On an evening like today, looking at the game as a whole rather than at the score, I believe we cannot deny that we face a major rebuild (although for the record, I think we still have a decent chance to finish 5th or even 4th). Anyway. The situation is 'better' than in March, because now Jose is gone, so we can really begin with a more or less clean slate. There are a few players who I hope are still part of the squad in, say, two years time: Kane, Son, Reguilon, Skipp, Sessegnon, Tanganga, probably Rodon. And a few question marks: Hojbjerg, NDombele, Moura, perhaps Lo Celso and Lloris. I don't think the rest are good enough, or young enough. And we need someone with an idea, a vision - whether that's a DoF or a top manager like Poch - because spending 40m on Sanchez, 30m on Sissoko, 30m on Lamela, 53m on NDombele, 60m (?) on Lo Celso once again simply isn't good enough.
As I see it there are two types of rebuilds. Even though I think Poch in 2014/15 did better than Redknapp in 2009/10 in almost every department, he was a little lucky with Kane coming through, and with Eriksen, Dembele and Vertonghen already on the books. What Levy and Redknapp did well was to make one signature signing (Modric) and one really fluky one (VDV) who together with Bale galvanised us. I hope that is the road we will follow this summer: one or maybe two marquee signings (a CB and Sabitzer perhaps?), and hoping that Skipp will hit the ground running and Hojbjerg or NDombele (or both) will come good. That would be a relatively painless (as in: only two season) rebuild. As I said in another thread, I think we need a manager with a reputation to survive the storms of next season, i.e. not Parker or Mason.
