I’m a pretty optimistic supporter. The last 12 - 15 years have been pretty impressive and substantially more so when compared to the same time period prior which is when I began as a fan.
We’ve been slowly building something at this club with the training ground and the stadium not to mention the steady rise up the European club rankings. Even though I think we have had the best starting 11 in the league once, if not twice, in the last 5/6 years, we have been let down due to missing some ingredients: squad depth, winning mentality and luck. I think with the recent additions, we now have a really good squad with the most important being a backup to Kane. We want to be able to put our best team out against the toughest teams and we need them to be fresh, this allows us to do that. Jose, along with his recent recruits, also bring that winning mentality which is incredibly important. Not sure if people noticed but if we can get out our preferred starting 11, we will have 4 national team captains in Lloris, Son, Kane and Bale. You get picked captain because you’ve got a strong head on yeah and these 4 do. The last is luck which is something we’re not known for. We need the last minute peno against Newcastle types games to disappear and we can’t have another injury crisis. I think one of the reasons Liverpool have done so well over the last two years is because they’ve been able to field their best 11 on countless occasions.
With all this, I’m cautiously optimistic. All of the other top 6 teams have flopped in at least one game so I don’t think we’ll see that runaway leader like we have in the last two seasons in the league. I still think the objective should be top 4 and a cup, preferably the Europa. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet as we’ve been doing great in seasons all the way up to February but this week sure felt good. If we can get to the League Cup final and win, at the same time be within 5 points of the league leaders and still in the other cups, then I will really start to believe this will be a special year.
COYS!!