Speaker said:
bluemiester said:
That's absolute rubbish, it's not fact at all. Last season most pundits and experts were saying you played the best football in the country. This season there were times when you were booed off by your own fans.
It's not a ridiculous to point out your success without Modric. It wasn't to suggest you were a better team without him, but that you'd already shown you were perfectly capable of getting results without him. You just don't like it as it doesn't support the way you want to view things. I'm not saying Dembele is as good as Modric, but he's still a very good replacement. But the key point is that no matter how you spin it, Arsenal have lost have lost a far more important player.
You only finished a point behind them last season and as you say from the stat I showed you, RVP was worth way more than anyone else in the Premier League. You are both weaker, but Arsenal significantly more so than you. It's plain as day, but for some reason you don't seem keen to acknowledge it. This leads me to believe that you weren't a fan of Redknapp's and thus want to believe that things have improved by sacking him. When in reality things aren't really different.
We are 3 points better off than last season from the corresponding fixtures. That is a fact, not an opinion, a quantifiable fact. To achieve this with the rebuilding, amount of new faces, new system, and mountain of injuries we have had deserves more praise than you are willing to give.
I'm giving the right amount of praise, as I'm comparing with other actual football teams. Arsenal and Cheslea are also both better off an have too made changes. You are trying to make out as if Spurs are alone in bringing in new faces and losing big players, but it's the same for all clubs and even more so for you main rivals, Arsenal.
I've not been critical for the fact Cheslea have closed the gap on you, as it's too be expected given the players they brought in. But at the same time to try and claim any real progress when Arsenal have lost a far more important player than you, is just plain biased. The other team around you last season was Newcastle and they've had an absolute nightmare with injuries. Everton seemed to have closed the gap on you, but didn't lose any major players, unless you think Rodwell counts.
At the end of the day, you can spin it however you like, but there is no way of getting around the fact that very little has changed among the top 3-6 teams that can't very easily be explained by a quick glance at recent transfer activity. To try and deny RVP leaving Arsenal hasn't helped you more than losing your players has effected you, just seems very disingenuous to me.
I think all 3 of yourselves, Arsenal and Chelsea will win more points than last season, as the Prem in general seems very weak. So comparisons of points between this and last season don't really mean much. I wouldn't be surprised to see both ourselves and the rags get over 90 points this season. They look like they might score over 100 goals.
