Some Premier League clubs are motoring through their recruitment while others move at glacial speed. Here are the top 10 areas still in need of attention…
10) Manchester City: left-back
City were English football’s best team last season and they’ve added one of the world’s best centre-forwards and an England midfielder. The rest of the Premier League is already screwed.
But Pep Guardiola is nothing if not a perfectionist and the City boss rarely misses a chance to splurge on a full-back, especially when he has just cause. At left-back, his options are extremely thin, with only Oleksandr Zinchenko a specialist (ish) and the Ukrainian could well move this summer for first-team football, perhaps even in his originally preferred position of central midfield.
City have been linked with a few left-backs, most heavily with Brighton’s Marc Cucurella. Which is a move we’d absolutely love to see, even if it puts City even further out of reach.
9) Leicester: centre-back
We’re getting to the stage where Leicester just need someone, anyone through the door to kickstart a summer which Brendan Rodgers hoped would see the Foxes rediscover their ‘hunger’ after a hugely disappointing season.
They could do that in a few areas. Rodgers needs some spark in his midfield, especially if Arsenal or anyone else comes for Youri Tielemans, and there is still a void on the right of their attack. But the centre of Rodgers defence seems most ripe for improvement.
One of Leicester’s biggest and most obvious weaknesses last season was their woeful inability to defend set-pieces. Rodgers put that down to individual lapses rather than a tactical flaw – as you might expect – but there wasn’t a centre-back he could rely on for form and fitness.
Perhaps they are waiting to sell Tielemans so they can fund their recruitment, but it is all too quiet at Leicester right now.
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8) Wolves: centre-forward
It is a conflicting time to be a Wolves fan. After a rotten run-in sent the Molineux men into the summer in a sulk, it was thought that Bruno Lage needed signings to lift the mood.
Joao Moutinho’s scribble on another one-year deal will have helped and it looks increasingly likely that Ruben Neves will stay for at least another year, but retaining the midfield pair only leaves Wolves where they were. Which is no bad place – the lowest they’ve finished in four years back in the top…
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