You got to remember that we over achieved in our first season in PL. Our formation was an advantage as other teams had not come across the overlapping centre halves. Second season we were figured out plus a few injuries. Also Fleck and Norwood are on the wane. Hence the need for reinforcements.I think there is something more than just a loss of confidence or relegation hangover, nothing changed under Hecky, nothing has changed under Slav, despite the usual everyone has a clean slate etc
Up front we are like a UN peace keeping force...can't fire a shot....we dont have an effective pairing and each player has limitations.The older ones are past it. And the younger ones are showing nothing.
It's like the perfect storm.
Slav is trying to play differently but unless reinforcements arrive it's going to be mid table at the very best.