid example anyway without mentioning player names. I'm just putting a fee as an example, and it doesn't have to be this fee, or in respective position as below, but just toying with the idea of 80-100m
CB around 15m
LB around 10m
Couple of quality loans 6m (could even be for one of the positions above))
That's 4 players for around 30m! Which means that we'd still have 50-70m to spend. Rafa is well connected as well so I'm sure he can find bargains as well
