This team is good enough to win the league
- The "star" players and Poch are letting us down as opposed to squad/non popular players
Yes I think this squad is good enough to win the league. If Leicester and Chelsea did it, then I 100% believe we have the quality, but not the luck, mentality, experience, consistency or application.
The star players are the ones that make biggest impact.
We can win games if Davies or Winks have a shocker.
If Eriksen, Dele and Kane play shit, it doesn’t really matter how well Trippier or Sissoko played. Our chances are dramatically reduced, and for me that was the case v Wolves.
People blame the squad, but how many times have we lost a game because of Davies or Dier?
How many times have we lost a game because we had 95 shots and only scored one though?
Clearly not the service is it.
( I’m fully aware Wolves was an anomaly where we registered just 4 shots on goal all game)
Improving the positions deemed weak to get them on par with our "fab 4" etc will not improve our chances at winning the league or becoming better because it is in fact the current star players and Poch underperforming (yesterday at least) so replacing the attacked players will achieve nothing as they are doing fine or at least on par with the rest of the team?
Replacing Davies with Sessegnon won’t make Son stop being a player you flip a coin on whether he’s going to put one in the top corner, or tamely tap it at the keepers shins.
NDombele won’t make Dele pass the ball forward quicker.
My point is that when our key players play shit, it’s not because of those less talented players around them.
Dier could do everything right in a match, but if we lose due to Kane missing sitters or Eriksen giving the ball away, the only thing said will be “we need a new DM”.
Of course we could improve Trippier. We could improve Dele though.
Do people think we’d be better off with Walker back, or keep Trippier and replacing
Dele with Dybala or Sane?
Point being, I expect more from a world class player, than I do Trippier, so if Trippier “isn’t good enough” he isn’t necessarily playing five levels below his capabilities.
- It is unreasonable to use the fact that Spurs have been significantly out spent in the market because Poch already has a good enough team
It’s not unreasonable if people take into account the fact City spent a billion and Leicester won the league.
Or that this Fab Four that I’m not allowed to criticise, that are so revered beyond reproach cost a combined 40M for all of them.
Too often overlooked by people falsley claiming the only way is to spend big.
In the past it was acceptable for us to look to strengthen the team every year but this time it's different because the squad is good enough due to the previous windows and player development.
It’s different because we are a ten times better team to 5 years ago.
The likes of Chadli won’t improve us anymore.
The stadium will bring in more revenue and we will eventually be able to sign players that can improve the squad.
Some people demand players they’ve never seen play. Some people would have been happy to spend 60M on Zaha.
To me that says it all. It’s not about the club, it’s something to appease their own cravings. I wouldn’t want Zaha here as he would not make us better and that’s the only point in signing a player.
- That the direct correlation between money spent on wages/transfers and final league standings are irrelevant because of examples like Leicester
It’s not irrelevant but it proves there is another way.
On the flip side, people claim Leicester doing it is irrelevant because it doesn’t fit the mantra that you have to spend massive amounts to compete.
So we pretend teams were letting them win and refs gifted them the title.
You know when they won the league?
0-1 Huth at WHL..hardly a game the oppo bent over for them eh.
It was a game where Kane missed several
one on ones and we couldn’t score from some 26 shots. Sound familiar?
- The main stumbling block in front of us winning the league is the attitude and performances from some/all of our players and the manager.
In some key games absolutely this