It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[WRicko]

Pretty much the same depth as Arsenal & Liverpool with better quality

Injuries are a risk ofr anyone, but the days if having 2 world class players for each position isn't a thing anymore

No wonder all the top teams are having smaller squads with versatile and quality players

Have you got the stats to back that up ? We have more games now

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Txiki bid for Mainoo

What the fuck for? He’s light years away from being good enough for us.

 

[trueblue1972]

Txiki bid for Mainoo

Sweet jesus

 

[pudge]

What the fuck for? He’s light years away from being good enough for us.

Listen, there's more chance I bed Jessica Alba tonight and we all hate every **** that wears that shirt but he is, annoyingly, a rather good player

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

I don’t think he is but only time will tell.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Brighton signing another striker

That is odd when they already have Joao Pedro, Welbeck, Ferguson, Rutter and Enciso to play upfront (and no European football).

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

I wouldn't be surprised if we did something tomorrow. Not our usual style, but frankly the whole summer has been slightly strange.

Truth is, I don't think even Pep and Txiki know for sure. Wait and see. Lots of opportunities out there.

 

[Fordyboy46]

That is odd when they already have Joao Pedro, Welbeck, Ferguson, Rutter and Enciso to play upfront (and no European football).

You watch the rags be in for Ferguson, or Arsenal and Chelsea

 

[ninjamonkey]

If Bobb is back for January I would rather he got any minutes than someone we buy as contingency in fairness he deserves the opportunity & his injury was from timing was really unlucky. Better the injury does not stunt his development for a full season hopefully he can get good minutes from January onwards. We just need to ensure Haaland stays fit until Oscar is back which means using him sensibly & getting him off in games already won

Does Bobb deserve to be forced to play out of position when he's shown he's more than capable of getting minutes for us in his natural position?

Pretty much the same depth as Arsenal & Liverpool with better quality

Injuries are a risk ofr anyone, but the days if having 2 world class players for each position isn't a thing anymore

No wonder all the top teams are having smaller squads with versatile and quality players

Liverpool have a full 25 man squad. 3 keepers. 9 defenders, 7 midfielders 6 forwards, It couldn't be any bigger.

Arsenal have 24. I'm going to assume they replace ramsdale if they let him go to have 3 keepers, then 9 defenders, 6 midfielders and 6 forwards. They're 1 shy of a full compliment and that's because they haven't got 4 club trained players. I suppose you could include that young midfielder they're raving about to make it the full 25 man squad but either way it's full.

We have 23. 3 keepers, 7 defenders. 8 midfielders and 5 forwards (not that the breakdown matters but for the purposes of this I've classed Lewis as a defender with the other 6, the wingers doku, savinho, grealish and bobb as forwards alongside haaland and the rest midfielders)

That's 2 less than Liverpool, 1 less than Arsenal and theyre open spots too not homegrownor club trained restricted. I've classed Rico, mcatee and Bobb alongside foden as club trained regardless of whether they're actually required to be registered or not due to age.

Both the clubs you mentioned have filled their squad allocation as much as the availability of club trained players to them will allow, Whereas we have 2 free spots that we seemingly are chosing to leave vacant unless we do something tomorrow. That's a substantial difference and not pretty much the same.

 

[JewelZee]

Or just revert to a front 3 from Grealish, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo & Foden which won the league with 90 odd points.

3 years ago. Not winning the Prem this season if that were the front 5. Defo not winning the CL like that either...