Record after eighteen games.
Best since 18/19. Even if we lose to Brighton, we've only had four PL seasons better at the halfway mark.
After selling our best player and with a ridiculous injury list.
Bloke's a wizard.
Ange has done a brilliant job, especially given the injuries and poor squad depth.
I think losing Kane during the summer was a blessing in disguise though, and I said so at the time. Yeah maybe we would have even more points with Kane now but unless Kane committed to another contract it would be a sideshow sucking out enthusiasm from the new project.
Selling Kane (rather than periphery players like Dier or Davies) was the real final step in the “painful rebuild”. It’s given Ange the freedom to start shaping a genuinely new team, as opposed to the Mourinho/Conte teams which tried to make it all about Kane.