Craig Burley
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I mean, come on, there is no excuse here for... This is one of the best squads in European football.
Yeah, it might have some balance issues.
If there's balance issues, that is sitting... Is he getting the best out of that squad?
Well, why is Matthias Nunes playing right-back still and why has Nico O'Reilly been playing left-back when they signed Etnuri from Wolves, who they knew couldn't defend?
Because if you watched him at Wolves, he couldn't defend.
He's not a very good defender.
When they won the Champions League, the year they won the Premier League and the Champions League, they gave up a bit of going forward for a bit of solidity.
And they needed that for the final against Inter Milan because they didn't play well.
But they had a little bit more solidity.
They've gone back to the old gung-ho city.
Ah, yeah, we'll play two attackers at full-back and we'll do... They have a giant squad.
Well, it might not be good enough because of these positions that I'm talking about, particularly the full-back positions.
But you look at the team they had out tonight, going forward in particular, and you look at all the players I talked about on the bench, that's incredible.
But if they've not solidified the right-back and the left-back positions, that's on them.
Because they've spent enough money, they've brought players in, but they've not brought in the right profile of player.