Yeah, I wanted to believe we'd balanced things out, but we fucked it, in retrospect.
Trossard has declined from a heady height and isn't a great starter, Martinelli hasn't come good, Sterling underwhelmed then got injured, Nwaneri's a kid, Havertz is patchy and we can't build our attack around his space-finding, and we sold Nelson, Smith Rowe and Nketiah.
Last season's epic run tricked us into the mistaken belief all these names were as good as having one more Bukayo Saka.
With Saka now out for a couple of months, you can call that bad luck or you can call it over-reliance on an over-played star, and you can have that debate all day—but no one can deny that if you've got two Bukayo Sakas, you're just winning matches instead of having that debate.
