Sorry but thats just an excuse. I am not having that in world football literally every position is short of quality that we can buy. Anyway we have a gap that we need to make up if we are serious about winning a league and i expect us to go out there and make it happen.
Personally i would sell one of our attackers or even two and look to recruit a couple, sell a midfielder and look to recruit there and buy a centreback regardless.
But you seem to want us to sign an expensive, bigger name player - which ones do you think are affordable, gettable and an obvious slam dunk in terms of how they'd fit into our team? Like I'm happy to discuss positions and players, I just don't think there are as many obvious targets as there was, for example, last summer.
In attack, I think Olise is maybe the only one I can think of and as I say I doubt he's going to come here to sit on the bench half the season and who knows if his injury problems this season are a one-off. I'm not sold on Kudus at all - I think he's one who looks great but delivers very little. Musiala is class but would be enormously expensive and have pretty much every team in for him if he was available, ditto Wirtz - I don't think either are realistic targets. Players like Bakayoko and Summerville look talented but come with caveats (output in the case of the former, current league in the case of the latter). Players like Leao and Kvaratskhelia look enormously overpriced to me and I'd be incredibly wary of signing an attacker from Serie A for that sort of money.
In midfield, Gumairaes is great but we're not going to pay his release clause and there's strong murmurs City/Arsenal are in for him. I'm also not sure he's the sort of profile we need - we're lacking an athletic ball-winner more than anything else. I can't really think of a single other top-level midfielder, or one on the cusp of it that is realistic for us. Players like Wieffer, Koopemeiners, etc all look more like Europa League level players to me personally.
In defence, players like Inacio and Diomande might be good but they're playing in the Portuguese league so it's hard to tell. I've seen nothing of Willian Pacho. I wonder if we'd revisit Colwill in light of Chelsea's finances, but they'd want stupid money. I'd like to see us target a LB, and Ait Nouri seems an obvious link that would probably be affordable. I've not seen loads of Maatsen but he looks miles better going forward than he does back the way, and I think we'd like someone a bit more balanced.
I'm just not seeing a glut of obvious targets - I think pretty much every name comes with pretty meaty caveats whether its ability, availability, level of current league, value for money, etc.
