We wont be in the race I think mostly because our manager wont play the best players available to him when needed. Ben White has no place in the first 11 but as a back-up CB to Gabriel and Saliba. He is not a RB and we need better options there. LB also needs sorting, I cant make up my mind if our fragile LB Tierney is being misused or is just not that good. He came on in the Shield and immediately was the culprit in the City goal. Zinchenko is great going forward but not defensively. Timber has to be the default there simply because he is better in defence, but we cannot carry 2 surplus LB`s in a numbers limited squad. Midfield is improved vastly simply by having Xhaka not there but not amongst the best 4 in the league IMO. We have no convincing goal scorer so we will do well to make 4th.
CL exit by February if it happens will almost certainly tell us if we are contenders or make believe. I have no faith in Arteta to improve our lot.
Make 2mrw better than 2day
If we don’t finish 4th, then Arteta will be shown the door. In fact I think he could be shown the door if there isn’t a sustained title challenge given he’s been allowed to spend so much of Tom Selleck’s money….he’s going to want a return.
Which just goes to show that behind every cloud is a silver lining. And that’s not even being frustrated with man’s tactics lack of rotation. I just think he’s a cunt with no personality. He could win the treble this year (well no he couldn’t…it’s beyond his ability) and I’d still despise him.
Just read that Caicedo is having second thoughts on Liverpool and prefers Chelsea.
Quality player but this guy seems like a bit of a mercenary rat with how he’s tried to get out of Brighton since January.
Think there’s either misinformation or chicanery going on somewhere in a lot of reporting
Chelsea haven’t given up on Caicedo even though Liverpool have had a fee agreed. Similar with reports about Kane, first off saying he wants to stay and then being waylaid outside Stanstead and being told not to board a flight to Deutschland