With no European football your games are evenly spaced out, so you should be OK with fatigue.
I wonder if they will go big again in the summer, due to European football being a big possibility.
It's already full. Don't think they'll be holding back places for non-priority - as far as I'm aware that's only ever happened once, for Glastonbury, and that was a long time ago.
We seem to look like that in about 3/5 games, Tonali and Bruno giving both a lot of bite and a lot of quality in midfield, with some serious pace up front from Isak/Gordon/Murphy and some nice touches from them. Then we'll just have a game where we look low on energy, particularly from the full-backs and it's flat but we usually nick a result from some moment of magic, and sometimes we'll have a game where we look ponderous in defense on top of that.
I think we've probably got 6-7 Champions League quality players, but our depth - particularly in the front 3 - is really lacking.
I also want to highlight how much better we look when both Botman and Schar are on the pitch. Botman is comfortably our best defender positionally, with a lot of strength to him as well. Schar complements him nicely having a bit more pace and a deft touch, and a willingness to roam or man-mark. The back 5 with Schar in a man-mark/sweeper role was interesting, particularly as that compensated for Botman/Burn being potentially sluggish when together. I rate them both but I get worried by the pairing.
I do wonder what's happened with our funding/PSR. Supposedly we could spend £60m on Guehi in the summer, but that's now 3 consecutive windows with basically no incoming players. We sold for another £30m this window, but we desperately need another forward, with Wilson/Barnes seemingly perma-crocked, and Miggy now sold, there's basically no back-up at all. Willock and Joelinton have both played wide-left sometimes, but Willock's been a lot more inconsistent this seaosn, and Joelinton is now out for several weeks and is better in midfield anyway.
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