Arne Slot clears up squad depth comments after Man City & Chelsea claim

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“I’m happy that you ask this question: I’m completely happy with the team, with all the quality that we have. “But the ‘issue’, if you could talk about an issue, is that not all of them have had a proper pre-season or have been injured during the season.

I am a firm believer in the fact that 20, 21 players are enough, but you have to keep them fit – as we did last season.” Alisson, Giovanni Leoni, Jeremie Frimpong, Ryan Gravenberch, Curtis Jones, Stefan Bajcetic, Alexander Isak and Jayden Danns were all ruled out Wednesday night. “So it has been more difficult than last season to keep them all available.

“And that would have been a difficult schedule for every player last season, and I mean a player who has been fit throughout pre-season and throughout the whole season, but that has not been our situation. “So that’s nothing to do with the squad depth, it has to do with how we’ve run through the season in terms of injuries and availability, and players available to play every single time two games in three days.” Slot can welcome Gravenberch back from his ankle injury for Saturday’s visit of Aston Villa, while he will be hoping for positive news on Jones and Isak next week, when his side face Real Madrid and Man City.