When you are competing at the highest level and you need to completely change the formation and the tactical roles of your starters, without losing a season to give them time to adapt, you cant have the core elements of the new system on 31august.
At least Conte doesnt work that way.
So they have discussed it with out transfer manager, has set our priority targets some months ago and all that remained was to complete those deals.
There was an extra wait perhaps due to wc, but the negotiation happened, the players and teams came to agreament, only a complete useless manager would manage to fail from here...
But our boy Beppe, did managed to find a way once again, well that was a little too much for Conte this time though and the board has it fault if they have preferred Marotta over Conte!