And if we're not winning 3-0? we're not going to smash every midtable side every game.
Lets say we line up with the starting 11 today, we've got Foden and DIaz on the bench every game as you say, then we've got Bravo too as the keeper option. We've now got 4 more options and the likes of Mendy,Walker,Fernandinho,Gundogan,Bernardo,Sterling and others to fit in. Who misses out? For balance you'd probably have Fernandinho Walker Mendy and Sterling from that so then the likes of Bernardo and Gundogan don't even make the bench every week. Then what happens when we're not winning 3-0, it's 0-0 and we look completely flat, or we're losing 1-0 from a counter and are struggling to break them down, we rely on Diaz and Foden from the bench to be the sparks to create something?
Said this in the post match thread, If they are kept, which i believe they will be, they'll get cup games, potentially dead rubber champs league group games and maybe make the bench a handful of times when injuries/suspensions are taking their toll. They're great prospects but at the big boys table in a team fighting for titles you have to treat them like any other member of the 1st team squad and ask the question, are they a better option than anybody else available? in the scenario above, that'd be Gundogan and Bernardo, but it could easily be Silva,KDB or a few others, and as good as they've been and look, they're clearly not.
Pep has handled them brilliantly so far, lets just leave him to continue handling them however he see's fit. If they see game time, he clearly believes they're currently good enough or even better than our other options, in which case great, we've got a superb player for nothing who makes us better. But if we don't see them much if at all, it will be because Pep clearly feels we have better options at that time and they'll have to bide their time
