With Patrick Roberts available on Saturday and our deadline day signings bedding in over the international break, Tony Mowbray has spoken about the variety of options at his disposal against QPR...
STARTING XI HARD TO DISPLACE
"It's very difficult to change a team that has just won 5-0 against one of the fancied teams and created so many chances. And, with total respect to Southampton, we could have scored more - Hemir could and should have scored and it would have been great for him to be up and running."
FILTER THEM IN
"There's a luxury there at the moment and we will filter these players into the team bit by bit, but that doesn't mean that in four weeks' time they are all in the team and there is no [Jack] Clarke and no [Dan] Neil. They [the new players] have to come here and compete, they are not here to replace anybody. They have to find their place in the squad and one that has been playing well."
AOUCHICHE/PEMBELE
"Adil will come with the group, but it's a bit soon for Timmy [Pembele]. It's good to have all these players and I've got some dilemmas. I'm going to take 22 or 21 players so some are going to get left out of the matchday squad, but it's good to have those dilemmas. They're not problems, really. As long as the players understand the logic of why you select a team and you communicate with them, I think they understand."
