Do you honestly expect us to add 4/5/6 youth players to the squad in one season and then have to rely on them? Thats just never going to be the reality of a team like ours, especially as the talented youngsters coming through: Boga, Christensen, Loftus-Cheek, Solanke, Brown are all 17/18 atm with a couple of them a bit older - Bamford 21~, Ake 20~
Theres nothing ridiculous about what I've written, despite having a decent number of players in our first team, its clearly Jose trusts very few of them, in which case they're worthless to us and just using up squad spaces and wages that could be used on other players, Schurrle and Salah can barely get on the bench let alone start for example.
Realistically, we will add one or two to the squad in a season whilst others get loaned up to train up and get match practise, its a shame that some of our lads that got good loans didn't get played, particularly Chalobah and Kalas but hopefully they will get the chance to kick on now.
The other thing is, we have to meet Uefa requirements for players trained in the country, 4 at the club below 21 and 8 trained in England, I think, I'm not 100% sure how our squad splits up but once JT retires we will be very left short in this area but as it stands right now its not a huge problem.
We will replace Cech this summer with an English keeper, perhaps we will go back for John Ruddy or Jack Butland who we both tried to sign before or find another keeper but I'm content with how things are shaping up at the moment, as I said, you're being unrealistic if you just expect a whole load of youngsters to get thrown into the first team.
