Does it feel like they’re very quiet on the socials media’s this year? That’s versus the last two years that I’ve been anyway. Does that mean anything?
There's whispers of a possible rebuild in the summer. We would need a long-term successor to Schar given he's in his 30s, maybe an extra CB if we're also thinking of replacing the in-their-30s Burn & Lascelles, further options to support Murphy & Gordon on the flanks, a replacement for Wilson as he's likely to be released at the end of his contract, and for some reason they also seem to be regularly claiming another goalkeeper given Pope and Dubravka are older too.
Dunno also if there might be some cash being kept aside for a St James' renovation/replacement, as has been heavily rumoured in the last month or so.
The balance was there though - Bournemouth felt like the game too far for a largely unchanged team over the previous 2 months, and against Fulham, we seemed to just not have the options to change things when Fulham upped their intensity after the break.
Makes the next two interesting if nothing else, given we won't know how many changes might be deemed the right idea for the cup game at Birmingham on Saturday and then there's the task of talking on Guardiola and the gang in Manchester.
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