We’ve all been there. When you everyone but the people in charge can see the needs of the team you support. As an Arsenal fan, I have experienced this deadening pain for more than a decade. Even now, they still haven’t signed a half-decent centre-back.
In team building, addressing needs and improving the weaknesses of the starting XI and squad is one of the key aspects of managing a successful offseason. Obviously, selling players, shuffling contracts, dealing with agents, coaches and making plans for the coming year are all important tasks to be completed.
But many of the decisions that are made tend to work towards one goal: fixing the problems that undermined the team the previous year.