- Jun 19, 2008
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Can’t say I’m surprised to see us sitting in 9th. Also can easily see Burnley beating Sheffield Utd at home tomorrow and is losing to Everton which would leave us in 11th which to be perfectly honest is about where our players levels are.
Can any of us genuinely sit here, look at our squad and think we are anything other than a mid table side. We have one world class player (Kane), one really good player (Son), and then a few potentially really good players (GLC, Ndombele, Stevie) and the rest are pretty average and are around mid table level. Are any of Dier, Winks, Dele, Aurier, Davies etc any better than what Newcastle, Southampton or Everton have got? Let’s actually compare:
Dier - Lascelles, Vestergaard, Holgate.
Winks - Shelvey, Hojberg, Gomes.
Dele - Longstaff, Ward-Prowse, Sig.
Aurier - Yedlin, KWP, Coleman.
Davies - Rose, Bertrand, Digne.
So as you can see, 5 players who have featured regularly for us are no better than mid table counterparts. I didn’t even use Sissoko as he would be further down the table with the Norwich and Villa players.
Now a massive thing is if you look at those players and compare them to what we had we would have prime Vertonghen, Dembele, Eriksen, Walker and prime Rose. An enormous drop in quality in basically the most important parts of the pitch, i.e the whole defence and central midfield.
We have no money to spend so they are waiting on the young players to mature in Tanganga, Cirkin, Sess, Skipp and White and will look to pick up bargains here and there in the meantime. It’s going to be a very slow road back to us even having a small challenge for top 4 in my opinion. Personally I’m not expecting a top 4 challenge for the next 5-7 years if the model remains the same.
We are mid-table. Totally.
Absolutely no chance of top 4 next year either. It’ll take lots of money and a dramatic turnaround. We’re miles away