SPURS GO BIG ON SHORT TERM, WILL IT WORK?

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I didn’t want to do it, but I am going to. Yep, I’m planting a flag on the whole Antonio Conte thing because I think it perfectly captures the difference between being strategic and reactionary when it comes to the beautiful game.

Daniel Levy has had an up and down career at Spurs. His peak was undoubtedly hiring Mauricio Pochettino. The guy had vision, he was charismatic, everyone loved him, and he delivered as much as one could without silverware.

That’s when things started going wrong. You can luck out in business, catch fire without really knowing why, and that seems to be what happened here. Just look at how many visionary business people that can never replicate their initial success. Steve Jobs did Apple, Pixar, and NeXT… Mark Zuckerburg made ranking babes a billion dollar venture and hasn’t had an innovation since.

Serial success comes from thinking strategically.

After making the Champions League final, Poch was very public about the dip that was coming, but Daniel Levy didn’t have the stomach to take the pain of the rebuilt. Ray Dalio, one of the greats of the hedge fund game, always says that people run from things that hurt in life which is why they fail to improve.

So where did Levy run? To the place of least pain, at least on paper. He looked at a Champions League finalist squad and instead of understanding why it made it that far, he assumed… incorrectly. His assumption was that Spursy in elite football was a thing and there was only one man that could fix it: Jose Mourinho. Why? Because he’s a ‘winner.’

That move made sense to the countless people that talk about ‘elite’ online without knowing what it means. It was clear that the squad he inherited was not going to react well to an old school dictator telling them they were soft boys. Poch was a modern leader, empathetic, understanding, and mentor like. Jose came in, did his usual wrecking ball job, and left a mess. The mess was so extreme, no manager in Europe wanted to touch it. One would assume that the money wasn’t there for the rebuild, Daniel Levy wanted to control things, and their new tech director isn’t that impressive.

They landed on Nuno. A second Mendes shill. What was the thinking there? Is he a master of coaching? No. Is he a visionary? No. Does he play the sort of football Spurs fans demand? No. He’s a coach that shills for super agents. That’s why the Valencia fans heckled him out despite him making top 4 for them. That mistake, which we all saw coming, cost them £10m.

So now they’re at attempt number 3 post-reboot and Daniel Levy has made the most unimaginative hire possible. He’s gone all-in on a ‘winner’ again. Can I knock the talent of Antonio Conte? Absolutely not. He’s a winner. He improves all types of players. He will 100% get an uptick in results because he’s ruthlessly organised.

But what is underpinning this decision?

What is the strategy? Because ‘winning’ isn’t a strategy I’m afraid.

Conte is a short term fix, but for me, he’s a very rich fix for a very different type of problem.

What are the ingredients for 2021 Antonio Conte to work.

He needs to work with good players.

When he rolled into Chelsea, the job he did wasn’t a miracle. He took over a squad that had won a title in 2015 and he made them purr that season. He did a fabulous job, but let’s be clear, Jose Mourinho did the hard work on that squad. They were winners. It was a more elite version of what Emery did for Arsenal over the first 21 games.

He moved to Inter Milan under the guidance of Beppe Morotta, arguably the best technical director on the planet. He was given money to spend, but he was controlled. He beat out a Juventus in decline after they moved on Allegri. A terrific job, but he had loads of resource and elite people surrounding him.

Modern Conte needs money. He needs good players. He needs to make an impact fast.

I’m not sure he has that at Spurs.

There’s a tremendous leadership job to be done as well.

Harry Kane doesn’t want to be there. I have extreme doubts Conte changes the equation for him because being an elite manager in the Premier League at the moment, in all reality, is hardly a game-changer. Being a ‘winner’ doesn’t mean anything in a league with Tuchel, Klopp, and Pep Guardiola. Spurs is a rebuild, Kane is 28 years old, he doesn’t want to be the old man crowning a 3 year journey with an FA Cup win.

Antonio Conte is on record saying that he’d rather kill a player than let him upset the camp. That’s his style. It’s brute force dictatorship. The Italian might have a different approach to Mourinho, but it lives in the same world. Do we think that sort of approach is going to map to the profile of the players? It didn’t under Jose or Nuno.

He also needs money and he will bang the door for it. When he was let loose at Chelsea, he made some pretty dire signings, then proceeded to crash the team the next season… throwing the players under the bus when he did it.

Then you wade into some of the murky details. Conte already said no in the summer. We know he’s on record saying Spurs is second rate. What changed?

Football knows Conte. His team were fast out the traps for the United role because that is the job for him. He’s built for that sort of expensive mess. In my view, if he’s taking Spurs it’s because United told him there wasn’t going to be a job for him, and more broadly, there wasn’t a better offer in Europe. No Barca, No Madrid, No Paris… so Spurs became the only option on the table.

I don’t know how many times I need to say this: There is nothing elite about being difficult to work with in 2021. You can’t be ‘too much of a winner’ and use that to write off bad behaviour. Someone was talking to me on Twitter yesterday, explaining Conte’s eliteness, and in the same breath admitting he crashed his second season at Chelsea because ‘he didn’t get the players he wanted.’ Can you imagine doing that in any other business? No. Because it’s embarrassing. Sulking because you want things your way is what children do.

But… he does win things.

He won the Premier League with record points.

He broke the Juventus stranglehold on Serie A.

He has an aura that follows him from club to club.

It’s a big signing for Spurs and it will feel very good for them right now.

I’m just not sure he’s the fit for where they need to go.

This is a desperate hire. £15m a year for a brand name that will bring a 20 person coaching staff is not how football works in 2021. I am going to be honest here, I’d have been more worried if they’d given Graham Potter or Ten Haag the keys to the castle for the next 5 years. They didn’t, you know why? Because it’s painful.

Arsenal went down a crappier version of this path with Unai Emery. We invested in ‘nearly’ players that looked good on paper but couldn’t deliver. Last summer, we did the same, it didn’t work.

So what are we doing this season? We’re taking the pain. We’ve alligned on a strategy that meets where we are as a club. We’re going to build back based on a Project Premium Youth model. It will be tough because getting back to the top is tough. But you know what? It’s sustainable. You know what is elite? Sustainable models in football.

RB Leipzig is a sustainable model of football. They grow coaches and players and have a standardised way of playing across 4 countries. They can still compete even when they lose Nagelsmann or Marco Rose. Why? Because the strategy is clear and it is ruthlessly adhered to.

Liverpool are peak sustainable. They have a clear approach to how they operate. They have a very specific style of football. They win trophies and maintain an incredible level of football. There’s no drama up there.

Manchester City is another side that does that same. They have a style that has been implemented up and down the club. They don’t fire their manager all the time. They are now developing elite young talent and compliment the side with big signings every year.

Teams that aren’t sustainable?

Manchester United. There’s a vision, but it’s not very good. They buy stars that don’t fit to any particular model. They chop and change their managers. They don’t really progress. It’s a mess because they live in a world of star fuckery. Jadon doesn’t get games, despite costing £70m. Ronaldo gets all the games, despite being 36. It’s about share price over there and selling shirts. They’d be more dangerous with an actual vision that was sustainable.

Spurs might make top 4 this season, but they are not working with a vision of 5 years in mind, because if they were, the chances are, they’d not have hired Conte.

So in short, there’s a lot of glitz, there’s a lot of ‘THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT’ from people that don’t know, and I suspect that all that glitters is not gold might be a truism here.

Well, I hope so. Let’s see what they have. Top 4 just got spicier.

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Ernest Reed

Collect me trophy and nothing more!

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Tropee

Paddy Gooner

I read the post first. 😂

Ernest Reed

“When he rolled into Chelsea, the job he did wasn’t a miracle”

No but he did perfect the three at the back defending instead of the typical four. Successful enough that even Wenger experimented with it and faired none badly for it. Conte will bring new life into an otherwise remarkably boring squad at Spurs. I still think he will implode as his personality will clash with the one you cant afford to clash with, Levy.

Jamie

If Spurs don’t make top 4, will Conte even want to stay beyond the summer without CL cash to spend?

Feels like a place-holder for him until something juicier comes along.

p.s. Pedro owes AFC an apology for penning a piece on Conte/Spurs and exhibiting the behaviour of a weird pant-shitting stalker.

Ernest Reed

So did I, Paddy – but i wanted the clean sweep 🧹

Paddy Gooner

I really don’t know how it’s going to work out for Conte. Spurs should have sold Harry and used the money for a rebuild. The might sell him in January?

Ray+in+LA

agree I would be more unsettled by Potter going to spurs…maybe he’s holding out for city when pep moves on 🙂

NJ Gooner

11th again – same as yesterday!

Paddy Gooner

Just wondering. Anyone have an opinion on the best defender ever to play in the Premier league? I was ‘told’ it was clearly VVD., but I can’t accept that.

Ernest Reed

“He has an aura that follows him from club to club.”

Thats the smell of the glue holding down his toupee, Pedro. Its a hell of a coiff even if it used to belong to a badger before.

NJ Gooner

I clearly need to up my game – like a few on the bench.

Ernest Reed

“agree I would be more unsettled by Potter going to spurs…maybe he’s holding out for city when pep moves on”

And maybe Potter just isn’t in any of the conversations with the big clubs because maybe, maybe Brighton is at the level where he belongs at the moment?

Ovia

At this point, I think it’s clear all Dani Levi wants is a trophy. Antonio conte is the perfect fit for thant how is that not a plan.?
I could easily say the Juventus success of the recent decade was Conte’s hard work, let’s not forget inter are still doing well without lukaku.
Yes he’s a dictator, it’s either his way or the high way. Isn’t that the same with Arteta.? How many players have crossed Arteta and is still at arsenal.?

AFC Forever

Jamie/Tom

“p.s. Pedro owes AFC an apology for penning a piece on Conte/Spurs and exhibiting the behaviour of a weird pant-shitting stalker.’

Yep, it doesn’t go down well on here slagging of Spurs with you, does it.

Tom

Just read Conte’s statement in which he praised Tottenham’s stadium and training facilities but not a single mention of the players he’ll be working with.
Maybe he’s planning on replacing all of them lol.

NJ Gooner

Pedro, I appreciate the sentiment but wonder if your business model of sustainability is that easily translated to a football team. Stakeholders may be willing to be patient if they see major profits on the horizon. Are football fans? I guess that Leipzig fans are pleased to be in Europe. But for how long? And will that model be tolerated by a team with top-4 aspirations in the medium term? You say that Liverpool is an example of a sustainable model, as is Cite. But both happen to have the two most charismatic leaders in the PL, in many ways… Read more »

azed

“Antonio Conte is on record saying that he’d rather kill a player than let him upset the camp. ”

Isn’t this the same with Arteta’s non negotiable?

Sly

Great post Pedro
Spurs and Conte won’t be pulling up any trees this season

Max

Good write up overall Pedro but kinda funny slagging off Zuckerberg like he is a busted flush…. hes 37 and CEO of one of the biggest companies on the planet!!!! At Zuckerbergs age Jobs had just been let back into the company he founded and was sacked from… Zuckerberg has plenty of time to innovate and build more…not that he has to prove anything. And I dont care for him either way but let’s get real here. You’re not a failure because you only manage to build one, currently trading Billion dollar company by age 37. Super Bizarre take

Tom

AFC , surely you must realize Jamie and Tom are two different posters by now.
One forms his thoughts in a highly efficient, elegant manner…… while the other……

I’m all for slagging Tottenham or Conte’s hair plugs/ wig or whatever, but I wouldn’t be confusing doing that with slagging Arsenal fans voicing pretty much reasonable opinions that Conte makes Tottenham a different proposition they were with Nuno.

Dissenter

Conte in 2014 when he was resigning from Juventus; ““You can’t go to a restaurant for 100 euros if you only have 10 euros in your pocket, can you?”, .. .. reference to the Turin Group’s savings budget

He will find out that Mr Levi will give him 11 euros and a lots of coupons to go eat in that 100 euros/plate restaurant.

Demetrios

Pedro – I have the feeling you are trying to convince yourself as much as anything else with this post lol.

He will get results, and he has only moved there because he would have received certain assurances around money to spend.

Hate to say it, but this is a massive move by Sp@*rs that is going to work unfortunately

Dissenter

Demetrios
the Conte appointment going to work, alright but by how much?

Enough to win the league?…HELL NO
Enough to make 4th place? … UNLIKELY because of the evolving competition outside of Spurs.
West Ham aren’t going away, Arsenal will get stronger and Newcastle will start to flex muscles.
There are too many world class managers and aspiring young managers in the league to blunt whatever advantage Conte will give Spurs.

AFC Forever

Pedro “That move (Mourinho) made sense to the countless people that talk about ‘elite’ online without knowing what it means.” This. It goes to the heart of everything. Some people have an obsession about big name managers. Mourinho was this serial winner who guarantees trophy’s – instead he rips clubs apart. Ancelotti was going to do such a great job at Everton that we should be worried but he couldn’t be asked to develop a team so he pissed off as soon as a better offer arrived. Now it’s Conte, who we should be scared of. Priceless. Put simply. Someone… Read more »

Karsa

I have to agree with Dissenter. There are far too many top teams, managers, and players in the PL these days. Conte will not find it easy.

gnarleygeorge9

Will it work? They don’t have much option. They’ve have to appoint someone, that is actually due to fail, otherwise their wretched fans will turn off, like viewers have of CNN 🙂

Let’s be honest here, they had their 15 minutes of fame after ‘Week 3’.

Tom

Dissenter, Newcastle are flexing their muscles already, mostly the sphincter, considering their table position.

englandsbest

Sustainability – or more accurately, self-financing – has always been a keystone for Arsenal, the foundation on which the Club has been built. Not for us the benevolent owner who trows money like confetti (Roman, the sheikh) or the skewed set up of a league (La Liga, SPL) that allows only one or two sides to dominate. How will we manage? More like Ajax than Bayern M (who are in a skewed league where only THEY dominate). A selling club – but one that sells its players when they are a mite past their best. By accumulating the world’s best… Read more »

Ray+in+LA

Ernest

yes, maybe potter is currently at the level he belongs…I am curious to track him tho, I think he offers something interesting in addition to the regimentation

Tom

Poch was charismatic?

TheBayingMob

“and I suspect that all that glitters is not gold might be a truism here”

If you were to be true to Shakespear, it is ‘all that glisters’ …

TheBayingMob

Don’t worry Pedro, by birth he was probably a Coventry or Villa fan so ergo, a cunt

zimmie2652

Paddy,
“Just wondering. Anyone have an opinion on the best defender ever to play in the Premier league? I was ‘told’ it was clearly VVD., but I can’t accept that.”

In no particular order for me it’s a toss up between Sol, Vidic, Terry, Rio and Adams. They can all be chopped and placed interchangeably as my top 5.

Words on a blog

Spurs will improve, yes, but not enough. It’s too late for Conte to work his magic this season. And assuming Levy doesn’t renege on his “guarantees” and Conte gets the players he wants next season he will still have to compete with Liverpool, Man C and Chelsea: clubs with much more resources and equally if not more successful managers. And then he will be gone and Spurs will be faced with another expensive rebuild and rebrand. I definitely agree with Pedro’s view that Arsenal’s Elite Youth Plus model is the better strategy, even if I still have some residual doubts… Read more »

AFC Forever

Pedro

Everyone knows Shakespeare mate, managed Leicester a few years back.

Words on a blog

The Elite Youth Plus is a better strategy because it isn’t so tied up with who the manager is.

If Arteta falls short of getting into Europe this season, whether by getting it wrong tactically or otherwise, we can still retain the core of the squad and go again with a Potter or a Ten Haag.

MidwestGun

OGS all ready in trouble again.. United losing to Atalanta. Still early. Anyhow.. A lot of people riding Conte’s dick.. we will see.. I tend to think he will end up more like Mourinho at Tottenham , then with his stay at Chelski. Have an initial bounce with players wanting to impress.. But will struggle with implimenting formation change and expectations very quickly and we will see how much money he gets to get the players he wants. Anyhow I don’t mind more competition.. it just makes Arsenal better as they will have to stay sharp to keep up with… Read more »

AJ

Hi there, quick one. Is this an Arsenal blog?

Words on a blog

Yeah, bored of talking about Conte and Totts

AFC Forever

Paddy

“Just wondering. Anyone have an opinion on the best defender ever to play in the Premier league? I was ‘told’ it was clearly VVD., but I can’t accept that.”

Good question. Ashley Cole unfortunately must be up there.. Sol Campbell, Adams albeit smaller window, Rio Ferdinand & Vidic. Tough question.

Dissenter

There’s talk that Villa will sack Dean Smith if they lose at Southampton on Friday

No one wants to be relegated from this league

AJ

Im sorry to be a party pooper. My club is on a 9 game unbeaten run, playing some good football, climbing the table and doing us proud. Yet, this blog and everyone is wanted to talk about the shithole down road. I wanna rwad about Arsenal on one one of my favourite Arsenal blogs. Thats it.

Rich

Conte has a good start: Everton (Away) Leeds (Home) Burnley (Away) Brentford (Home) Norwich (Home) Brighton (Away) Should be plenty of points there for whoever the Spurs manager is, they’re only 2 points off 5th, they should average north of 2 points a game over that sequence…. So we’re going to have to put up with the media narrative of : “The Conte effect” “Spurs title contenders” “Spurs top 4 certs”…. And likely a load of Arsenal fans knocking one out over the Spurs manager over the next 6 weeks, as a way to highlight how bad our manager is,… Read more »

MidwestGun

Conte’s record versus Arsenal.. 1 win.. 3 draws and 4 losses. With a better Chelski team then what Spurs have now. Not exactly making me nervous.

GillespieRoadNoMore

The vision thing, funny how most clubs are myopic. In a game of numerous variables and the visicitude of chance there are many routes to the summit, thankfully Spurs seem intent on repeatedly taking the wrong turn, I think it was Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, it is going to be great seeing Levy prove that maxim true, again. They should have painted the exterior of the new WHL Stadium with red and white stripes, the circus is in town and the clowns are having a ball. Conte on an… Read more »

Kroenkephobe

No, it’s an Arteta adulation blog.

Kroenkephobe

TBM
Coventry or Villa fan. Nice.

I told my kid the other night that Craig Shakespeare was William’s grandson. Didn’t bat an eyelid.

AFC Forever

AJ

Yes we’re on a great run. Look a proper team now with an identity. I saw rumours about Asensio no idea if they’re true or not,.

MidwestGun

AFC _
Well for me..
Best recent defender for me was Vincent Kompany. Best historical.. Sol Campbell.. or Tony Adams.

Biggest Cunt defender John Terry.

What was the question Again? oh VVD? Ummmmm top 5 I suppose.

Ronaldo scored 1-1 now. He defintely shows up for CL matches thats for sure.

Habesha Gooner

Conte is a short term fix. He won’t last more than 2 seasons there I am sure. Levy is a dick that will piss off conte whatever happens. So it won’t last long. But what I am worried about is spurs becoming contenders for top 6. This season got harder for us because Spurs have him. It will be the same next season too. A 5 year plan is a good way to go to get longer term success. But that 5 year plan might also fail because things weren’t done the right way or maybe because it wasn’t good… Read more »

salparadisenyc

Conte on that kind of wage… desperate times – desperate measures. Levy rolling all the dice on this, can’t wait to see Conte take a better job once it presents itself this summer.

Saucy goal from Bruno and CR7.

AFC Forever

Pedro

I got into terrible trouble earlier for being unkind to Spuds & Conte. Not our fault they are the gift that never stops giving! 9 games ago some on here were claiming they could win the league. 9 games later they’ve sacked another manager. Now conte’s going to make top them top 4 and we should be scared. Truly unbelievable.

Waylander

Best defender along with the others mentioned Adams and Campbell, vidic, Jaap stam has to be up there as well although he was only in the prem for 3 or 4 years

Kroenkephobe

One thing I have enjoyed reading on here in the past 36 hours is the fine-detailed knowledge many posters possess about the cockerel jockeys. It’s oxymoronic for rivals to know so much about each others’ teams given the mutual antipathy but it also signifies how much we care about Arsenal that we’ve actually taken the time to understand our rivals. Their squad appears so weak at the moment and so apparently bereft of conte-type players that the auguries aren’t that positive. I expect a good few touchline tantrums in N17. Good too that their leadership team now contains a wig-wearer… Read more »

MidwestGun

Did you see Serge Gnabry’s back heel goal… ? pretty saucy.

salparadisenyc

MIddy

Never heard of him, any good?

AFC Forever

Midwest

Kompany is a fair shout.

Ronaldo is something else!

Kroenkephobe

9 games ago some on here were claiming they could win the league

AFCF

Who was that? I read nothing of the kind.

MidwestGun

Never heard of him, any good?
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haha Sal.. unfortunatley I have.. can you imagine Saka on one wing… Gnabry on the other..? . oh well..

Spilt Milk as they say.

Tom

“There’s talk that Villa will sack Dean Smith if they lose at Southampton on Friday No one wants to be relegated from this league“

Dissenter, they probably should’ve fired him last week after he said players win matches and not formations having been asked about his formation change.

Giving Grealish the ball and watching him do his thing certainly solved a lot for Smith last season.

Jamie

“Yep, it doesn’t go down well on here slagging of Spurs with you, does it.”

Citation required

MidwestGun

Might be a sign of the Apocalypse … Tight Var decision goes against United.. down 2-1 now. Literally down to millimeters. Nice.

MidwestGun

Macquire is defintely not on the list of best defenders ever.. hahaha wow was that bad.

Habesha Gooner

United are very poor. If we keep our form and they keep ole at the wheel for the rest of the season, we have a chance to finish above them.

MidwestGun

Juventus game is a stormer.. wide open … end to end.

Jamie

Maybe Unai waits a day or two before signing with Newcastle.

Possibly the only man in world football Bambam would be ok with replacing Ole.

MidwestGun

Emery’s team is winning the CL group at the moment.. If you ask me he would be stupid to go to a relegation battle from that..

Jamie

I think he’s being offered so many petrodollars though

MidwestGun

True Jamie.. not to mention if he refuses he might wake up missing a few body parts.

Radio Raheem

Zapata came with his cutlery tonight. The man has feasted on manure.

That’s the guy I suggested we signed instead of extending Auba’s contract. All history now.

WengerEagle

TR7? 🤣

WengerEagle

Radio?

MidwestGun

Well there’s Ronldo… saving OGS’s job again… Nice work dude. 😀

Radio Raheem

I’m curious to see how Emery does at Newcastle. Emery achieved the most he could with Villarreal last season. Newcastle, on the other, is somewhat of a mystery along with a few fistfuls of euros.

salparadisenyc

Def gotta feel for TR7 and that agenda.

Radio Raheem

Yes WengerEagle

WengerEagle

I’m only messing tbh Radio, think you were actually right on your assessment of Ronaldo hindering the collective.

Still, he has been very impressive in front of goal. We were both kind of right. 😁

AFC Forever

How lucky are Man Utd? It’s unbelievable how many injury time goals they get. Ole is a lucky boy.

salparadisenyc

Zapata will do very well in the Premiere league, love to see him.

Radio Raheem

Wenger eagle,

Like I said he’d score loads but like has been said the team will play for Ronaldo not for ManU.

This is Atalanta, I love them but they’re always up for some entertainment offensively and defensively.

Jamie

He’s a fucking machine

WengerEagle

Ole is the biggest managerial fraud ever, lol Bam Bam doing the no pants dance to that goal I bet.

AFC Forever

Ronaldo ‘s volleying technique is really special. That is such a tough skill but he makes it look so easy.

Tom

Ole masterminds another United result.
The man is a legend.

WengerEagle

37 in February, pretty insane tbh. 9 goals in 11 and how many meaningful/point winning ones at that.

MidwestGun

Ronaldo basically owns the CL. Thats why I said he would be worth the money… regardless of how bad they finish in the League. Still think OGS get sacked sooner then later.

Rich

Solksjaer doing just enough not to get sacked 👏

salparadisenyc

“Ole masterminds another United result.
The man is a legend.”

Truly a man ahead of his time, Ole a modern enigma. Can see Dos Equis tapping him next.

AFC Forever

Ronaldo papering over the cracks. That is not a good team, the midfield is all over the place. They got lucky with a quality individual goal and did the same in the reverse fixture.

MidwestGun

Well the beauty of OGS’s genius is that only takes effect in injury time with arguably the greatest goal scorer ever.. other teams find it hard to see that coming at them. It’s like Ali’s Rope a Dope.

WengerEagle

Agreed, their CM is really poor and lacks any sort of baller/patroller. Crying out for a Scholes type player as Fernandes is not a midfielder, he is a forward.

Pogba is too much of a maverick on only turns up when he feels like it. Rest of their midfield is poverty.

And who cares how good defensively AWB is, modern full back needs to be a 2 way player and he is so bad offensively it is comical and massively inhibits them.

AFC Forever

Wenger Eagle

That’s the point, you’re right he scores important goals. He has that ability not to freeze or snatch at chances. Single handedly keeping them in the Cl & OGS in a job. Really average team.

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