Klaus wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
As for not reinforcing the squad in any way "no matter how bad things got" - things are not bad, what you guys are talking about is how bad you think things will get.
They might, but do people really think we can buy cover and back-up that matches the quality of those injured as well as buying a world class striker?
The problem is that we won't do either.
We don't have to make signings who match the quality of the players who were injured, and we don't have to replace players like for like. But we need certain traits that our current lot won't provide. We need players who can make vertical runs, stretch a defence and score goals. We need them wide or in midfield as much as we need one up front. For instance, you don't lose Walcott for the better part of 2014, in a team that was already struggling to finish off chances, and think that Gnabry is enough to see out the season.
I wasn't one of them, but when Walcott got injured quite a few said we'd replace his goals with goals from Santi, Wilshere and Podolski.
That has actually happened even though I was very skeptical about that being so.
Scoring goals has not been a problem since Theo's been out.
For me we've got to concentrate on what it is, and was, that has served us well this season - committed, spirited performances, efficiency with our chances and defending leads to grind out results.
A few weeks ago everyone was loving our not so great to watch but effective approach.
Now, and I reckon it's because they're watching City blow teams away, people are freaking out about how bad we are.
I genuinely have a hard time getting my head around that.
