This is what wrong with the Cafe at the moment, one half saying we are crap and other claiming we are a lot lot better on paper and its the manager fault.
Insane you think that is a good team or close to our best team, without even comparing to city's team last night.
Nothing wrong with having different views. It is hard to know how much credit/blame should be given for the players compared to the manager.
What we do know was that we got second under Mourinho the season before, but Ole took over us during a Mourinho meltdown.
We have declined since then in terms of the results apart from a bright start under Ole for 2-3 months.
Poor recruitment could be a big factor for that and the owners/Ed could be blamed for that. Natural decline another due to age and form/confidence factors which you can give mixed blame for dealing with. Coaching and management as well and Ole will be blamed for that.
I think it is mainly the first and last one. We sold our best striker without replacement and invested in the wrong type of players for our needs in my opinion.
We reduced the squad size and does lack options in many areas.
Also the coaching doesn't seem to bring out the best from our players. Little improvement in collective performances in terms of breaking teams down.
We are also terrible at defending set pieces which is on the manager/coaching staff.
With Bruno we have finally added something we really needed. So hopefully that makes a difference even if we need more firepower up front too.