Depth of our squad

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blue76 said:
Just looking at the article on footy365 and they are looking at all the first team players in the Premiership who haven't made the bench yet.

Scroll down to Everton for the true depth we have in our squad.

http://www.football365.com/f365-features/9956788/PL-Players-Not-Even-On-The-Bench...
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I think that's because they are all injured.

But I take your point. The fact that we are playing a 19 year old CB in the left back position against the future champions tells us how strong our bench is. There are some huge gaps in cover.
 

Adversus said:
I think that's because they are all injured.

But I take your point. The fact that we are playing a 19 year old CB in the left back position against the future champions tells us how strong our bench is. There are some huge gaps in cover.
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Think that's more to do with luck than anything though. Baines is injured, Oviedo was injured, Garbutt was injured. Who are Chelsea, Man United and Arsenal's 3rd and 4th choice left backs? I'm sure they'd have to do the same.

Look at Arsenal's second string defence the other night. They were terrible in the first half.
 
Adversus said:
I think that's because they are all injured.

But I take your point. The fact that we are playing a 19 year old CB in the left back position against the future champions tells us how strong our bench is. There are some huge gaps in cover.
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Two senior left backs are injured, the England under 21 left back is injured, as is the young centre back who can play left back. That Browning had to play there tells us bugger all about our depth. Are you saying we should have 5 players in every position just in case?
 
blue76 said:
It's true we have been unlucky with injuries. We were down to the 5th choice left back for the second half against City.
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Quoting myself, but actually possibly the 6th choice as I'd rather Barry play there instead of Browning.
 

Adversus said:
I think that's because they are all injured.

But I take your point. The fact that we are playing a 19 year old CB in the left back position against the future champions tells us how strong our bench is. There are some huge gaps in cover.
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This list actually specifies the uninjured players who haven't featured. Basically it lists players who are out of favour at various clubs. We are so threadbare that we cannot afford such luxuries. Even though Kevin Mirallas seems to have done something to annoy RM. Last season we would probably only had Distin who would feature here. People say we need three players before the window shuts, i'd argue that we need at least five.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Two senior left backs are injured, the England under 21 left back is injured, as is the young centre back who can play left back. That Browning had to play there tells us bugger all about our depth. Are you saying we should have 5 players in every position just in case?
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Kenwright out, Bruce in!
 
Chozz said:
This list actually specifies the uninjured players who haven't featured. Basically it lists players who are out of favour at various clubs. We are so threadbare that we cannot afford such luxuries. Even though Kevin Mirallas seems to have done something to annoy RM. Last season we would probably only had Distin who would feature here. People say we need three players before the window shuts, i'd argue that we need at least five.
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If we didn't have so many sick notes we would be fine but realistically we can't increase the size of our squad before binning some of them. Although it doesn't help when Martinez gives them new contracts.
 
Is this definitely as bad as it seems? How many more players do Arsenal, for example, have in their squad? I'm just thinking maybe we have a particularly bad injury problem rather than a depth one (apart from at centre back). Quality of depth, on the other hand, is another issue...
 
Quite a few are academy players and won't ever make an appearance but we really shouldn't have depth issues with a squad this size. Unfortunately there a few that are very injury prone.
2015/16 squad numbers in full
1. Joel Robles
2. Tony Hibbert
3. Leighton Baines
4. Darron Gibson
5. John Stones
6. Phil Jagielka
7. Aiden McGeady
8. Bryan Oviedo
9. Arouna Kone
10. Romelu Lukaku
11. Kevin Mirallas
12. Aaron Lennon
14. Steven Naismith
15. Tom Cleverley
16. James McCarthy
17. Muhamed Besic
18. Gareth Barry
19. Gerard Deulofeu
20. Ross Barkley
21. Leon Osman
22. Steven Pienaar
23. Seamus Coleman
24. Tim Howard
25. Ramiro Funes Mori
27. Tyias Browning
28. Leandro Rodriguez
29. Luke Garbutt
30. Mason Holgate
32. Brendan Galloway
35. Conor McAleny
36. Jindrich Stanek
38. Matthew Pennington
39. Conor Grant
40. Sam Byrne
42. Ryan Ledson
43. Jonjoe Kenny
45. Russell Griffiths
46. Joe Williams
48. Courtney Duffus
49. Antonee Robinson
50. Gethin Jones
51. Kieran Dowell
52. Liam Walsh
53. David Henen
54. Connor Hunt
55. Francisco Junior
56. Mateusz Hewelt
 

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