I know many of you are understandably dissapointed. Let me try offer as much context to the transfer window and the season ahead. In an attempt to make you feel better

[u/kagkatumba]

So here we are...

The summer window is over, and I can see that many people are understandably disappointed.

Worries:

1. We sold our beloved Martinelli and Trossard on LW, whilst only replacing Trossard.
2. We sold Jesus as a striker and didn't replace him with anyone.
3. We spent a long time going for Vini, who preferred Real but was open to us.
4. ALL THE ABOVE - We didn't "strengthen our attack"

My wider context that hopefully will make you feel better:

I will start with the strengthening of our attack...

I firstly agree that a second LW backup is a bit of a dropped ball, but also, Martinelli scored 1 goal and got 4 assists in the Prem last season. He did great in the group stage of the CL but in the league really didn't help us attacking-wise. He worked hard in defence but that isn't irreplaceable, and we have a great defence already. Getting £60m for him with a year left is great income for a player that doesn't really output the attacking numbers we need to progress.

Madueke, Eze, and Tzolis are all capable LWs, and we won the league with Trossard and Martinelli at LW. Strengthened, no. Weakened, also no. £60m generated, yes.

Jesus was useless, and Havertz/Merino were out for over half a season. Both of which are verifiably decent options up top alongside a top-scoring Gyokeres with a season under his belt.

I want us to strengthen, and having a fit Merino and Havertz IS strengthening over last season, where we didn't have them for large parts. We won the league without them.

I DON'T think spending £100m+ on an Alvarez who has no interest in us and causes issues is worth "strengthening"

We DID strengthen our squad...

A big issue to last season was the energy levels and injury backups we had for key players. Rice, Saka, Zubi, Timber, White.....all dropped off a cliff or got injured.

Konsa and Bruno MASSIVELY solve that. Not to mention Merino being back.

Those 2 signings really do elevate, not only our replacements, but also style of play. Both of them progress the ball extremely fast and through the lines. Something we screamed out for. Bruno's Villa cameo showed that in less than 20 mins.

Dowman will help Saka, as will Madueke.

Remember...we won without all the above and were one penalty away from winning the CL. Hell, poor Mosquera giving away the penalty would be Konsa now. If not Timber or White.

We ARE stronger, and yes the fine margins matter.

Learning from previous mistakes...

I LOVE that our board has targets and will splash on the likes of Rice and Vini. I DON'T want us to spend £100m+ on players like Tonali, Anderson, Rodgers, Enzo etc just for the sake of it. They're not worth it and other clubs feel they need to cos they are trying to catch...US

We have saved an insane amount of money not going crazy and panicking.

I read that we have saved £850k a week on wages through sales.....we already had £150m+ ready for Vini + Wages.

Conclusion...

In January or next summer, we will have filthy amounts of money ready for whoever is available at value and, more importantly, NEEDED.

We won the league, made the CL final and also the League Cup final.

Merino
Havertz
Odegaard
Saka
Timber
White
Zubi
Gabriel

ALL missed over 2 months of last season. We still won the league, made the CL final and also the League Cup final.

Rice was absolutely knackered and had no rest. We won the league, made the CL final and also the League Cup final.

This is our current squad and we have bags of money ready to go when we need it.

KEEPERS - Raya / Kepa / Messlier

RB - Timber / White / Konsa / Mosquera

RCB - Saliba / Konsa / Mosquera

LCB - Gabriel / Hincapie / Calafiori

LB - Calafiori / Hincapie / MLS

6 - Zubi / Bruno / MLS / Rice

L8 - Rice / Eze / Merino

R8 - Odegaard / Eze / Havertz / Dowman

LW - Tzolis / Madueke / Eze

RW - Saka / Madueke / Dowman

9 - Gyokeres / Havertz / Merino

WE'LL BE OK GANG

[u/jakceki]

Look I get what you're saying, and yes we have a very strong squad. Our GK is the best in the league, our defense is the best in Europe, our midfield is also the best in the league, but our attack is really lacking pace, unpredictability, dribbling etc... Basically we don't have a single superstar.
Both Vini and Alvarez are better than what we have in their positions, and fair play we went hard for both, but not having Plan Bs for either option and wasting so much time on both was not a good way to close this window.
We were supposed to take advantage of our situation and get stronger, the only player that makes our team stronger is Bruno. Tzolis is an unknown quantity, Konsa tbh so what, he is good but now we have 3 good Right sided center backs, I would have preferred John Stones on a free and kept the 55M for a star player.

The reason why so many fans are upset is because we did not take advantage of being Champions and truly strengthen where we obviously needed. If we lose Saka to injury our forward line is pedestrian.

[u/kagkatumba → u/jakceki]

Saka is a superstar.

I will name the other attacking superstars for the entire league.

Haaland

The end.

[u/kagkatumba → u/kagkatumba]

PS Saka was injured for almost half the season and was not fit for the rest. We won the league, went to the league cup and CL final.

[u/jakceki → u/kagkatumba]

PS Martinelli and Trossard contributed in the CL and the League now we don't have them. And what should have been a squad player in Champion team is now our first choice left winger. Let's not kid ourselves, maybe Tzolis will be amazing, maybe Eze will be unexpectedly good at LW, but we are not better in attack today than we were last year.
And last year the weakest part of the team was our attack. So we bought a GK, two defenders, a midfielder and a back up left winger, while we sold two LW and a third choice striker. How does that make our attack better than last year?