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Player Valuation: £25m
This is an overlooked point. The players aren’t world beaters but it’s is certainly a better balanced squad than either Lampard or Benitez had to work with.Yes but without the points deduction, he’d be averaging slightly over a point a game, which in the majority of seasons you’re going to be close to the drop. Also it’s a slightly easier season and he has a better squad, considering what Lampard had to work last season first half of the season and dyche 2nd half of last season.
A spine of, the England keeper, one of the best young centre half’s in the country, Tarks, Onana, Garner, Doucs and DCL is not a terrible spine and can play a lot better and be more competitive than they are.
The players in the squad actually all suit, in theory, the style that the manager wants to play. Benitez/Lampard were both saddled with a Frankenstein’s monster of a squad, some players suited the way they wanted to play, others didn’t.