Garcia still had a core squad of Bruno, Greer, Crofts, Orlandi, Lopez, Ward, Calde, Ulloa, Upson, Lingard, JFC, March, Lua Lua, Buckley, Kuz, and Stephens (although he was injured), and Andrews. Or to put it another way he had 6 regular players who are playing in the Prem this season.
We never...
We had a weaker team under Oscar in 2013/14 but still made the play offs and Hyppia wasn't helped as we didn't properly replace Ulloa, Barnes, Bridcutt, Ward, Andrews, Upson or Buckley who all left in 2014. Club also decided to invest or rely more on youth players like Ince, JFC and Lua Lua who...