The thing for me is that our starting 11 is excellent - top 6. Beyond that though we are really thin. Look at Palace they have Bolasie, Zaha, Puncheon, Lee, Sako and probably more I've not thought of and in attack Wickham, Murray, Campbell and Gayle - now I'm not saying player for player that they've got more quality than us but when players get injured, which they will, teams like Palace and Southampton will be able to swap like for like while we continue to put square pegs in round holes.
I think the balance of our squad is all wrong - we are really well stocked in centre mid and left back and that's it! With Deulofeu, Mirallas, Pienaar and McGeady potentially out already we have no width AGAIN! With Lukaku potentially out we have no goal scoring threat.
I'm usually so so optimistic but this summer is killing any optimism I usually had. Thing is, say we go and sign Shaqiri, van Dijk and Austin, that optimism would probably come flooding back. The injuries are probably my biggest fear this summer as, as usual, the deals will get done but just late on.