Biggus wrote:
It's disingenuous to say that without him we'd be mid table as it is a theoretical situation which never occurred.
You've been claiming for a while we're a midtable team! 😆
Yes without him now we're Spurs (if we're lucky), but without him in 2005 we may not have wasted the next 6 years in a pointless wasted experiment- We now know that you win nothing playing Spanish style tippy tappy football in the PL whoopdyfuckingdooo.
I don't believe the reason we've been trophyless is that we've played 'Spanish style tippy tappy football'. I think it's that Wenger failed to put the correct players in place to execute the style as it should have been. It never won us anything, but you can't say it was a complete failure when using it did take us close on occasion.
It's Anzac's old square pegs/round holes argument. The quality of the Denilson's and RW Eboue's of this world is certainly an issue, but the failings were more to do with players who left us exposed due to not having the necessary skills or specialisms for their roles. I can't agree with the viewpoint that the system failed or didn't work, simply because we never gave it a proper chance to.
Fabregas was a great player to build a team around, he got the best out of others and executed properly I think we would have got more out of him. Instead, he was asked to play a role in which his defensive flaws were on show and the back end of the team wasn't rigid enough to support what was going on further forward. I don't think our failings have been due to either Fabregas or the football we were trying to play.
