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turn a corner four times and you are back where you started.
We just need another striker(s) who can score goals in the prem. That's all.But I don't think this is the answer either. Integrating a whole host of new players mid-season is disruptive and, since we're unlikely to pay the premium costs for PL players, is likely to involve players having to adjust to a new league. We've seen with even an experienced player like Fazio that this is a tricky process.
Whilst this is true. Arsenal have consistenly sold their best players and have continued to do well. so the business model does work. It is the players we are replacing them with that is the problem. Therefore this is down to scouting and purchasing of sub standard players.We'll never truly turn the corner with our current business plan. We can blame managers and players all we want, but until we keep hold of our best players (game changing players), we'll forever bounce back and forth on progress.
When you compare the team of a few years back to now, it's unrecognisable...no consistency no progress.
Yep this is true. Arsenal have always bought players that fit the system in which Wenger wants them to play. We just sign new managers and expect them to build around dysfunctional players. We are atrocious in all aspects of recruiting. Daniel Levy for my money has tried pissing in the wind far too often when it comes to footballing decisions. Makes you consistently question the football education of Levy every-time he makes a decision. How much blind faith does he need to put up with before he seriously doubts his role in all of this???Whilst this is true. Arsenal have consistenly sold their best players and have continued to do well. so the business model does work. It is the players we are replacing them with that is the problem. Therefore this is down to scouting and purchasing of sub standard players.
We'll never truly turn the corner with our current business plan. We can blame managers and players all we want, but until we keep hold of our best players (game changing players), we'll forever bounce back and forth on progress.
When you compare the team of a few years back to now, it's unrecognisable...no consistency no progress.
I wish we could but not with this squad. We have not bought well over the last 18 months except Fazio. He will be mint when fully settled into the team
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15 league games and you've decided Poch should be shown the door before next season.
You actively want Spurs to lose a game.
Hmmm.
I suppose the biggest disappointment for me has been the exciting prospect of Poch improving under performing players has turned into the opposite
Poch didn't have a track record with trophies , but the glowing endorsements of the Soton players re how he'd improved them was quite striking .
We drooled at the prospect of him getting hold of our underperformers but several now seem worse than ever
At the moment we are worse under Poch than we were under Sherwood and that's a pretty damning indictment.
It's still too early to say that Poch can't turn it around though and I still largely don't blame him for our problems. I think he's inherited a squad of players who think they are better than they are and he needs to be given the chance to get rid of the chancers like Soldado, Lamela and Paulinho (plus about seven others) and bring in players he trusts and can work with.
If we don't get a significant number of fresh faces in January then I don't think we will turn a corner this season. The players we have are showing that by and large they simply aren't up to it.
K
The Leicester players are giving it their all .
I can identify with that so want them to stay up . 3 points isn't going to make any difference to us .
It's very difficult identifying with our current lot and what Spurs has become over the past 20 years .