Fosu-Mens
Full Member
Well continuing on from last season, I dunno what you expected. We were fairly lucky to come 2nd last season due to having superman in goal, but we were never near the top sides in Europe and feebly dropped out of the CL at the hands of Sevilla. We also came 20 odd points behind our league winners. fast forward 5 months and why would we have "narrowed the gap?" We signed 2 players, none of which get any airtime so basically have last seasons team which was no where near Juve in the 1st place, where as they have added Cristiano and Bonucci (£231million worth of expenditures in total). Did you think we would run them close or even beat them? We are on a run of one win in like six. Why is this the result that shocked or deflated the fanbase? there is and will be plenty more to get up in arms over, trust me.
Personally i did not expect anything more, but tried to make the point that the average fan is biased and some of them think that we are a lot better than we actually are. Regarding last season i completely agree with you, and i have said many times that the underlying stats from last season does not reflect our final position or amount of points in the league. And that last season, from a statistical point of view, was an anomaly. The reality is, and has been for a number of years, is that most football related aspects of this club is so far behind the top clubs. From the technical abilites of the players, to the playing style, the way we train (assumed based on how we perform), long term planning, governance of the club etc. The only areas we are performing well in are financial, sponsorship and social media... Areas which have little to do with what happends on the pitch. Unless we completely restructure the way this club is governed, we should continue to have minimal expectations going into matches.