Stones out

For up to 5 weeks according to the BBC. Leaves us with just Nico at CB. Ferna will obviously fill in, but I liked what I saw of Harwood-Bellis in preseason, could be a big opportunity for the lad.

Yep the Chelsea kids have taken their chance hopefully ours can do the same, not sure he will risk them though.

I'd risk it if I were Pep.  It's not like there's much left to prove and nobody in their right mind could sack him after telling him he can't buy a centre half and then have two thirds of what you do have keel over inside a couple of weeks of each other.  If he bloods a kid and it works out, he's a genius, and if it doesn't then at least he's giving youth a chance.