Rafa's Squad Progression

MFletcher · January 21, 2010

Rafa's squad progression in each position throughout his tenure. One or two might not be in the correct places e.g. Le Tallec, but I had the fit them in somewhere to begin with. Either way, a player in brackets indicates that the player was perceived to be 'filling in' that position at the time. (Jan) obviously means the player was sold half-way through the season. Henchoz/Pellegrino and Pongolle/Fowler indicate the former was sold and replaced by the latter in January.

I think it's quite useful to lay it out like that. It lets us see where we're stronger, where we're weaker, how we've fared season to season in terms of squad strength and depth.

Below is the net spend chart for anyone who wants to compare season to season in terms of squad strength and the money spent to arrive at said squad.

I'm not trying to prove anything by doing this, but I felt it would be beneficial to get it down in such a format and then allow people to make their own assessments, particularly given the various media accusations about the strength of the squad, Rafa's selling of players who weren't cutting it and so forth.

libero · January 21, 2010

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