NICKS BACK
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SWP is injured, fact out for 5 weeks according to the quality and garbage press.
The problem of the squad and rotation and strength in depth, is that we are not big enough to play this game. Say we go out and buy Bentley for argument sake, is Bentley even on 120,000 a week likely to be prepared to go and sit on the bench when SWP is fit again? Of course not similarly with Lennon or any other world class winger. Bridge has come to us because he has 1) earned good money already, 2) in my opinion and a lot of Chelsea supporters also he is better than Tabloid Cole. But he is certainly not here to going back to playing second fiddle here to Ball should he ever come into a rich vein of form.
The squad only works when you have a situation like at Man Utd whereby they have good experienced back up such as Neville at right back, or as in years gone by Sherringham as back up to Yorke and Cole in his latter years.
Thats why clubs like ours retain the likes of Vassell,
The problem of the squad and rotation and strength in depth, is that we are not big enough to play this game. Say we go out and buy Bentley for argument sake, is Bentley even on 120,000 a week likely to be prepared to go and sit on the bench when SWP is fit again? Of course not similarly with Lennon or any other world class winger. Bridge has come to us because he has 1) earned good money already, 2) in my opinion and a lot of Chelsea supporters also he is better than Tabloid Cole. But he is certainly not here to going back to playing second fiddle here to Ball should he ever come into a rich vein of form.
The squad only works when you have a situation like at Man Utd whereby they have good experienced back up such as Neville at right back, or as in years gone by Sherringham as back up to Yorke and Cole in his latter years.
Thats why clubs like ours retain the likes of Vassell,