Is Barry really suspended for 3? I think that may be a real boon. We have to go with two in the middle, McCarthy or Besic and Gibson. Without Barry available Roberto will have to leave one of his CMs on the bench, so no more 3 DMs. We have to play with two natural wide men, one on each wing. Naismith and Barkley can only play behind Lukaku. I'm not sure either should play (or at least start). It should be Kone and Lukaku up top (at least in some games). It has to be Joel back in goal, the back 4 need him. I don't know what happened to them over the last year but they've been devastated and seem to have lost confidence in Tim. I'm willing to bet that 90% of this board agrees with at least 3/5 of my suggestions. If a self selected set of enthusiasts can see this and yet the multimillionaire manager fails to see it then the door it is for him and the drop it should be for us.
But, our most likely salvation isn't that route, but the utterly atrocious teams below us. QPR, Burnley and Leicester are even worse than us.
It won't be glorious, entertaining or even respectable but I'd wager we'll be in the Premier League come August.