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I’m not saying he gets five years playing like this with this level of success or otherwise. We do need to see some improvement - a way forward.Give Jose 5 years? Are you kidding. I respect his previous success in terms of trophies but the football is depressing to watch and long term it's just not acceptable. Plus we are witnessing the horrible football without any success.
It’s always been just once more though. The most successful we’ve been is by giving a guy a few years.
Do you honestly believe we don’t spend money, and never have.
Yes, but only because they earned it. Improvement had been seen.
I always hold him up to the chelsea 5-3 and Woolwich top corner days......that was the player about to break the world class barrier
Fair enough. Personally, I think he’s getting more exhausted than he’d like to admit carrying this team.
I still think he’s having to do a little too much water carrying. I appreciate any midfielder in a Jose team is going to have to do the defensive work too, but I’d like others to be focussing on that.
Not a chance. His whole career has been built on a certain defensive way of playing and he won't change. The last two games mean nothing. We had a few games earlier in the season where we scored goals and played decent but these games are not the norm. He doesn't apologize for low block defend first, concede possession, attack on the counter football. His ideal is to win games 1-0 or 2-0 but you need exceptional players to get away with it and understanding fans to accept that style of play
Or good defenders.
The last few years before he left Vertonghen was by far our best centre back and that was even when toby was playing well. Toby helped transform us defensively but jan really came into his own and was a real leader at the back and classy too. Sorely missed.
TBF, the difference someone like De Ligt would make to any club's defence would be utterly massive...which is why he sold for £80M.
I remember a time the feeling on here was that he wasn't needed and Toby was so much better!
Yea blame the manager for the 10 stragglers
It's always irritating when people like you try to pass off some nonsense as if you know what you are talking about
The Dippers spent less than £18m more than us on defence. Woolwich £26m more.
Year/Team | City | United | Liverpool | Chelsea | Woolwich | Tottenham |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19/20 | Covid | no | accounts | released | as | yet |
18/19 | £475 | £553 | £470 | £399 | £347 | £403 |
| 17/18 | £499 | £582 | £451 | £445 | £386 | £376 |
| 16/17 | £473 | £581 | £364 | £361 | £423 | £306 |
15/16 | £393 | £515 | £302 | £335 | £350 | £209 |
14/15 | £353 | £395 | £298 | £319 | £331 | £196 |
Total | £2.193 | £2,626 | £1,885 | £1,859 | £1,837 | £1,490 |
