It's really poor punditry and an easy way of shortening a feature to just say we'll struggle, our success will be staying up etc.
It's like they've not even considered who we've brought in, just who we've lost and because of that the players coming in won't have even close to their same impact.
I think we'll be alright. I'd love us to shove it up a lot of these pundits arses this year and show their laziness up. The same pundits come January will probably be recommending Tadic to Liverpool.