We have the strongest and most balanced squad post-Fergie

alexthelion said:
Yes, we may be better on paper, unfortunately the game is played on grass. the players we have at the moment continually prove that they're not as good as a lot of those teams you've listed.
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That is the point?

We're talking about our squad on paper, we should not be this low in the table.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
We're 13th
We have a better and deeper squad than Palace, Brentford, Fulham, Bmouth without question (that puts us 9th) and I 'd argue we have a better one than Brighton and even Forest.

Pool, Ars, City, Villa, Chelsea, Newcastle (basically because they have Isak) I think it's fair to say have a better squad overall. With Newcastle and Villa it should be much closer, everyone has just revised their thoughts on our players since this season has been so woeful.
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Yeah I'd still agree that it's a top 6 squad most days, unfortunately players and collectively teams have bottom and top levels and I think our gap is huge.

It seems like people have decided this is our level but a few players and better form and we'd shoot up the table next season.

Not having a prolific goalscorer kills any team dead.
 
Smores said:
Yeah I'd still agree that it's a top 6 squad most days, unfortunately players and collectively teams have bottom and top levels and I think our gap is huge.

It seems like people have decided this is our level but a few players and better form and we'd shoot up the table next season.

Not having a prolific goalscorer kills any team dead.
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It doesn't if the system makes chances in general. Arsenal top scorer was Saka with 16 for example and they should have won the league. We do need the front 3 all getting into double digits though, I think that's the minimum when you can't sign a Haaland or Isak level goal scorer.

Even just going off last season though, Hojlund scored 10 goals in 30PL games, that's very steady PL striker level for a central attacker, regardless of how they play. His near equivalents were Nunez 11 goals, Havertz 13, Wood 14, Wissa 12 and his goal per game of 1 in 3 was pretty solid without being amazing. We should be able to work at that level and build off it but we just fell off a cliff.

I'm all for writing this season off but I hope we see improvements coming now, I feel like it has been long enough for them to get to grips with the basics of their roles. We have to see something.
 
Hester_manc said:
Name 2-3 20 year old players, who are better. Garnacho is a fantastic talent
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Gavi, Joao Neves, Savinho for starters. There's quite a few let's be honest, at least if we're accounting for players even younger than him which we should.
 
DannyCAFC said:
Gavi, Joao Neves, Savinho for starters. There's quite a few let's be honest, at least if we're accounting for players even younger than him which we should.
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Garnacho is at this level too. He has a long period now where, like the rest of the team, he is underperforming. But he is, as I said, part of a team where everyone, with few exceptions, plays worse than what their talent warrants.

Garnacho has already shown that his peak level is insanely high, but many fans have a tendency to forget that when things don't work out for a few months.

I would see selling Garnacho as one of the biggest mistakes we have made for many years in terms of selling players.
 
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