If you don’t manage minutes and effort it eventually catches up with you. It’s easy for the big turnover clubs with large squads to manage, for us, we’ve got to be careful and our lower tempo almost continental style is the way to do it. The benefit will be felt when we’re still strong in the title run in and challenging for European Glory.
Not disagreeing with your point, but I think we have decent strength and should be able to manage the players’ minutes.
Mings, Pau, Digne, Buendia, Malen, and Barkley are senior pros that weren’t selected yesterday. Bogarde looks decent and needs minutes. There’s a risk we will become stretched for attacking players as Guessand, Sancho, and Elliot are underwhelming, but even here we can repurpose Barkley and Tielemans to add some depth.
