Re: **Official Other Games Thread, Season 2012/13**
Can I put this out there? I believe the midfield and attack we had under Jol in his second season, save Bale as he's more of a striker now and Sandro as he's out long term, where much better than this midfield we have at present now. AVB is working wonder's with limited assets at his disposal. We have an injured Dembele, a Past it Parker, an unfit Hudd and Sig and Holtby who are still young. Up front we have Bale who is immense, but 3 we have now I would definitely swap for Keane, Mido and Kanoute of yesteryear.
Lets face it, our team isn't good enough and we lack "Tottenham Players" like Krancjar, VDV and Modric. We have players now save Dembele with Distinctly average football technique and intelligence, so it's no wonder we cannot string passes together. Levy must take a lot of the blame for failure to replace the above.
its a matter of perspective.....even if we had an injured dembele, which in all honesty i put a large proportion of that down to AVB playing him and lennon into injuries and bringing them back too early. its also down to AVB in conjunction with Levy to make sure that injuries to these players dont hamper us too much ..or that we have a different playing style to ease their ommision.
ALL teams get injuries , its factored into the season.....its when you have injuries to loads of key contributors that you can then point to injuries as an issue. which to AVB#s credit he has in fact had to deal with. lennon, defoe, kaboul, sandro, dembele, bale, and others
then Thudd being unfit...i'm not sure where people get this one from.......why is he unfit exactly? he seems just as mobile now as he was back in the day...and if he is physically unfit..why is that under the current coaching team?
parker isnt past it at all, not in 4 months. no way. he is fine...i just think he current coach is giving him license to operate more as a general rather than making him keep things simple like under harry. the stark difference between what parker did for us last year to this year is vivd enough to see that something has changed in his thought process when approaching his duties in game
sig an holtby are indeed young and they are indeed squad players, allowances can be made for having to rely heavily on those two. its isnt fair on them, they arent here to carry us on their shoulders to make CL. they are here though to support those that do. and i think that they are going about it well. i expect more from sig though
i dont agree that we are not good enough. we are plenty good enough, we just are erratic and we dont have a good reliable playing style. i dont understand how people can claim we are not good enough, especially when they look at our personell. i posed a question in the past ...would wenger and SAF or mourinho be able to get us top 4 with our current squad? hell yeah!!! but thats not a fault of AVB though, its not fair to compare him to these people that have more financial power and more prestige in recent years. but the examples are used to show that we have more than enough talent to be good enough for top 4.
levy must take the praise for making us a perennial power house in the league year after year. ever thought of that? not if you actually want to blame levy then no you probably wouldnt think of it. but quite frankly levy has put us in an organic and systematic cycle of relative success year after year...keeping up with the teams that average 40 million plus in spending EVERY off season...and even keep us in striking distance of those that spend about a billion in a 4 years stretch. so what if levy is also self aware that he needs to keep an eye on the business of things....its not like he has monopoly money. it isnt our money which is why we find it easy to blame the guy that doesnt want to take part in the current spending craze . we re in a recession in case people forget
