Sorry but ill agree to disagree. Your first point.. ok i dont think its possible but taking it as the basis and saying ok strong top 4... i cannot agree in any area with your assessments. Look at rb... look at cb.. you keep saying ideal but the players just are not what you said was required... imo of course. Imo we've a half decent team but with 3 clear 1st 11 gaps. Fill those gaps and we might have a decent bench to go start to compete in a year without europe.
Ok but didnt you say ideal to clyne and flanagan? For me thats kot a top 4 and a strong back up. Thats a maybe top 6 clyne and a total bag of averageness as back up The cbs are likewise. I see lots of errors in there. I just think we completely lack any top top players and as such theres nobody to pick the rest up. Weve not attracted one and continue to not attract any. Firmino is not a top top player. Coutinho has not developed as id like and sturridge is always injured. Lallana is not even europa class imo and can has a lot to learn and improve on. Henderson is better as far away from goal as possible chasing about. As much as id like mane to be the next john barnes for us hes got to deliver consistently and only time will tell In my life time we had rush to aldo to rush to fowler to owen to torres to suarez and now weve lacked that top striker and we can only hope sturridge and origi to step up. We had dalglish then Beardsley then barnes then mcmanaman then gerrard but since gerrard aged weve not had a player creatively to make the goals... coutinho does it may every 4/5 games. We need more. Look at cb. When i was young hanson and then hysen came in briefly then we'd muck at the back til hyplia came. Now im afraid they are just like the 1990s again. Really average players and lots of them. When will we see another really strong cb partnership? The team needs culling yes but it really needs that injection of quality to change it round. Just even 2 players. I dont care if they are developed over two years but we need a coupke stars to lead the charge.
Kante ran down the line after scoring and was embraced by Conte. Commentators have got job in their hands!.
Really surprised by Kante. Thought he'd give it one more year, as Vardy stayed and their in CL and he's still young enough to get a move to another big team next year If he wanted it.
He would have to play well for another year to do that, he never caught a big teams eye before, he may never do it again. Why take a chance when the offer was there.
So he has no self belief that hes good enough to play for a big team... that'll work out well for him this year then.
Don't think the size of the team makes a difference, the self belief does though (unless you think he can't "step up" ).
