Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images Work still to be done for the Blues ahead of next season We’re already less than a month away from the start of the season, but Manchester City’s squad looks very much the same as it did last season.Kevin de Bruyne, Scott Carson and Kyle Walker (who spent the second half of last season on loan) have all left, with four new bodies through the door in Rayan Cherki, Tijjani Reijnders, Marcus Bettinelli and Rayan Ait-Nouri.All the news ahead of this window would be on cutting down the size of Manchester City’s massive squad. As it is, the squad is in fact two bodies bigger than it was when the Blues faced Fulham on the final day of last season.James McAtee and Jack Grealish are very likely to leave, along with Kalvin Phillips too. But City have 28 more players, none of whom have a concrete link to another club.Ederson is the exception to that rule, with him being heavily linked with a move to Galatasaray. But he would need to be replaced, and with James Trafford by far the most likely candidate in this department, it’d fail to trim the squad down but would solve a different issue.In order to comply with rules regarding registration next season, four non-homegrown players need to leave. Trafford is homegrown, and would mean this number cuts down to three. Photo by Molly Darlington/Getty Images This means the likes of John Stones, Nico O’Reilly, Oscar Bobb and Nathan Ake are more likely to stay than Ilkay Gundogan, Ederson, Mateo Kovacic and Manuel Akanji.Vitor Reis and Claudio Echeverri are the most likely loan candidates. Ederson, Stefan Ortega, Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Stones and McAtee, meanwhile, all see their contracts expire next year, whilst other players - including star names Rodri and Phil Foden, see their contacts run out in 2027.The trimming of the squad is one improvement that needs making, but you can’t help but feel that they’re a bit short in terms of quality in other positions too.The Blues are crying out for a good right back. Rico Lewis has had a poor season and is more suited to playing central midfield, and Matheus Nunes is a serviceable but unspectacular option playing out of position. Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images But the right back market is fairly sparse at the moment. Tino Livramento from Newcastle United is apparently the main target, but his club are almost certainly not willing to sell having seen their stance on another one of their key players in Alexander Isak and his proposed move to Liverpool.Denzel Dumfries could be available, as could Wilfried Singo, but there’s no proper rumours attached to these two. And no other realistic option is a significant upgrade on Lewis or Nunes, and would potentially disrupt long term recruitment.I’ve also personally felt for a while that City are a bit short of quality in the wing areas. Looking in the Premier League and across, with Mohammed Salah, Bukayo Saka, Lamine Yamal, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Michael Olise and Vinicius Junior, it’s fair to say that City don’t have a wide forward of that game changing quality.Omar Marmoush, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Savinho and Oscar Bobb are all very good options, however, and will likely improve both with age and acclimatisation with City’s system.The only upgrade on any of these players on the market at the moment is Real Madrid’s Rodrygo - but as mentioned above, City need to be selling, not buying.It must be difficult, particularly for a new group of coaching staff, to deal with such a big squad, but the new additions have made an impact so far.Kolo Toure, Pep Lijnders and set piece coach James French have already had a visible difference, with the Blues playing in the Club World Cup at a higher tempo, and looking much more potent from set pieces. Photo by Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images On the pitch, Ait-Nouri has slotted right in, Reijnders is a tidy midfielder with plenty of technique and energy and Cherki has shown flashes of potential too.There could be a few more additions this summer, and almost certainly plenty out of the door.But with less than a month before the start of the Premier League season and approximately six weeks before the end of the window, Hugo Viana and co are running out of time.