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The rate of injuries all over Europe is out of control right now, and then you factor in how the transfer prices for reinforcements just keep going up. It's a bubble and very concerning.
No wonder everyone has thin squads when it costs so much just to get a viable starting 11, who then get over played.
Yep - for all the shit Chelsea and United get (rightfully) for underperforming, there's only so much that you can do when you're missing basically an entire team's worth of players.
For a good few weeks, Chelsea and Manchester United could put out an "out XI" that was better than their starting XI...
Sorry, are you saying Chelsea and Man U are victims of inflated player prices resulting in top heavy squads? The team that spent a billion quid in a year and iirc the leading spender over the last decade?
What? No, I'm not.
I'm saying that while both teams should be performing better, there's only so much you can do with so many injuries. You can have the best plans the world, but if half the team is out injured at any given time you're never going to get a sense of consistency and it's a case of "who can play" rather than "who should play".