- Nov 15, 2018
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Very good points.I still feel people are going way over the top about how good our current squad is! On paper it is a very good and strong squad. However in a reality there are still a lot of flaws and weakness in it.
We have the usual cast of Aurier, Winks, Sissoko,all of whom have massive flaws and appear to have big weakness mentality wise and to be honest just aren’t good enough for a team who are supposedly aiming to win trophies/ finish in the top 4. Certainly none of them should be playing regularly as they are.
Then throw in players like Lamela (who I am a fully paid up member of his fan club), Moura, Bergwijn again very good players but all of them seem to have flaws and are very streaky players. When they are good they are good! However equally when they are bad they very bad. Look at Moura he has had one good game in 12 months the rest of the time he has been woeful! How he gets in the starting line up as regularly as he does I have no idea. Yes is a hard worker but as I say over nearly the last 12 months he has been woeful Barring that one game against LASK.
Then we get on to players like Dele, Bale (early days yet let’s give him time to regain fitness) Dier, Sanchez, Toby. There has to be big question marks about these players in some cases are they going to be good as they can be/ in others are they past there best.
As I say on paper it’s very good squad. But personally I feel when you actually break it down and analysis it look at individual players performances over past couple of season you can see there is a lot of question marks about a lot of the players in our squad. Performances like last night really don’t help settle any of those question marks.
I would say equally though it Is clear that there were too many changes to last nights team. Given we had three players coming back from injury and majority of the rest of the starting line up who hadn’t played in weeks. Maybe if jose had made only 5/6 changes then we might have seen a different performance.
I think aside from a top class CB and DM its pretty hard to improve the squad. Mabye the back-up attacking players could produce goals and assists a little more often?
Agree Aurier, Winks, Sissoko are all quite average but as squad players they're better than most other teams alternatives.
Where do you feel the weaknesses are compared to say peak Poch or Redknapp squads both of which etiher were part of title challenges or nearly were and should've been.