- Aug 26, 2010
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If you look at the Premier League season as a whole we have not been great a lot of the time. Yes we have ground out many results and that can be taken 2 ways. Either we have a never say die attitude and just don't give up or we have been getting away with it. Right now it feels like we have been getting away with it as results are going against us. However you cannot have so many players in certain positions underperform consistently and think that eventually it won't catch up with you.
Trippier has been poor all season.
Eriksen over the last few months looks like a shadow of the player he is.
Davies is average..no disrespect as average is often constituted as steady..take it as you will.
Lamela has been all over the place for quite a while and not in a good way.
Moura has been a massive let down recently.
Kane has looked like he is running on empty for god knows how long injury or not..the fact he is world class means he still performs.
The list could go on and on in terms of positions just not producing or players being missing due to injury ... but just on todays peformance that's half your team not at the races which means you get what you deserve which is a loss.
If we manage to finish in the top 4 this season it will be an incredible achievement based on how we have actually performed within games and that we have been at Wembley again. However that will only serve to cover up the fact that we need significant investment in the Squad and we have all seen that Levy and significant investment are not words that go hand in hand when it comes to players and/or wages.
This is a seminal moment in this squads existence. Keep the core of this squad paying market rate wages to Eriksen/Aldeweireld/Vertonghen/Son to ensure they stay. Then address the RB/LB/CM and back up striker positions in the Summer and we have the ability in a new stadium to challenge at the top level. Easier said than done but its there and in touching distance if only Levy and Co have the desire to make it happen. Sadly that means money and lots of it ,as money talks more than ever in the Premier League. I am not sure Levy has the stomach for a balls deep transfer/wage policy but I will enjoy being proven wrong should it materialize.
It will be a tragedy if this core group of players wins nothing and slowly disperses to other clubs.
Trippier has been poor all season.
Eriksen over the last few months looks like a shadow of the player he is.
Davies is average..no disrespect as average is often constituted as steady..take it as you will.
Lamela has been all over the place for quite a while and not in a good way.
Moura has been a massive let down recently.
Kane has looked like he is running on empty for god knows how long injury or not..the fact he is world class means he still performs.
The list could go on and on in terms of positions just not producing or players being missing due to injury ... but just on todays peformance that's half your team not at the races which means you get what you deserve which is a loss.
If we manage to finish in the top 4 this season it will be an incredible achievement based on how we have actually performed within games and that we have been at Wembley again. However that will only serve to cover up the fact that we need significant investment in the Squad and we have all seen that Levy and significant investment are not words that go hand in hand when it comes to players and/or wages.
This is a seminal moment in this squads existence. Keep the core of this squad paying market rate wages to Eriksen/Aldeweireld/Vertonghen/Son to ensure they stay. Then address the RB/LB/CM and back up striker positions in the Summer and we have the ability in a new stadium to challenge at the top level. Easier said than done but its there and in touching distance if only Levy and Co have the desire to make it happen. Sadly that means money and lots of it ,as money talks more than ever in the Premier League. I am not sure Levy has the stomach for a balls deep transfer/wage policy but I will enjoy being proven wrong should it materialize.
It will be a tragedy if this core group of players wins nothing and slowly disperses to other clubs.