Presuming Lukaku goes (and even if he doesn't he seems to have basically retired from actaully participating in football matches), and we don't sign anyone else, where are we going to get enough goals from this season?
I like the direction Ole seems to be going in, if he can actually get it to work in practice, but this is one of a few things that's troubling me. In order to be looking at top four and a half decent chance in the cup competitions, we need to be looking at scoring 100+ goals during the season. We got 85 last year. How many do you think we can realisitically expect with this set of players? We've added no significant goalscorers and basically lost our main striker.
Being really optimistic I can get to this:
Rashford - 20
Martial - 20
Pogba - 15
Sanchez, Mata, Lingard, Greenwood, James, Gomez, etc. betwen them - 40ish
The rest - 15?
That's around 110, but with the problem being it requires pretty much every player to have a good season goal scoring wise, which in reality is really quite unlikely. The likes of Sanchez could just as easily get 0 goals as 10-15. There's no one who's going to get near 30 unless Rashford or Martial have a pretty big breakout season, which again is relying on the unlikely.
I'm not talking about goals needed to win a league, but goals needed to get back in the top four. Maybe we can keep up the style of play we saw for the first few months under Ole, but even so we were often winning games by small margins.
Hopefully something surprising happens and one or two really step up.
Goals.