You know what elevates my happiness levels even more??
This shithole club is in pretty awful state - in the coming summer, contracts will end for Lacazette and Nketiah.... who are 2 only strikers in the whole squad
Plus contract also ending for Elneny.
I mean okay - striker is just one position, but their firepower in attacking side (if those two leave) will be also shit.
Pepe is just
monumental flop - 80 mil paid and 1 goal + 1 assist in EPL this season
... Okay,
Martinelly seems
promising, but is
hardly making significant progress - his goals per season have been 3-2-5 and across these 3 seasons he is only trusted to play roughly 3000 minutes of EPL football.
Saka is young and I am not sure what his level will be. But despite all the hype - today he is nothing special really. Just
straight runner who occasionally cuts in. I dont see any established EPL defender being afraid to play against him if defense is normally organized. Once more - he could develop, but today he is quite "meeh". And then they have Smith Rowe - who could turn out okay, but still too early to tell.
So literally - roaster of Pepe, Martinelly, Saka and Smith Rowe is just very average. Three of them might be promising, but that's it. At the same time we have two forward players who are absolute EPL elite...
I mean we have some areas of improvement, granted. But this last patch of games we have played without one most likely starting CM in Skippy and starting RWB in Doherty + last two games without Romero as well.
We need and plan to improve the squad further, but if our players are fit, we have pretty decent core to start next season with - Lloris; Davies, Dier, Romero; Sessegnon, Doherty; PEH, Skippy; Son, Kane, Kulu
I think this squad alone is able to play for top 4 places; at least based on this season levels (next year Newcastle might turn up, we'll see what happens to ManUre), but we are still talking about adding competition and depth. But they will be without a player into very important position...
I feel that if we now will take what is ours, qualify for CL, keep and back Conte, we will be lightyears ahead of Arsescum with their fucking lego manager and "youthful squad".