Country: England
Okay this is all getting a bit much now. I was asked if I think narrowly missing out on 4th with our squad is impressive by the manager. The only reason it was narrow imo is because chelsea and United (and Sp**s to a lesser extent) performed a lot worse than they should have. That’s why I mentioned them in the first place.Well you say Chelsea had a bad season and they fell off from being title contenders, and you call them our rivals.So did you expect us to challenge for.the title last season? Should we consider man City and Liverpool also as rivals last season? I didn`t expect us to be a part of title challenge and thus from the title challenge perspective, I don`t see them as rivals.
United had a very poor season and that is clear to see with their points total. We did finish 11 points ahead of them though and were closer to Chelsea in 3rd spot than United.
The point is only that Sp**s had a good season. Your total points at the end of the season is the only objective indicator of how good or bad a season you had. The Sp**s fans and many other football fans thought that Conte improved them a lot too. The "disastrous season" you are talking about which caused a change in the manager is a bunch of 3-4 disastrous games after the first month last season which as @Jayramfootball pointed out, is short term form. We went through multiple such 3-4 game sequences including our start to last season.
That’s subject though so let’s leave it at this:
I don’t think 69 points with W22D3L13 is that impressive of a season for a European level team that is out of Europe and got knocked out of the FA cup early.
13 losses is more than one in three games lost. Not being happy with that doesn’t mean I have an agenda.