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I can't believe that I'm seeing this tone around some places of "Well it's not surprising that the players are upset and it's understandable blah blah.."
He’ll blame the manager again and fans will fall for it. We never had the squad to compete in PL + cups this year, many fans bought the propaganda that it was managers fault.
Both can be true though. Yes the squad wasn’t deep enough, but he’s not without blame in all of this.
I think his intense style of play meant a strong squad is even more important than for other managers. He’s certainly not blameless.
Those who wanted him to stay, be that fans or players will of course feel flat and disappointed now.. But that's because he was only sacked ten hours ago. There's two months before the season starts. Day one of the premier league is never flat. 2 months is a long time and optimism/hope levels will balance out to normal levels again because thats how people work. The same as it would have done for those who wanted him gone, if he had stayed.
We’ll see about that in 2 months time. One point though- majority of fans in the stadium backed Ange and hate Levy.
Even though it was a meaningless game I was hoping to see some of that momentum translate to the Brighton game. Instead, it was another performance where the players looked woefully uncoached and we got battered. Really don't have a lot of confidence that we would've seen some miraculous turn around next season.
I did say some. But if we're being honest, drunk or not, the performance wasn't any different than any of recent league games.
They played well in the first half but fatigued in the second- good effort while very hungover.
Noted- but that doesn't reflect the majority of fan opinion. Most fans aren't downplaying the EL win as a 'very weak cup'- 200k plus turnout on the streets 2 weeks ago.
