I’d agree our squad is probably better than about 5-6 teams, problem is the word “probably” pretty much entails that there’s not a lot between us though. It also suggest the small gap in quality could be bridged by tactical nous, injuries and bad luck etc
I’d have last season Leicester had a better squad than Forest, Bournemouth and Everton
They went down due to having one buffoon in charge to long and another out his depth.
This is why I couldn't understand when people were turning their noses up at the likes of Michail Antonio, Kelechi Iheanacho & to a lesser degree, Che Adams. It's a very TWF thing to do (to stick noses in the air at these types of player), because they're not "exciting" enough on paper. I think we can all appreciate that none of them are peak Ronaldo, but equally, all three of them would offer Premier League experience, would hit the ground running, would offer more goal threat than the anonymous Fabio, would have the ability to press from the front and ultimately, all of them would have improved our squad.
When you look at the other clubs in/around us in the league, the following clubs have:
Bournemouth: Dominic Solanke
Burnley: Lyle Foster
Palace: Edouard/Mateta
Everton: Beto/DCL
Fulham: Raul
Luton: Carlton Morris/Elijah Adebayo
Forest: Awoniyi
Sheff Utd: Archer/McBurnie
There is no logical explanation as to why we should be scoring less goals than those teams - so ultimately, it has to be down to tactical/mindset issues. My confidence in GoN wasn't exactly high when we first announced him, but I was willing to give him a chance. After 4 games, I'm starting to move towards agreeing with those posters that have mentioned their concerns that the Man Utd performance is starting to look like a one off because GoN hadn't had much time to implement his own ideas. Since then, as the squad has spent more time with him, we've gone downhill and the most recent performances (even with a win v Everton) are setting a worrying trend. Then we've got his post match presser where he's already starting to witter on like Lage.
We're clearly going to stick with him, but to already be talking about the Luton match being a "six pointer" - how have we got ourselves in to this position?!
We are lucky that some of the other clubs in this division have the shite listed above within their ranks. We have good players in our squad, but we'll only keep our head above water if they are managed properly and right now, from what I have seen, and trying to be as fair as possible, I worry about the manager and I think he could single-handedly lead us in to a relegation scrap that we don't need to be part of.
