Maguire was a poor choice of signing, he’s not a bad player as such but massively overrated. No team is going to be successful when Maguire is your main CB. He needs a solid CB with pace alongside him to have a hope of keeping clean sheets. That £80 million could have been spent on a far better CB or other areas of the pitch.
Wan Bissaka is a very good signing one of the best out and out defenders in the league tbf.
A lot gets made of him not having a great squad to work with (and it isn’t tbf) but neither do Chelsea or Arsenal but they are still way ahead of them.
I honestly don’t think there is anyone who can get them near to competing with City or Liverpool. Pep and Klopp are so far ahead of all the other managers in the world Sarri is probably the only other manager who gets near to them (and he won’t leave Juventus to go there). Ten Haag who manages Ajax will go on to be a top class manager but I doubt they will appoint him.
They will probably appoint either Pochetinno or Allegri. The funny thing is Pochetinno would have to spend at least £200 million just to build a squad as good as his Tottenham one and he couldn’t get that team anywhere near challenging City and Liverpool and hasn’t won a trophy.
Allegri is a very good manager tbf but again would have to spend £200 million plus to be a side as good as his Juventus one.
Both would get them into the top 4, Allegri would probably get them into the top 3 but neither manager has ever really proven themselves against the elite managers/teams so they won’t win the title which suits me just fine