Yeah, I’d like to see more of the younger players more often, but I also kind of get why we’re showing a bit of restraint - players like Smith Rowe and Saliba have already suffered long-term injuries before their 19th birthdays so you do have to carefully manage their workload. Just because we chucked guys like Wilshere and Cesc straight into the starting XI at that age, doesn’t mean we should have. It certainly didn’t do Wilshere’s career any favours in the long-run!

Tbh, I haven’t been blown away by what Lampard has done with the younger players at Chelsea - looked impressive to start with but the longer the season went on the more it looked like there was no real plan behind it. Mostly it looks like they’ve just thrown caution to the wind - results in some exciting football at times, but their defence is shocking and they’ll never seriously challenge for anything playing that way. They’re basically Wenger’s Arsenal in his second 10 years.

What we’re having to do at the moment is more dour to look at, but at least it feels like the first part of a plan, and that we’re laying the long-term foundations for something. Hopefully Arteta will be the man to take us to that next level with our attacking play, but even if it’s the next guy then this work will still have been worth it.