Wise-fan, I have been banging this drum since the beginning of the season.
However, we’re on the transfer front we are stuck with ‘Moneyball’ so we are restricted to buying young players who get Moneyball labels such as ‘highly coachable’, and who the accountants think we can profit off. To be fair, on the money side it has sort of worked – Jackson is an example, not to mention the constant auctioning off of academy talent. But where is the success? The CWC and Conference League isn’t good enough. And even with the CWC, most of the talk was about the revenue it brings in.
And then we have the ‘Maresca System’ which is quite straightforward to negate and demands we walk the ball into the goal after boring everyone to death. We can get success in games against top teams because they don’t set up to frustrate and get goals on the odd counter-attack. Mid and lower table teams are quite happy to deploy this tactic against us and we’ve seen the success they’ve had this year.
The fact Arsenal are getting compared to Mourinho’s Chelsea makes my blood boil because the mix of young and experienced talent is obviously the right way forward.
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