Arteta finished 8th with 61 points on his first full season. 1 point more than Ange has with 3 more games played, after not only having a preseason, but also 1/2 a season experience in the PL with the players.
Spend is incomparable, do you think a 21 year old Ben Davies goes for 12m in the same market Lewis Hall goes for 28m? Do you think Brennan Johnson goes for 40-50m 2 years before Mane is sold for 35m?
It doesn't matter if we spent 65m (Ndombele), 5m (Dele) or they came from the academy (Kane)...
Ange is doing better than Poch did in his first season.
We also already had most of the players that fit his system, we just had a mixture of injuries (like we have had this year), players underperforming (like we have had this year), Young players yet to fulfil their potential (like we have...
This thread at the moment is eerily similar to this Poch thread around the same time in his first season.
We made 5 transfers the summer after (Son, Toby, Njie, Wimmer and Trippier) and challenged for the league...
Lloris, Walker, Vertonghen, Rose, Dembele, Eriksen, Lamela and Kane a probably get in this team if we are honest.
Poch started with a squad that finished 6th the season before.
Past spend is incomparable, player prices have changed a lot in 9 years.
That is because the stats you are looking at is "Last 356 days" which includes his time at RBL.
@Trix was posting stats at his time here. He has dropped to 84th and 85th percentile respectively now though,
Lots of possibilities on this one.
- He is prioritising implementing his style over fixing it.
- Its a different "problem" to the one he had at Celtic.
- He is, but the players are having trouble implementing the fix.
- Maybe they are not just "mistakes: but just part of a learning curve and we...
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