Shocking lack of depth and what can we play in big games?

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

We have our depth, players like Cahill, Willian, Oscar and Fabregas (partly) should be our depth while we should be looking for starting quality in CB, CM (bigger games) and RW. 3 players away from having very good first XI and squad depth.

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

What i like on here is that at least all or almost all and it's not just me recognise that there is all of a sudden there some serious serious problems in the camp, wether it's Jose, the squad, or even Roman, I don't know, we will ever really find out we never do.

Can I just go back the the players and my likes and dislikes, as my earlier post I stated imho I think Oscar is a complete waste of space, to lightweight, looks completely disinterested, how on earth did Jose ever get rid of Juan Mata? "he don't track back enough" give me a break, he had been brilliant for us and now for Manure he's a real number 10............so what does Jose do, get rid of the puppet master and keep the puppet, and then we get rid of DeBruyne and bring in Cuadrado, this all really hurts.

Is Jose starting to lose the plot? I personally think he's not the same manager as that left, amongst othe things he's lost a lot of his joviality, he looks all to agitated all the time, don't get me wrong I love Jose and always will just fear he might be losing it...............what do you think.

best Regards: JBD

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I don't think we have a lack of depth, tbh.

Goalkeepers: Thibaut, Begovic, Blackman

Full-back: Ivanovic, Azpilicueta, Baba, plus Ramires and Zouma if necessary.

Centre-back: Terry, Cahill, Zouma, Ivanovic, plus Mikel and Matic in an absolute emergency. Plus Stones looks likely to join us at some stage.

Midfield pivot: Matic, Fabregas, Mikel, Ramires, RLC, plus Zouma and Oscar if necessary.

Attacking midfielders: Hazard, Willian, Cuadrado, Oscar, Ramires, Fabregas, plus Remy and RLC if necessary.

Strikers: Falcao, Costa, Remy.

For me, the squad size and versatility is good enough. My concern is that the quality of the back-up players is actually worse than this time last year.

Schurrle > Cuadrado (goes without saying)

Cech > Begovic (Begovic is outstanding and has been our best player so far this season, but Cech is still one of the best in the world)

Luis > Baba (I've never actually seen Baba play, but let's be frank, Luis is still one of the best full-backs in the world...)

Falcao = Drogba (both are decent enough for 3rd choice forwards)

Now if we'd have replaced Luis with someone like Dani Alves (I know we weren't linked with him; I'm speaking hypothetically in terms of replacing players with better/similar quality footballers), Drogba with Griezmann, Schurrle with Reus, etc., we'd still have the best squad in the league. I maintain our first-choice, when in-form, starting XI is the best in the league, but our options from the bench have changed from being Cech-Luis-Ramires-Schurrle-Mikel-Remy-Drogba to Begovic-Zouma-Cuadrado-Falcao-Moses-Remy-Loftus Cheek. Our squad is suitably sized but the quality of our reserves just isn't if you want to defend a league title. Signing Baba and Stones gives us greater defensive options but our issues lie in midfield right now.

[Gappy 130]

Our issues may be Jose don't rotation enough.

He will play same squad no matter what

And when he need someone in the bench he'll pick same person in the different position.