We could have been owned by the Americans who bought Swansea and then that would be a disaster. Disappointing is the adjective, we are not where we wanted to be given the investment.
We cannot let that cloud that almost all the decisions you could see a reasoning behind them. We've been screwed multiple times due to outside factors including:
- Rom wanting to go before Moshiri even took over
- Giroud not signing to replace the above when that might have been the key signing to take us forward
- Chelsea not letting us sign Zouma, Gueye leaving for PSG and Silva's assistant coach going, when it looked like we had a decent team and the run of results from the turn of that year would have put us 3rd or something.
- Carlo deciding to upsticks as soon as Real came calling.
When you have to keep rebuilding from the start it's going to be difficult.
What was our fault was buying in 4 no.10's and Iwobi. But let's face it we could have a squad of world class players and something will come along to mess it all up.
One persons disaster is another persons inconvenience mate.
One fans opinion of Moshiri being a disaster vs another fans opinion of Moshiri being a huge disappointment is 'meh'
All those bullet points there... that's football.
On taking over;
Moshiri commented: "There has never been a more level playing field in the Premier League than now."
Despite that, I'd say - competitively - we've gone backwards.
Look at our defence, I'd say only Pickford is better than what we had prior Moshiri;
Pickford > Howard
Baines > Digne
Jagielka > Keane
Stones > Mina/Godfrey
Coleman in 2015>Coleman in 2021
I was going to do the 11 but got bored - 2014/15 Lukaku, McCarthy, Mirallas, Naismith, Barkley, Pienaar, Osman walk into our team.
It's pretty depressing I'm really lacking any optimism that under Moshiri, who is allowing this board to operate, are we going to become competitive. In 2019 we had the board talking up challenging for titles - I mean... come on.
