Very good postEven if that were true, the likes of Villa have done a full 180 in how they are playing football this season compared to last and executing it like they've played that was for seasons all with inferior personnel almost to a man, when compared to us. I'm seeing instant transformations across the league from one style of play to another as coaches decide - of course, Tuchel getting a tune out of his team almost immediately last season being a beacon for this. We should just remove names and status for a moment and consider how or why these coaches are able to do that - how is Potter playing that kind of football with, forgive the wording, relative nobodies? How did Bielsa manage it last season, and so on and so forth. We need upgrades in midfield, there is absolutely no question about that, but what we have here currently is so far below the bar of what they are capable of that people who have no horse in the Ole in/out race are starting to get anxious.
For me personally, the most frustrating thing of all is the thought we're as close to disbanding as building on top of what we've amassed. Pogba, Cavani and Ronaldo could all be off into the sunset if this season falls through. That amount of quality is not going to be replaced in a single summer, and then we've taken 3 steps back and 2 forward for a net gain of being weaker than we were, once more. This Ole in/out stuff should not have precedence over what is good and beneficial for the club.