It looks certain that the winners of the 2021/22 season will achieve in excess of 90 points. If City and Liverpool win all of their remaining games they will finish on 97 and 96 points respectively. If so, it will be the fourth time in five years that the PL winners would have broken the 90 point margin and the second time that the first and second place finishers would have achieved 90 plus points. In fact in the last four years, the average points total for the PL winners has been 96 points. To put this is some sort of context, during his Premier League tenure (20 years), SAF achieved 90 points or more on just three occasions.
To put this into an even starker contrast, we are essentially asking Erik Ten Hag to do something, on a consistent basis, that SAF himself did not do.
Comparing the averages of the three best points scoring seasons for Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea shows that: Manchester United achieved 92 points in the 1993/94 season, 90 points in the 1999/00 season and 90 points in the 2008/09 season. Averaged out and rounded up this is 91 points. City meanwhile achieved 100 points in 2017/18, 98 points in 2018/19 and 89 points in 2011/12. Averaged out and rounded up this is 96 points. :Liverpool achieved 99 points in 2019/20, 97 points in 2018/19 and 86 points in 2008/09. Averaged up and rounded up this is 94 points. Chelsea achieved 95 points in 2004/05, 91 points in 2005/06 and 93 points in 2016/17 . Averaged out and rounded up this is 93 points.
To put it mildly, Erik Ten Hag has a massive job on his hands. Today the benchmark is not just to achieve a 90 point benchmark, but to do so again and again and again. With Klopp agreeing to extend his stay at Pool and Guardiola likely to do likewise at City, we can no longer hope for our improvement to be 'nudged' by the failure of our competitors.
To reach Pep and Klopp levels we are essentially asking that ETH deliver better points averages than SAF. All things considered, is this a realistic weight to place on his shoulders?
To put this into an even starker contrast, we are essentially asking Erik Ten Hag to do something, on a consistent basis, that SAF himself did not do.
Comparing the averages of the three best points scoring seasons for Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea shows that: Manchester United achieved 92 points in the 1993/94 season, 90 points in the 1999/00 season and 90 points in the 2008/09 season. Averaged out and rounded up this is 91 points. City meanwhile achieved 100 points in 2017/18, 98 points in 2018/19 and 89 points in 2011/12. Averaged out and rounded up this is 96 points. :Liverpool achieved 99 points in 2019/20, 97 points in 2018/19 and 86 points in 2008/09. Averaged up and rounded up this is 94 points. Chelsea achieved 95 points in 2004/05, 91 points in 2005/06 and 93 points in 2016/17 . Averaged out and rounded up this is 93 points.
To put it mildly, Erik Ten Hag has a massive job on his hands. Today the benchmark is not just to achieve a 90 point benchmark, but to do so again and again and again. With Klopp agreeing to extend his stay at Pool and Guardiola likely to do likewise at City, we can no longer hope for our improvement to be 'nudged' by the failure of our competitors.
To reach Pep and Klopp levels we are essentially asking that ETH deliver better points averages than SAF. All things considered, is this a realistic weight to place on his shoulders?
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