Dreadful.
How did you conclude we had the 9th best squad? Cucurella hadn’t played in the PL, MacA just finding his feet, Mwepu unknown, Caicedo was out on loan, we still had Duffy as defensive cover, Maupay up front, Gross apperantly too old for many people (happy to check past Gross threads for you), Dan Burn who couldn’t play left back - where’s this 9th best squad come from?
True, and perhaps we don’t have that run of Dunk doesn’t get sent off at OT and misses the Burnley game, Maupay doesn’t miss a pen home to Norwich etc. Overall we were great for most of the season, terms like ‘downward spiral’ is just a bit ludicrous.
No they weren't. One successful season here, two bang average. One very average season at Swansea. And I reckon Dyche could get a lot of success in the Swedish lower leagues.
Quite fair.
Burn is playing for a top 4 team now.
Think that’s probably largely true of fans’ relationship with their team’s head coach regardless of which club or manager we’re talking about - when the team is on a winning streak or at least on an upward trajectory, they’ve got the best manager since sliced bread and fans love him but if form drops significantly or they’re simply making no progress when they were previously, it’s ‘off with his head! Some owners give managers more time than others, and most owners give managers more time than disgruntled fans do, especially if there’s an understanding that the whole system needs to change (as it did after Hughton) but they all get kicked out in the end if the team has nosedived with little immediate sign of recovery though don’t they?
Panto season is over GB. Just because you keep repeating something doesn’t make it true.
Also, you would think on paper that Chelsea has a better squad than us, yet everyone defending Potter's start there has blamed the players and said what an awful squad they have. That's Chelsea. In the knockout stages of the Champions League.
Of course he was. The speed at which the whole team moved immediately in the aftermath of Tuchel's departure meant only one thing. All contracts had been drafted already. All due diligence completed already. All domestic situations sorted. Schooling arranged. Everything in place bar the photoshoot signatures on paper. That is all that remained.
Stop saying it then.
Who says any of these players would have reached this level without the "culture of improvement" multiple players as well TB and PB said GP created?
Sorry, surely you assess where you think you should be at the start of a season not at the end?
Can you understand why some people are struggling to take things that you say seriously when you're always adapting your opinion to whatever direction the wind is currently blowing? I think that somewhere deep inside you might just, with very small margins, have enough self-awareness to understand that this is what you're very frequently doing when it comes to a lot of topics.
You have your opinion and I have mine, nothing wrong with that. It’s amusing to see your reaction to every comment on here that disagrees with you though - you’re trying to shoot down a lot of peoples opinions on this subject
Been saying this since the day he left, I don’t think he is a manager who can deal with and get respect from Superstar players with massive egos. Not a big enough character and has won nothing yet so easily dismissed and ignored by Prima donnas, we’ll see though…maybe.
