Squad Filler

We all know our first choice 11.

Bar a striker and perhaps another defender and midfielder I really don't see massive changes to our first team whether it's now or in the summer.

It's a squad game now.

Ange has said as much:

“If we want to get to where we want to, then I compare us to the other clubs that we want to try and challenge. They’ve got big squads. They’ve got some pretty good players not starting. I look at it every week when they make substitutions. That’s where we’ve got to get to.

“Whether that’s Bryan or Pierre who maybe feel they should be playing more, if they made a decision that ‘I need to go somewhere else to play’, I’m going to replace them with somebody who is going to be a good enough player to play in the Premier League but maybe won’t start, because you need that."


The telling line is that he says "but maybe won't start".

My question is do you think our first 11 is definitely good enough to win the league ? Or is this still too conservative a mentality from the board to win and Ange is more or less saying as much?