Personally I feel we should follow Chelsea's example not City's given it's 2-0 in champions league wins. That means signing the best prospects around not Barca and Real castaways. Clubs like Porto and Benfica are feeder clubs that take the best prospects from South America and sell them to top clubs when their ready. Two players I think we should sign are Luis Diaz (Porto, winger) and Darwin Nunez (Benfica, striker), they've been linked with Man U and Liverpool and could play for them, but probably won't get enough games, making us a good option for them if we get the right manager. Diaz is linked with Everton, but clearly we're in a position to beat Everton to their targets now. We need to bring in goals to survive and we can't gamble on Wilson's fitness, play a more attacking front three (all the best teams do) either Diaz, Wilson, ASM or Diaz, Nunez, ASM would score enough to keep us up this year and kick on next season. With this in mind I think we should appoint Andre Villas-Boas as manager, as he is respected in Portugal so can attract players, can instruct players in both Portuguese and English which will help them settle. I don't think a Conte will walk through the door straightaway and AVB looked like he would become a world class manager at Porto, but has been mediocre since. I think he's worth a gamble for 2 years to try and get into Europe, then we can attract a better manager. AVB has a better win % than Fonseca (who has never looked like a soon to be world class manager), plays attacking football and definitely speaks fluent English (I honestly don't know whether Fonseca does or not).
