Commisso hates us. There’s no way we’re getting Vlahovic unless the player puts his foot down for a move.
Agree midfield is the priority. We need a box to box like Frattesi and someone who can understudy the Brozovic role (it shouldn’t be Agoume). Gagliardini can do his usual whatever while he’s still here.
Then the left back situation needs to be addressed. Perisic renewal or Kostic seem the most obvious solutions. Probably makes more sense to go for Kostic than give Ivan a big contract.
Then we need another quality cb for the rotation. Or 2 if De Vrij leaves (Bremer, Ginter).
Then we get to the attack. Sanchez obviously costs too much and can’t be relied on physically. We would be losing a big creative spark. In a perfect world we could find someone like that, but I’m not thrilled about our prospects. Raspadori is the first name that comes to mind but it’s pretty obvious he’s still too raw to be relied on. We could instead try to line up a more true striker to eventually replace Dzeko (Scamacca, Alvarez). This option might make the most sense from a practical perspective right now.
No matter how you shake it— it’s gonna be a busy summer. I’m with Uni in that it’s absurd we haven’t seen even one big investment after the big sales we made last summer. But at the same time; we haven’t exactly been balancing the books in previous years and we suddenly hit an economic crisis… hopefully we seen at least one sizable investment in the near future.