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I think you could add a few more to that list if you were judging our players compared to those of Man City, Chelsea or Liverpool. Not sure Dier or Skipp (yet) would get into their squads - never mind their starting elevens. Either way I completely agree - that's an awful lot of players! We also tend to miss out badly in the TW and many other teams contain players we could have done with getting over the line.IMO, in order to actually be able to compete for trophies. We need to upgrade the following players in our starting 11:
Davies
Winks
Sanchez
Royal
Reguilon (arguable)
PEH (arguable)
Lucas (arguable)
Hopefully, Kulusevski and Bentancur can address RW and CM. But still, that's a lot of work to do in the summer.
Apart from Romero I'm not sure we've really beaten another club to a signature / decent signing. In addition to all the players we've missed out on over the last few years, watching Walker-Peters and comparing him to Royal is getting on my nerves. If we really won't spend the money, I am still perplexed as to why we won't instead turn into the Dortmund or RB team - attract the next Bellinghams Haalands and Sanchos of this world. Spend money on the best youth coaches and youth players. Accept that we may not always finish in the top four every season but at least be a really entertaining, young team of mostly under 25s.