Oh yes, it’s got the air of inevitability about it… it feels like we’re looking at a bit of a glass ceiling… this season we were so near to smashing right through it … will we be allowed to get near it again ? The dice are loaded, we all know it, but here’s hoping we continue to spring brilliant...
Indeed - the future is still bright, it’s just hard to accept the annual or even biannual reaping of our talented squad… like I say, it is what it is (😂) but it’s a hard swallow at times.
It says much that about Alexis that we’re ‘happy’ to let him go… destination is largely irrelevant, I’m just glad it’s not Chelsea to be honest.
He’s clearly one who genuinely attached himself to the club, unlike a Cucurella for example, his emotion at Villa was about as genuine as it gets -...