It’s a reasonable perspective, but if this is approach your club supports they don’t get to complain when they get one or two senior injuries and lack the squad options to deal with it.
As for young players competing for opportunities with senior players, I think fans of most clubs understand that their talented youth prospects are rarely better than those senior option in the moment. But most would think the club is well served, both in terms of stability and identity, by the manager putting effort into finding carefully identified opportunities to use them so they can develop into a player who might in time be so. Pep has had a never ending supply of such players and has only ever done that with 2 of them. I think it is worth pointing out how many of those players there are currently doing well for other Prem clubs who offer exactly the things they are now looking to the transfer market to address, regardless of where you come down on whether that justifies criticism of him.
Bournemouth playing like they have acrophobia at 7th in the table, Everton are thoroughly mediocre. I don’t understand why Bournemouth have not attacked Branthwaite more, he has been on a yellow basically the whole match.
I suspect if Lopetegui is in the West Ham job, it is solely because of the ‘name’ of today’s opponent. If he loses at home versus Fulham, that has to be it.
He’s highly rated, and was seemingly on course for a move given the number of CBs they brought in over the past two years. It is interesting he is getting a shot today with Disasi and Tosin both available