It's not the letting them go, it's the replacing them with zero creative quality.Agreed. Maybe should have kept digne and James. 2 of the 3 players who created all those big chances.
According to this: https://www.fotmob.com/leagues/47/stats/season/15382/players/big_chance_created
Digne and James both made 11 big chances each. Voldemort was next for us on 4. Then iwobi on 3.
This season, our top is richie and Gray, both on 5.
Digne a bit different - we did get a LB in. While I definitely understand letting James go, he shouldn't have gone outside of our transfer window.
Is what it is though. We had the chance to rectify it slightly in January but wasted a loan on El Ghazi. Dele isn't really a playmaker and Van de Beek was played deeper when he was fit.