I would go that far, thay still have one of the strongest squad. They just need to get rid of Chivu. Hard to understand why he kept Mkhitiryan for the entire game yesterday.
me neither, i also think they have the strongest squad. i didn't see the whole match but even yesterday it was obvious that they can still keep the ball, play high and shoot a lot. that should be enough against the majority of serie a teams
they have their problems though. barella has been meh for a while, acerbi (although looked fine yesterday since we failed to exploit his lack of speed) is old af, sommer dropped considerably and his lack of height is showing when he can't somehow compensate it with speed, looks like bastoni peaked two seasons ago, lautaro can disappear for months and they don't have an effective deputy. the downsizing they made for economic reasons show. and there's chivu who's a huge question mark for them. then again, only conte (and probably gasp) offers any kind of guarantee in serie a, so i don't think chivu alone disqualifies them from anything
i still hope they have a shitty season. more than anyone, they are depending on cl revenue. it would be nice to see them contemplating selling both thuram and martinez and replace them with any striker sassuolo currently have lol