I do love how people so easily saying we’re better than Liverpool and Arsenal....
The last two years' PL tables would suggest so, and nothing really happened in the summer to suggest that things should have changed
It's not the last two season anymore. And judging by this years table, there is not much between the teams. It's outright naive to say we are clearly better than them. We aren't. It's very close between us.The last two years' PL tables would suggest so, and nothing really happened in the summer to suggest that things should have changed
It's very simple.
More money and better players.
Considering the financial gap between us and the rest of the top six, I'm very happy.
Give us a Hazard and we would win the league or at least have a chance.
Eriksen is great but ATM a spent force.
I do love how people so easily saying we’re better than Liverpool and Arsenal....
A spent force? Really?
Last time I checked it’s about this season. Chelsea won the league one season and the next were nowhere. Arsenal have already beat us and likely go ahead of us in the league this weekend, Liverpool very close to us in the league. You can’t talk like we are definitely better than them this season, especially playing at Wembley....The last two years' PL tables would suggest so, and nothing really happened in the summer to suggest that things should have changed
Last time I checked it’s about this season. Chelsea won the league one season and the next were nowhere. Arsenal have already beat us and likely go ahead of us in the league this weekend, Liverpool very close to us in the league. You can’t talk like we are definitely better than them this season, especially playing at Wembley....
Not sure how you come to those percentages but for me it can be summed up far more simply. We aren’t any better than Arsenal or Liverpool in the league points status. We could end up finishing higher than both those teams, equally we might not - it’s not like we have massively superior squads to either of them. What I know for sure is we can’t sit here and definitely say we are better than Liverpool or Arsenal right now. I think a couple of decent European and domestic performances are getting to some fans heads - maybe that’s the problem for our players too....Chelsea didnt have European football last year which benefitted them massively and their summer transfer activity didnt improve them. Arsenal's summer activity didnt improve them either, and I dont think Liverpool solved their problems in the summer, so the last couple seasons performances are very relevant and I do think we're better than both Liverpool and Arse (for clairty, I dont think I've said that we're 'definitely better' than chelsea)
If you were somehow able to play this season 100 times over with the same squads etc, I'd expect us to finish between 2nd and 4th perhaps 70% of the time (in/around Man U and chelsea) and 1st perhaps 10%-20% and 5th or 6th for the other 10%-20%. I'd also expect Liverpool and Arse to finish 5th and 6th more often than not. Clearly this season could be one of the 10%-20% of times when we'd finish 5th or 6th
You're obviously entitled to your opinion though