I don't disagree on your first 4 center back choices, but Klavan can be a useful squad player.
Hopefully we are looking at 18-20 more matches next season (6-15 in the CL, one more in the League Cup and 4 more in the FA Cup).
So while guys like Moreno and Sturridge are probably off, there's no reason to jettison everybody who we don't fancy as a first-choice player. If we've learned nothing else from this season, it should be that we can't be too thin in cover. You see how much worse our record is in weeks when we play a midweek fixture bookended by two weekend matches. I would hope we sign a couple of frees, maybe one in midfield and one up front, for some extra cover, in addition to the more meaningful, first-choice players we have to sign to raise the overall level of the team.
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