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They have the smallest budget in the league and a wage cap of 25k!?

Something very wrong....

Do they have a stronger bench?

It's not just Burnley.

Well apart from Brady, I couldn't tell you who any of their subs were so I'd be surprised if you've seen enough of them to make a balanced judgement as to whether they're better than our bench from yesterday.

Tbf our bench is made of Balsa.

Did they really have a stronger bench?

9Vokes
12Brady
17Robinson
18Westwood
26Tarkowski
27Darikwa
32Agyei

Out of the above Vokes, Brady and Westwood have all played Premiership football before but aren't exactly top players.

In no way was their bench betters than ours but I suppose any excuse for a moan hey.

We did have a pretty weak bench though, whether better or worse than Burnley, we need more strength on the bench to change the game, would have looked better with Markovic and Sakho on it, if we lose 2 or 3 players we should not be so weakened.

Where's Grujic? I was hoping he'd get a run towards then end of the season as we have injuries etc. I'm guessing our youth players aren't ready yet as Klopp hasn't really brought any through yet in the PL, I guess being knocked out the cups early limited their exposure and chance to force their way in the PL team.

Whenever there's young players on the bench it's weak. One of the things I most dislike about football these days. I bet people were saying Spurs had a weak bench when Spurs had Harry Kane, Eric Dyer and Kyle Walker on their bench a couple of years ago. Now they'd walk in to our team. Harry Wilson is the sort of level they were then, all he needs is a chance. But the manager and a lot of fans don't have the balls to give it to him. Alexander Arnold more than good enough as a substitute full back too.

Having 1 or 2 young players on the bench is good, to bring on when you are doing well/won the game etc and bring on into a team playing well so they get good experience, but when the sh*t hits the fan and the experienced players are struggling and the team have no cohesion, it's difficult to bring young players on, you need experienced players in those situations, on the bench we had 4 youth players and 2 experienced players in Lucas & Moreno, plus Karius who is inexperienced and will only come on for Mignolet.

Ironically one of our more experienced younger players Jon Flannagan is on loan at Burnley, he could be playing now to give Milner or Clyne a break who both look tired to me. I don't see why we have such a weakened squad when we lose a few players, but we have all these decent players on loan to other clubs, long term the likes of Flannagan/Markovic/Wisdon might not have a future as we will replace them with better, but for now I am sure they could do a decent job for us.

There is no problem of having one or two teenagers on the bench, especially if they are in the mould of Owen, Rooney, Gerrard and the like, but not so many. Who did you think could have changed our game by coming off our bench? Non of our teenagers look to be able to come into a game and make a major impact