Mate, none of these other players you are listing were good enough to play for us at the time and if you’d asked fans at the start of the season, the majority wouldn’t have wanted them in our squad, let alone our starting XI.
Lavia is a sick note, Frimpong is a wingback who wouldn’t suit our system and Rogers looks great when he has space to run at players but hasn’t shown any evidence that he would cope with the kind of low block we face game in game out.
That doesn’t even account for the fact that they’ve now had experience (at teams worse than ours) in senior football that has made them better players than they were when they played for us. Would you have played Lavia instead of Rodri in one of our PL winning seasons? Or Rogers instead of Foden?
I’m all for giving youth a chance if they’re good enough and we’ve seen Pep do it. He’s done it with Foden, Palmer, Bobb and Lewis because he felt they were good enough to be given those opportunities at the highest level