EliteKiller wrote:jayramfootball wrote:Our 2021 form is good. It's a factual statement not open for debate. Also not open for debate is the fact that the club do care about it. As a fan of this club, I am hopeful it brings some confidence and helps continue our run for the rest of the year and we're in good shape come Christmas time with a decent chance to push on. :
Our 2021 form would not have made top four - that is a fact - these are the points per game for just 2021
City 2.5
Utd 1.95
West Ham 1.91
Chelsea 1.9
Arsenal 1.86
So whilst you can say are form was good so what? are you saying that West Ham will be better than us next season? or that Liverpool will be worse? simply based on the second half of last season? are you sure about that?
Right now every pundit, AI-bot, journalist has us somewhere between 5th and 10th in their predictions ... sadly that's about right.
One of the biggest perceived weaknesses is our inexperienced manager and our very unbalanced squad ... whilst the squad can and we hope will be improved, Arteta needs another three or four seasons to gain that experience he should have gained before we ever signed him ....
Those are the facts - having a decent run when other sides were focusing on CL or Domestic Cups - sorry that's just smoke and mirrors.
Good post.