Seeing as were likely to get rid of a load of the squad this summer and won’t get as many in due to our PSR situation no European football means we can work with a smaller squad and not fear burning the players out, we’d play I think a maximum of 50 games next season if we got to the final of both cups as well as our league games.
Realistically we’re looking at getting rid of AWB, Varane, Lindelof, Evans, Williams, Fernandez, Casemiro, Eriksen, VDB, Hannibal, Pellestri, Sancho, Greenwood and Martial which is half our squad and I’d be surprised if we brought in more than a right back, two centre backs, a left back, a defensive midfielder, a central midfielder, a right winger and a striker and even that’s unlikely.
We have to be realistic that we’re not going to challenge for trophies next season as this summer and next season is the big Ineos club reset, Ratcliffe said himself that he’s looking at 3 years to start challenging properly for the big prizes. We should look at the positives in no European football with the main one meaning our players are fresh and we can try to integrate some of the kids into the squad.