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Well summarised. It's all of those things but for me playing regularly in the Champions League is the least of them. Levy talked about our DNA, and then disregarded that with his actions. All I want is a club that acts in a decent manner, and instills a culture of playing great football from the very top. I'm not sure we have the right manager, and therefore possibly the right DOF for that. We certainly don't have the right Chairman for that.Personally I think its a culmination of a number of things:
1 - We had a taste of the good life. Riding high in the league being contenders, playing CL football every year & getting to the final with a great team of players and a manager who promoted good, aggressive football.
2 - The stadium fiasco of having to move to Wembley and then it being delayed yet again.
3 - The 2 years without signing a player, even though all of us as fans could see that the players were on the decline through age & form etc.
4 - The failed Mourinho experiment & the toxicity that he brought with him.
5 - The Harry Kane saga & all of us knowing why he wanted to leave but being absolute gutted about it.
6 - The lack of a cohesive transfer policy that actively targeted players in the positions that were required, instead we signed players for the same position (GLC & Ndombele) and failed to really address the glaringly obvious problems.
7 - The management hunt this summer, what a joke from start to finish.
8 - The Super League & the embarrassment of it all.
9 - Seeing the likes of Man Utd & Chelsea get back to throwing insane amounts of money around & getting some of the worlds best players which has just increased the gap between the clubs by tenfold. I can't see anyone else breaking into that top4 for a long time.
10 - The Adama Traore / Levy interjection.
11 - Lastly, we have witnessed our club play dreadful football since about January 2019. The whole 24 points from 25 games that ended Poch's reign, to the negative & boring football of Mourinho to now a bunch of average players.
Unfortunately for Nuno, he is now taking a lot of criticism due to all the above & the fact that we as fans have just had enough of accepting mediocrity having been so close. It is going to take a good few years for us to challenge for top 4 again in my opinion & it's not going to be pretty.
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