I imagine we’ll now have another round of “who’s to blame for our demise” over the next few days with the inevitable cunt-offs between Levy sympathisers and haters.
Here’s my take.
The Club - Has made mistakes in recent years. Bad recruitment, taking too long to get deals over the line, poor contract management of our players and under-funding have left us in a precarious position squad wise. The lack of a striker low on my list of reasons to be upset. The lack of a credible DCM, a good right back or left back a much bigger problem.
The players - Poor today. Too many seemed apathetic and making silly mistakes. I still believe we have an excellent XI even without Kane and Son and they’re not showing it.
Jose - Really needs to buck his ideas up. Jose has had very simplistic tactics for a number of years; be defensively solid and rely on quality attacking players to get you goals at the other end. He needs to adapt and modernise and quickly. He has been tactically outmanoeuvred by Lampard twice this season, that isn’t good enough. As with any manager, the poor quality football is acceptable when coupled with results. When we are losing and getting played off the park by Leipzig and Chelsea, it isn’t. What frustrates me most is that I believe we have a team who can go toe to toe with both those sides. I’m not saying we are at City or Liverpool’s level - but those 2 we absolutely have the quality to outplay and beat. Jose doesn’t believe that, and I’m finding that infuriating.
I think you are being very naive if you think are squad, in this state, can compete properly with a team like Leipzig. In the Bundesliga we they are one point behind the team that beat us 7-2.