nah I get it, but they've still invested ~200m net last summer. We can talk about whether they should have invested the Antony money differently (especially since he has been pretty underwhelming for the most part), but then we'd all clamor for a right winger. It was always going to take time to rebuild this, especially because you have to make up for years and years of bad squad management. We need a striker, we need a midfielder, we need squad depth, and that after said 200m net investment last summer (and most of those transfers actually killing it).
and again, those upcoming two games is where you rest Eriksen and so on. Fred has actually been vastly improved under ten Hag, he can surely manage Reading and Nottingham. If there's a youngster in midfield getting minutes, it'll probably be Kobbie Mainoo, who has made the bench a few times already ... Hannibal is out on loan at Birmingham.
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