It's hardly that controversial a take. Last year was a low-point among lows for us and Arsenal finished above us. However, in the meantime we've gone further backwards losing the likes of Pogba, Cavani, Mata and Lingard for no transfer fees and without any replacements coming in while Arsenal look like they've made a couple of nice signings and have the likes of Saliba coming back who looked great last year for Marseille.
Yeah, EtH did great things with Ajax but it's not by any means a dead cert that he can replicate that at United without the Ajax infrastructure and supports behind him. De Jong looks likely to be signed at this point and I'm sure there'll be a few more signings but surely at this point in time we can take nothing for granted when it comes to United's future recruitment while Arsenal seemed to have made some promising signings that will improve their first team that already has technically gifted players like Odegaard, Saka and Co.
I mean the two teams along with Everton have probably been the worst run clubs in the league for a few years but I would think that Arsenal's trajectory looks more optimistic than ours until we see evidence that EtH can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
