I think we had plans but without unlimited funds it's impossible to mitigate for everything. In the last 18 months we've lost Bissouma, MacAllister, Caicedo and Mwepu. We also lost Moder to a massive injury. That's an awful lot to mitigate. man city can offer unlimited wages and fees, poach...
We also had Lamptey, Gross, Milner, Igor as cover and youngsters. Is it reasonable use of limited budget to mitigate that nearly all will be injured. And how to we persuade a player good enough to join who will know they're only back up?