They'll have had plans last summer for PL, they won't all be dead and they'll be updated all the time so they'll have a reasonable idea already I would think.
Suppose we have a budget of around £50m for players because they'll be wages on top of that. What do we do? We get 10 x £5m players rather than one £50m player roughly speaking. The value is still going to be abroad, in the main, if we can find the right players.
Yes, we'll need a whole new defence. It's always the way with promotions, the players are all really happy until they realise that they'll be on the bench all season, if they're not sold back to where they came from to try again!
He only had 6 all year, so highly doubful. Ellis got his first at home under Lampard just last week. It's funny what you can do when you try, now he's jumping like Zebedee!
He is but it's a team job these days, nobody is a manager anymore in the old sense. The no2 is such an essential role to get right so too the head of recruitment/scouting.