No player should be a automatic pick. However, all players should believe in themselves enough to believe they'll be first choice
I know this sounds as ridiclous as it looks lol but we could get a cb and striker for about £60 mill ish. Toby £25 mill and werner £35 mill has been quoted. We got nearly 20 mill of that from solanke and if we get another 15 mill for origi.
Yup, I'm afraid that Pulisic has set the bar this Jan. He'd be £60m at least I reckon, although that will decrease quickly over coming months.
Just looking at the 'b team' that City have out, tells me that we need to strengthen now if we want to maintain our challenge. They have made 7 changes and the team they have out looks very strong!
I've never got the "Spurs have thinnest squad" narrative as i think that they have the strongest cover in defence and good cover in MF ,would be very good if they had acted on the obvious Wanyamer , Dembele fitness issues in the summer window. I don't see much between us Chelsea & Spurs in squad depth but we have an obvious weakness in defensive cover.