Quincy Abeyie wrote:
As you may remember I thought Leicester won the league when I wrote that. Now the point that stands is that Liverpool came fourth when they signed Salah and I think it's more unlikely to go from where we are to challengers than it was for Liverpool, which was also unlikely.
To sum up, when I say there's no say I can see something happening I mean I think it's really unlikely. That people say "but that's what people said about that team". If someone tells me they think West Ham will win the league next season I'll still say I can't see that happen even if they say "that's what everyone said about Leicester".
Yes, but again, my point wasn't that unlikely things like Leicester happen once in 50 years so maybe we're due one of those years. My point was that things can and will swing very quickly in football when you have good players and a good strategy. Liverpool mounting a title challenge in 2018/19, even when it looked like no one was ever going to beat City, was still significantly more likely than Leicester doing it in 2016 because they had all the structures of a big club in place, just like we do.
You generally need your best players though. Imagine if they had sold Salah after his debut season. I'm looking ahead at next season, and I think we can do really great things with Auba and Gabi. That's one world class forward playing with another world class forward just waiting to happen. A year from now Gabi will be unplayable. Who knows what's gonna happen, in the league or in Europe.
