You are plainly talking around,
what ifs, which is completely baseless and tells us absolutely nothing on why you don’t rate RVP’s first season with us.
We had dramatic late season capitulation in 11/12, the worst in recent memory, with Hernandez scoring the square root of feck all in the final two months, and you think its almost a certainty that we would have won the league with the same personnel in the following season? How are you even so sure? I mean that logic could have been applied to City. Fact is they didn’t even register 80 points but you are so sure we would have did?
There are plenty of players who we could have signed and,
theoretically, win us the league. Its like saying if we signed Ronaldinho and Kluivert in 2001 instead of Ruud and we would have won the league every season, instead of one.
Fact of the matter is, RVP came and he delivered the title to us and he was easily our most decisive player. You can argue that we were not a one-man team yada yada, its just a figure of speech but not very far from the truth.
Some of the goals include:
Opener, 87th minute equaliser and last minute winner against Southampton away
Winner against Liverpool away
Opener against Arsenal
Winner against West Ham and Reading
Last minute winner against City away
Equaliser against Newcastle
Opener against Liverpool at Home
Hat-trick against Villa to seal the title
And its not like he was stat padding against minnows. All these games we were in trouble of slipping away. And we haven’t even talk about the 15 assists he provided.