Unless you spent all last season commuting between our games and those in Zurich, Barnsley and West London you can't possibly know that. They haven't played a competitive game for us between them.
Let's just assume that both rumours doing the rounds are correct. I would be genuinely interested in people's opinion on the relevant squad strength of
Ullloa - Barnes - Lita (can't have CMS and Hoskins as known injured and let's say for fun Ulloa gets injured early on).
Ulloa - Obika -...
You may have a very valid point there. You also may not. We replace like for like or try to. Barnes eventual replacement was either Lingard or Spanish Rod. You'd probably have to get at Burke's database to find out which they thought they'd covered. From the way pre-season is going Fenelon (AKA...