If we signed Patterson from Rangers for £10mil and also Arnau Comas for free from Barcelona then thats potentially very good business.
At the start of next season we would have:
LB: Nkounkou (21)
CB: Branthwaite (20)
CB: Comas (22)
CB: Godfrey (24)
RB: Patterson (20)
Thats potentially a good base of young players in the squad to build a foundation from.
LB: Digne (29)
CB: Mina (27)
CB: Keane (29)
CB: Holgate (25)
RB: Coleman (33)
I think we are at a point now where as much as I like Digne and Mina they need to be sold. The other 3 simply must be moved on as well.
Id be FAR more comfortable than now if we signed Patterson + Comas in Jan (or two other similar profile young players) and then moved on those 5 players in Jan/summer.
Then bring in a LB + CB + RB with the funds of those 5 sales.
We'd be actually building a long term foundation and removing alot of our problens in two windows.