Did you engage your brain before even posting this up clearly not.

It's very simple the rules are you can only register so many so it's the same for every one Palace used up all their allocation so no they do not have a smaller squad compared to those others you mention.

A load of waffle

Kouyate has not been best defender at all do you even watch the games I don't think you do and he is not a CB doesn't matter if he has featured their for his country or pub team we have proper players that play that role and they dont even get given a chance.

Stats are useless and again shows you are clearly not even watching the games we play to try and keep the ball this is why we constantly keep sending the ball backwards to try keep possession we don't do it well means nothing this is how Roy wants us to play.

Yes it is the best squad show a season with none of those names which is a better squad you cant it has nothing to do with people not at peak etc.

You really have no idea this is how Roy has set them up to keep the ball even if that means its at the back and the slow pace again is down to him yes those players you could say are not the quickest but we had more creative quick players he had no interest in playing them or drops them into the same system.

Energy levels are set by managers you train for the style of play if a player cant cut it you dont play them and replace them so more lack of knowledge (Pep did this at City so did Klopp at Liverpool)