The Squad Depth Myth

[Blankomania]

I wish someone would tell the media and the pundits to stop pedalling the myth that we have the best squad deoth in the premier league. This is our second choice midfield:

Navas Garcia Rodwell Milner

Compare this to chelsea:

schurle mikel mata luiz de bruyne

arsenal:

Gnabry rosicky arteta cazorla

tottenham:

lamela capoue sandro holtby towsend

Apart from navas our midfield back ups don't come close

 

[mainemanc1066]

Mentioned this after today's game. Completely agree.

 

[Marvin]

I agree too

Chelsea and Arsenal have a huge pool of midfielders. We don't. We have more forwards but two are injured at the moment.

 

[IWasHere]

I wish someone would tell the media and the pundits to stop pedalling the myth that we have the best squad deoth in the premier league. This is our second choice midfield:

Navas Garcia Rodwell Milner

Compare this to chelsea:

schurle mikel mata luiz de bruyne

arsenal:

Gnabry rosicky arteta cazorla

tottenham:

lamela capoue sandro holtby towsend

Apart from navas our midfield back ups don't come close

they're shite gnarby's overrated, he's average.

lamela hasnt impressed me this season.

the rest i agree

 

[kaz7]

Arsenal have better squad players than we do,although the key for me is mixing with the first 11,fielding so many at the same time doesn't work
I think the Bayern game was a one off

 

[aguero93:20]

I wish someone would tell the media and the pundits to stop pedalling the myth that we have the best squad deoth in the premier league. This is our second choice midfield:

Navas Garcia Rodwell Milner

Compare this to chelsea:

schurle mikel mata luiz de bruyne

arsenal:

Gnabry rosicky arteta cazorla

tottenham:

lamela capoue sandro holtby towsend

Apart from navas our midfield back ups don't come close

they're shite gnarby's overrated, he's average.

lamela hasnt impressed me this season.

the rest i agree

Townsend is overrated and luiz? should have included vinnie, demich and kolarov in ours then.

 

[meeesh]

Don't worry lads.were in the transfer market according to the engineer

 

[SWP's back]

Tell Munich.

 

[IWasHere]

I wish someone would tell the media and the pundits to stop pedalling the myth that we have the best squad deoth in the premier league. This is our second choice midfield:

Navas Garcia Rodwell Milner

Compare this to chelsea:

schurle mikel mata luiz de bruyne

arsenal:

Gnabry rosicky arteta cazorla

tottenham:

lamela capoue sandro holtby towsend

Apart from navas our midfield back ups don't come close

they're shite gnarby's overrated, he's average.

lamela hasnt impressed me this season.

the rest i agree

Townsend is overrated and luiz? should have included vinnie, demich and kolarov in ours then.

true, tbf townsend has only been good for england, not totting ham

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

There is a fine balance when buying players to make up a squad. Most of our second stringers do ok when they are the only player brought in and are surrounded by 10 regular first team players. It's when you mix them all together at the same time. Problem is most of them are big names and big money signings who probably rate themselves higher than most of us rate them and don't see these games as a chance to impress. They probably think they should actually be playing every week. Dzeko springs to mind.....

Currently I would put the under performing Clichy behind Kolorov in the left back pecking order and so today we had our second string goalkeeper playing, a third string right back, a second string CB, a second string LB, 2 second string midfielders and one 2nd string forward.

That is 7 players who for me are not going to start a first team PL match on a regular basis.

That is way too many and it shows every time we do it with the exception of a Munich which I find a difficult one to explain. Maybe this was a game these players actually felt their talents deserved hence the better performance.

Perhaps going forward we should be dangling a carrot to the EDS players in games like this who would be hungry to impress and buy some players going forward who understand that they are the future of the club and may not start every game but will eventually become regulars.

Having said that the players that played today should have been easily good enough to beat a blackburn a 2nd string!

Their performance will have hopefully opened Pellegrini's eyes to the team he needs to put out on Wednesday and in games like this for the rest of the season.