Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
Yes Poch was fortunate to inherit Kane and Eriksen but they were there from the start of his reign. By 2018 we had started to go stale with the lack of squad refreshment. In football if you standstill you go backwards and we went backwards masked by the Poch's system and the believe he had from the players.
We stagnated and the squad is still suffering from that period now. I keep repeating myself but the squad players are now starters, and not because they rose and took their places but because the previous holders left or broke the backup defence is now THE defence.
We needed to add to the squad in 2017/2018/2019 and not just in 2019nby then it was too late and too much work needed to be done to the squad all at once and the man who needed to make those changes for the sack before he could do so.
Levy set him up to fail. No one likes to hear that, but it's true.
I appreciate that opinion, a lot of people hold it.
I think players should continually improve until their bodies physically degrade, and even as that process starts, mental attributes should continue to rise, if they don't I consider that a failing of them and the coaching staff.