Now that the summer transfer window has finally closed, we know what our squad looks like for the season. Or at least until January. A lot of fans are a little nervous; what if we get a few serious injuries?

What if we don’t though? Isn’t our main core of players pretty strong?

Here’s a similar thought: What if one or two of our immediate competitors suffer injuries? How deep does their quality run?

We’ll get confirmation of the 25-man Premier League squads shortly – I’ll follow up with those when they’re published – but I’ve used the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia, to knock up a quick matrix of sorts.

The table below is obviously too small to read, clicking this link will take you to the full sized version and should allow you to scroll horizontally though the clubs.

As I say, the source data came from Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know), I’ve just manipulated it in a spreadsheet for comparative purposes. I don’t know about you, but with only the league and Carling Cup to contend with this side of January, I don’t think we’ve got a great deal to be concerned about.

Well, okay, I do know about you… you’re still concerned, aren’t you? Hmmmm, well there isn’t much I can do in that case, perhaps you can be distracted with some random factoids.

Some random factoids

If you’re interested, here’s a little information that was easily extractable by playing with the Wikipedia data:

Positions Total GK DF MF FW
Swansea 37 3 12 16 6
West Brom 36 3 10 15 8
Wolves 36 3 11 15 7
Bolton 35 3 12 11 9
Liverpool 33 4 12 10 7
QPR 33 4 11 11 7
Man Utd 32 5 8 12 7
Stoke 31 3 9 13 6
Arsenal 30 4 9 10 7
Newcastle 30 4 7 12 7
Norwich 30 2 10 11 7
Blackburn 29 2 11 8 8
Man City 29 4 11 9 5
Aston Villa 28 4 11 9 4
Tottenham 28 3 8 13 4
Everton 27 2 9 9 7
Wigan 27 4 9 9 5
Chelsea 26 3 8 9 6
Sunderland 24 3 5 9 7
Fulham 23 2 7 9 5
English British
Norwich 18 60% Norwich 24 80%
Bolton 19 54% Swansea 26 70%
Stoke 16 52% Wolves 23 64%
Liverpool 16 48% West Brom 22 61%
QPR 16 48% Bolton 21 60%
West Brom 17 47% Liverpool 19 58%
Aston Villa 13 46% Aston Villa 16 57%
Wolves 16 44% Stoke 17 55%
Newcastle 13 43% QPR 18 55%
Sunderland 10 42% Sunderland 13 54%
Everton 11 41% Man Utd 15 47%
Man City 11 38% Newcastle 14 47%
Man Utd 12 38% Blackburn 13 45%
Tottenham 10 36% Everton 11 41%
Blackburn 10 34% Tottenham 11 39%
Swansea 11 30% Man City 11 38%
Chelsea 7 27% Wigan 10 37%
Wigan 7 26% Fulham 7 30%
Arsenal 6 20% Chelsea 7 27%
Fulham 4 17% Arsenal 7 23%

And as many, many people have already pointed out; our first choice back four is now likely to feature a Scotsman, a Welshman, an Irishman and an Englishman. Hopefully there are no punchlines to that.

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4 Comments to “Premier League squad depth comparison: All 20 teams”

  1. ianrobo 1 September 2011 at 10:19 pm #

    one thing missing mate is the average number of games and % of youth to ‘experience’ for each club

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    • Dan 1 September 2011 at 10:26 pm #

      that’s two things.

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  2. ric 1 September 2011 at 11:26 pm #

    you would hope that an established first team players will have >50 first team games.

    wiki says delph is a handful away and albrighton, bannan and clarke will get close or through that this season. all other first teamers are big boys who have played in the big league.

    to examine this a simple matric per player based on the median games (or minutes played) over the last four seasons weighted for age, position, mean cards per game, whether the player is injury prone – sum and weight for unknown biases (such as vidic never getting sent off) and then see if we are better off than stoke or spurs or sunderland or whoever else we are feeling intimidated by.

    on another point – we do have more than our fair share of whingers at villa? reality check – we are not an arabian billionaires play thing – we are also are not a tramp team wearing cardboard shoes (sorry evertonians – can anyone lend them a few pence for a centre forward next game – or just buy an extra pie?). we want to be a successful club that lives within its means. some fans seem to want us to be leeds, cardiff or pompey…..the transfers look good on paper….yes we are sorry to see good players leave. Young looks excellent at man u (to be fair this is not a shock they made john o’shea look like a footballer!) but the passed-their-sell-by-date moaner and high-earners…come off it – it was good business to ship them out. I hear Carew and Reo-Coker are blazing a path to glory …..oh no I missed that mail.

    …and relax and back to my happy place :)

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  3. bazzah 2 September 2011 at 6:36 pm #

    Our midfield could have contained a northern irishman. Steven Davis is not the way forward – its darn right desperate.

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