I think most would assume you could put out a similar starting XI of internationals and do a better job: turns out you can’t. Unkind to put Mason in this position but I can only hope that Levy’s factored in losing European money and is going ‘big’ over summer with manager + spend (based on very little historical evidence). Working on Plan B - money from stadium crowd + TV money to push back into Europe in the next two years or so. Lack of European games also makes domestic cup and PL performance better with a smaller squad (in theory).