16. Aston Villa
Villa achieved their main summer objective of keeping star striker Christian Benteke but boss Paul Lambert went out of his way to uphold a reputation for signing relative unknowns. The Scot spent roughly £20m on eight new players but – forgive our ignorance – we had barely heard of a single one.
Still, we didn’t know much about Benteke until last summer, so Lambert could yet have pulled off eight masterstrokes. Watch this space.
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