3 keepers
5 centre backs (plus Semedo can tuck in)
5 wing backs
4 centre mids
2 right sided attackers (Neto, Sarabia)
3 left sided (Cunha, Bellegarde, Chiquinho)
1 striker (at least one to be signed)
You can argue about the quality, and there will be changes in personnel, but I don’t think it’s light on ‘numbers’ or balance at all.
You can't divorce quality from quantity though as we could go and get 20 Sunday League players and say we have numbers.
But if we take it on numbers.
3 Keepers
5 CB - Semedo is not a CB and never will be
4 RWB - included R. Gomes and Hoever in that number
2 LWB
5 CM - included Bellegarde as that is where he was initially played before being shoehorned out wide where he can't play
3 AMR - Chiquinho has never played on the left for us
1 AML
1 STR (Hwang at a push)
And that's before you get to
2 Keepers not being good enough
2 CB's not being good enough, 1 ageing, 1 not being able to play in a 2.
2 RWB nowhere near good enough
1 LWB not rated by the manager
1 CM who can't play deep, but well stocked otherwise
3 AMR who all might leave in the next month
1 world class AML/ deep lying forward in Cunha
1 STR who is a pure poacher and nothing else
It's only RWB and CM where you can say we have enough quality in depth and AMR for now.
That's a squad completely devoid of depth and balance no matter how hard you argue the numbers.