Because we sell our best players & don’t replace them, or replace them with different types of players.
We sold Lukaku what, 15 or so years ago & still haven’t replaced him. We’ve signed forwards, he was a goal scoring striker.
We sold Gana who was our best player, meffs on here saying we needed to look for better when was about nobody better in the league than him at DM. Gbamin may be a replacement & may turn into a similar player, but we needed a ready made enforcer.
We also chased stupid players for stupid money, not replacing a striker but bringing in 3 or 4 number 10’s who have already come & gone except one who is now the fans consensus choice of not being picked. Stubborn as anything for Siggy, paid double what he was worth when we could have spent that money more wisely on 2-3 players. Bolasie, Schneiderlin, Niasse, Tosun all disasters we overpaid for as well, I’m sure to be missing names as well
We also held out for Zouma, it seemed it would go through but had to be last minute. But then, it doesn’t go through...Zouma’s comments afterwards made it pretty clear he was unlikely to join well before the deadline yet we did nothing about it.
But the biggest annoyance for me is some of the talent our last few managers have alienated, shut out of consideration but would instantly improve our team by being a point of difference. Deulofeu, Lookman, Vlasic & Barkley all criticised and out of favour but yet to see any criticism of Siggy or Walcott for not pulling their weight or earning their much larger pay checks.