I'd say they were on a massive downward spiral (ask me how I know :( ) and had to offload about a full team of starters/pointless high paid backups and start again, so this season being a mid-table BuLi2 makes sense progress wise - otherwise they'd go back up instantly and become a total yo-yo...
The squad is poor but it's not "no win in 15" poor.
This is like Dele's wages going up every time they get mentioned - our players just get worse after every game somehow lol yet would probably walk into teams around us and we don't want to even sniff some of the players in their positions.
Or...
This argument has been why we've gotten 1 purely accidental win since December - not even about aesthetics, we don't look like we're capable of a win at all.
I was told by nearly everyone on here that Lampard was poor so he needed the fans to do his job for him, then Dyche needed it, now Dyche...
Change the story while doing nothing to change the story and trying literally the same thing every game for 4 months is truly a very Dyche thing to do.
It's only as bad as the several other times we've done it - Chelsea just took their chances as they have an actually incredible talent.
We've done this suicide backline several times in some random bid to be "adventurous", but the plan seems to be "run at them early" more than any coordinated...
And allegedly instructs/prepares beforehand.
We play with no midfield to begin with because of Dyche, who says "we didn't have a good enough midfield".
Okay then.
Which is what every team does nowadays - last night even more so as Dyche clearly didn't expect one of the paciest teams in the league to use their pace and we sat high for no reason.
It's also quite easy to go through a static midfield - @nsno-chris I believe shared the average positions in...