Again, it seems that a simple point, in this part of the forum, needs repeating over & over.
I am not suggesting replacing Kolarov with a 17 year old, indeed I SPELLED OUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS THAT I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT KIDS STARTING GAMES.
I am (once again with great difficulty) trying to make the point that our first team squad is OFTEN half filled with players filling in positions who are most definitely a RISK, or not 'good enough' all the criticisms that are levelled at kids.
Yet playing Kolarov for 20 games at cb, a position where one mistake maybe costs us the game is considered routine, but giving Brandon Barker ten minutes off the bench as a winger v Bournemouth etc is considered by many on here, to be some sort of title threatening move.
It's bollocks.
The biggest 'risks' we have been taking year after year, is playing inferior squad players as key starting members of the team or important subs & far outweighs any 'risk' it would have been, to give a kid ten minutes out wide.