Yes we need movement and I was watching Son yesterday and he was making runs but the CMs weren’t finding him with way too much sideways crap. Kane and Moura on the other hand were way too much like statues.
We certainly played better against Villa than we did against Newcastle but struggle we did... we equalized in the 73rd minute...
What I'm trying to highlight is we barely scraped the CL qual this year, and not from our wonderful latter half form.
If you want to be 3rd best then expect to spend the 3rd highest amount on transfers and wages. If you are among the bottom 3 spenders on transfers and way behind the top 4 on wages and yet you consistently achieve 3rd or 4th then you are massively outperforming versus your resources and you should be lauding the man who did it for you not moaning that he hadn’t won anything. The views in this thread are so knee jerk and lacking in gratitude it is embarrassing.
I agree with the concept but many times we have a hard time getting through the last third
It comes down to yesterday because it would seem we are still having bad games like last season...if we cant solve these problems then there will be no trophies...surely the idea is to do better not the same or worse....
Can you tell me the exact significance of 15 games ? What does that table look like on a rolling 38 game basis ?
Sorry I have to disagree. There are just some of us who are more passionate about the club and those of us like yourself who settle for mediocrity it seems. You've no interest in analysing why people are upset, they're just knee jerkers aren't they.
The response would be that why do we expect to play better than last season when none of our new signings are out there and when we're still missing/not starting three of our best players? The team we started yesterday just isn't any better than the ones we started for most of last season, in fact I'd argue it might be worse without Eriksen.
The 3-0 against Dortmund for me was sublime. Why aren't we trying to play this way week in week out?
We still have the same team that struggled last year, we still have many of the same injuries. We made one major signing early and then 2 on deadline day. Is there any reason to expect the weaknesses we had from not spending for years to be fixed in the first 3 games when our only effective signing was injured ? It’s as if people look at the amount spent and think it instantly translates to a different team. Well if all 3 had a full pre-season and were fit maybe that would be a more reasonable expectation but even then it seems super harsh to go all negative on our best manager since Bill Nick after just 3 games. It’s like his ridiculous achievements in 5 years count for nothing.
Change ones mindset. I go into games against the likes of Newcastle and think. " We ought to be fucking winning this". Not thinking "you know what, id be happy with a point"
