I honestly think we need just 3 quality players, we can't keep buying 5,6,7 players a year and wonder why we take ages to look like a coherent team. Time to start buying quality not quantity, we don't need squad fillers, we need players who are better than what we have now as daft and simple as it sounds.
Shift on the deadwood and hopefully by the end of 21 season all the Koemaggedon stuff is gone. Whatever happens, I think we will see a better squad take shape.
I get what you're saying, but I think it's putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5.
We haven't really looked like a coherent team this season, but realistically speaking, only 4 new players have been involved. Gbamin and Lossl have played about 90 minutes in total between them, so we can't really say that they've had any effect on the team whatsoever. Gomes was already here last year so there's no disruption there. That leaves Sidibe, who was bedded in very slowly (he didn't play his first game until mid October), Kean, who has made about 4 starts all season, and Iwobi and Delph, who I would guess have both played less than half our games. In short, we don't look like a coherent team because we're not very good, not because we signed too many players.
I'd say we need a centre half, a right back (if Kenny isn't seen as the answer), a central midfielder who can actually play football, and a right winger. That's to effectively go straight into the team. The issue then is that you've got Baines probably going, so you need to bring a left back in. You've also got a situation where players may not appreciate being pushed further down the pecking the order by the newcomers (Keane, Schneiderlin, Davies, Sigurdsson etc) who it may make sense to move on. You then have to look at the possibility of replacing them too. That's without taking into account players you might not
want to sell but who decide that they don't want to be here anymore.
The ideal scenario is to not do a huge amount of business every summer, there's no argument there. The issue is that before that can happen you need to be in a position where the majority of your squad is good enough. We're not there yet in my opinion.