I really think a lot of our issues right now come down to needing better and/or more suitable players and especially to have better players to rotate with.
It feels like we are halfway there but we’re still four or five top players short of really competing.
Everyone is talking about being caught out by set pieces or our own high press but these are fairly tractable problems imo. Ange is not an idiot. If a bunch of guys on an internet forum can see , it’s not like he can’t.
For me though, if you have e.g Udogie, Porro and Bissouma all out of form
and your alternatives are Davies, Emerson and Hojbjerg, then you have a fundamental problem with the composition of the squad which is going to take a few more windows to rectify.
Similarly we lack quality up front full stop, which is not surprising given we sold Kane and effectively replaced him with Johnson and Werner. With all due respect to them both, they’re not in the same league as Kane.
We did a complete u-turn with Ange after four years years of Mourinho-Nuno-Conte football, so it’s not surprising the squad still needs a lot of work. And obviously the Kane sale compounded that.
It feels like we are halfway there but we’re still four or five top players short of really competing.
Everyone is talking about being caught out by set pieces or our own high press but these are fairly tractable problems imo. Ange is not an idiot. If a bunch of guys on an internet forum can see , it’s not like he can’t.
For me though, if you have e.g Udogie, Porro and Bissouma all out of form
and your alternatives are Davies, Emerson and Hojbjerg, then you have a fundamental problem with the composition of the squad which is going to take a few more windows to rectify.
Similarly we lack quality up front full stop, which is not surprising given we sold Kane and effectively replaced him with Johnson and Werner. With all due respect to them both, they’re not in the same league as Kane.
We did a complete u-turn with Ange after four years years of Mourinho-Nuno-Conte football, so it’s not surprising the squad still needs a lot of work. And obviously the Kane sale compounded that.