It's probably going to be a problem having so many new players, but unfortunately for Brendan he's used up all his get out of jail free cards already so it's not going to be an excuse that anybody is going to take seriously. usually players do take time to settle and when they come in in these sort of numbers form does suffer, but we are just going to have to break convention a little and hit the ground at a gallop.
There are players who aren't "new" who owe us a performance or two (Lovren, Lallana, Sakho, Moreno, Mignolet, Markovic etc) and hopefully those of that bunch that can actually still get in the team step up significantly on what they've shown before. If they do I've a hunch we'll go well and surprise a few people, if they don't my guess is things will look quite bleak by Christmas.
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