Mirth wrote:
Less infuriating if you look at the context. Leicester's defeats have come away from home and 3 days before their Cl games. Mahrez didn't even start against Chelsea today.
Meanwhile we played them in their first home game of the season when their optimism was at its highest. It's not as simple as saying we threw the game away. We should have had a better squad, no doubt, but the circumstances for Leicester have changed since we played them
Spot on. Besides Leicester at home will take many points against our rivals once they get going again.
General wrote:
I think the Pool loss was timely reality check for us and it's had a positive effect. I'm also not sure the club would have desperately pushed through deals for Mustafi and Perez if we'd had a flawless start. Wenger would have probably continued playing Chambers or Holding alongside Kos.
Bullshit mate. Bids for Vardy and Lacazette were made early in the summer, and we were in for Mustafi weeks before the Liverpool game. We were always going to sign an attacker and defender.
I was infuriated as much as anyone by our lack of transfer activity before the season started and the two first results, but context is needed. We got 2 major injuries at CB, our key players came late from the Euros, where we even had to rush one of them, and he got, unsurprisingly, injured. On top of that Mustafi was actually injured himself, so buying him before the season wouldn't have helped.
Looking back at those 2 results annoys me to no end, espcially the Liverpool game, but things are looking great now.
