Rammy Blue
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tolmie's hairdoo said:Rammy Blue said:tolmie's hairdoo said:I don't think our quality reaches down lower than the first 14 or 15 players of this current squad make up.
The most obvious thing for me is that Pellegrini and City are trying to establish a style of play from the youngsters right through to the first team.
But the team is unrecognisable in general play when the manager does attempt to utilise and rotate.
The quality of our starting eleven is such that is just exposes above average or below average players.
Not their fault, a result of a poor spending policy from previous years and the evolution taking place.
It's incredible though that through all the squad investment we have made over the last 3 or 4 years we are still a good 6/7 players short from having a good enough squad.
I suppose it shows that buying sicknotes doesn't help.
I agree, but it's the ending of a five-year cycle and the starting of a new one.
I fear we are going to run out of steam and luck if we continue to rely on players who come in and can't pick up the slack.
Rodwell, Garcia, Sinclair, Jovetic - that's £55m right there, which is just scary.
I don't see what we lose trying to recruit this window? If nothing else, we get upgrades and they are bang on it for the start of next season.
Chelsea's first eleven is a couple of yards down on us but their deeper squad quality is far superior for me.
I agree about Chelsea, I'd say Arsenal is a similar situation as well.
With regards recruiting I suppose it depends how Txiki has been looking at things. Is he trying to find upgrades on first team players or has he been doing the correct scouting on squad fillers? We definitely need a couple of players, maybe we'll use the loan system to flesh out the squad. Be nice if we could shift a couple of the deadwood as well.