Haha good one
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Hate to bring footballing cliché into the mix but I can think of reasons evening out over the season. VAR injustice? Injuries? Every team fighting for 4th will experience that.
Getting Top 4 is absolutely a simple objective for the level of investment made.
Feel like some people are driven by discussing the sacking of Arteta before even game one
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Heâs been bigged up this summer, why canât people talk objectives
Pressure is on
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Sure, if you completely ignore all the other teams.
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Semantics
Itâs a clear objective and one of the main remits of his job
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We should be getting top 4, absolutely.
Iâm arguing that itâs not a simple task 
Thatâs why I say good reasons. Refereeing decisions canât be one unless weâre getting massacred every week and thereâs a clear conspiracy against us. I mean reffing sucks but itâs not that bad, and I doubt such thing would happen. If it did he wouldnât even be finishing Top 10.
If the club has a genuine injury crisis(6+ key players injured) for. Long periods you can be softer on him.
If he somehow finishes 5th with 80+ points then that also means the Top 5 were just incredibly good.
You always have to take context into consideration. A job review should be able to clear things whether he maximized the potential of the team or rather available team and there wasnât much else to do.
Ooft this would be a big ask. Not sure if thatâs ever happened before.
That would be a mental season to watch
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Exactly, thatâs why Iâm talking about context. You canât say for certain if he finishes 5th he gets sacked.
Itâs a very abnormal season as it is with the WC in November.
Maybe another scenario is that all sides do shitty and the champion finishes with 70ish points.
This in a nutshell.
This, it is all about context, if we have 7/8 injuries to key players post December and fall short of top 4 by a couple points are people really calling for Artetaâs head?
Remit I expect will be for us to achieve top 4 whilst being more competitive and strong cup runs, hopefully bagging one.
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Well, it isnât really like that, is it?
Failure of an objective should lead to a job review, not an immediate sacking.
We think City hasnât had CL as an objective every season? They already won the PL without Pep.
Considering the context though City simply canât do any better than Pep.
What If we donât get top 4 but win the Europa league?
That gets us in the Champions League
Tbf, I think @DavidHillier initially said Champion League qualification so that still counts.
I would be ecstatic with that but also, that doesnât mean the league finish should be discounted. If we finish 10th and win the EL thatâs alarming in itself. I would say thatâs a job review again to understand why that happened.
Were we shit all season and lucked out a EL win? All about the context again.
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