My expectations:
The first half of the season is going to be extremely rough, we will sit tight around 4th-5th but not look convincing at all. In December when the market opens again we are going to overspend on at least 2 players that we should have done this summer because we will be in such a frustrating situation. Injuries, again will pile up.
After the break we will come back playing in less competitions and this will help us. We will get CL qualification spot but we will come no where close to competing with Inter, Milan and even Roma I am afraid. We built a young defense which inevitably is going to make mistakes, our midfield is going to take time to click as long as we can keep it injury free, and our attack will be impotent with the trash we have earning pay checks to not score goals. That's our weakest spot in the team and everyone hailed it last year as the strongest. Well, we sold Diego, Trez, Amauri sucks, IQ is injured all the time and now as always we expect a 36 yr old DP to carry the team. We have successfully made our team less likely to score goals and that is going to hurt us.
But there is always next year to build for and I think that is what the club is doing to get their budget in order. We have a lot of new young players with potential and now we just need to pray that their first season under their belts goes well...well enough to get us in the top 4.