To me it’s the other way around. I don’t quite understand how those of us who are saying we have some really good players here, we’ve invested a lot of money, we should be closer to the top two places and certainly competing with the four clubs currently in the top four, our players are capable of more than what we’ve seen so far… are the negative ones, whereas those who say we’re nowhere near the teams above, the team and squad isn’t good enough, we can’t expect to compete with them and we should be grateful we’re 5th, I mean 6th, I mean 7th… we should be grateful for that instead of looking at those above us… they are the positive ones?
We’ve dropped 19 points from winning positions this season, largely due to our wide open set-up and stupid defensive errors. These things are possible to eradicate through coaching and sensible management. We aren’t seeing any improvement though, and this dates back to the start of last season. This group of players can be organised far, far more effectively than they are currently and I personally think there’s more than enough quality in our ranks to achieve better results.
We should be much closer to the top two, top four places than we are currently. I believe we have more quality in this squad than we have seen so far this season but if thinking that makes me doom and gloom and negative then I find that a bit mad tbh.
Like much of modern football, it’s completely backwards.