Özim wrote:Santi wrote:Özim wrote:Santi wrote:aniym wrote:Santi wrote:How are they outperforming when both have better squads?
Everton's transfer team outperformed ours, that's about it.
How on earth does Everton have a better squad when Iwobi is starting almost every game?
They are Top 4 because they have won more and lost fewer games than us. That comes down to the manager, and not individual talent like DCL.
They have a 10x better midfield which is the crucial point. People really think we have a more balanced squad than Everton?
Also Iwobi has started 13 games, half of their PL games but yeah almost every game. For the most part he’s been no worse than Pepe either, who btw has started 10 games for us in the PL.
That’s because Ancelotti identified the midfield as a weak area and addressed it, we just wasted our time on Aouar rather than having other targets, we could have got Rodriguez for example if we’d wanted to. We ended up with Partey in the end who is good but again we messed about and luckily he had a release clause.
In the end Arteta thought Ceballos was enough and then of course he brought in Odergaard.
As for the squads, we have a stronger squad, Ancelotti is doing a great job with Everton whereas Arteta is doing a poor job, that’s the difference, sending Saliba out on loan was a shocker as has been his use of the players on his squad, let’s not forget he merely stumbled across ESR after being unwilling to play him for months.
I’m sorry but the excuses for Arteta have to stop now, he’s been outperformed by Ancelotti and was also outperformed by his predecessor Emery who struggled with communication and in the end got sacked.
So, like I said in the original post...Everton's transfer team outperformed ours.
Ancelotti has outperformed Arteta as well, at the end of the day Arteta picked the players he wanted to sign as well and he has a better squad that Ancelotti.
I’m not sure why you guys absolve Arteta of blame for this horror show, he’s the manager at the end of the day, he picks the teams, tactics etc and also chooses the players he wants to sign, it’s pretty he’s an average manager and there’s zero evidence to point to anything different.
If he needs to but a whole new team to improve we should pack his bags and take him to the airport.
See it’s not about absolving Arteta of any blame, I’ve said enough times what his mistakes are so hows that absolving him of blame?
All I came in the thread to say was that I don’t think Carlo has really outperformed Mikel massively, maybe slightly but for me they have a better squad that is more balanced and I credit that 90-95% for the difference between our positions in the table.
Carlo therefore 5-10% better than Mikel at best, woop de doo. Anyway we know we won’t agree so it’s all good