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Newcastle had 10 squad members (and Elliot Anderson who's u21 but a key squad member) out against Chelsea, we've got 2 games a week till Xmas.

Even with a decent 25 man squad we're at bare bones, we named 4 keepers and mostly kids on our bench, and started a 17y/o...

There's tough schedules and there's ridiculous schedules. Next year's changes to the champions league will add another burden for most clubs competing in that.

And then the double side of that is if you lose European football you can't afford to expand your squad to much or have tonnes of players in a non Euro season who just won't get enough football, so aside from teams who can stay in the top 3 regularly to build a massive squad, it just becomes a massive gamble on injuries.