It’s futile really, you could argue any position on the pitch or individual mistakes. E.g. David Raya had some bad mistakes that almost cost us, has he not since proven his worth?
Signing Calafiori has no impact on us signing a forward, the lack of options has prevented that while we picked up a hot prospect swiftly before others grabbed him. He could be here 10 years now.
Do we all think we need a forward? I’m sure 80% of fans do, but we’ve also got to be content that we may go into the season as is and that doesn’t make us shit.
It isn’t, I’m not making a false argument with the intention of deceiving anyone, but ok.
You’ve decided it did. If I could be arsed I could find four or five examples of bad defending and say that cost us, directly contradicting you saying our forward line cost us.
Yups. If anything I’d say Arteta’s experimenting in the first 1/3rd is what probably cost us the league - but I wonder whether that experimentation was necessary for us to deliver the 17/18 wins… though the Dubai trip was definitely something else.
Is it common currency here to actually do strawman arguments.
Where on earth did I say that signing an attacking player would definitely a) render more goals and b) be the fix to games where we’ve conceded first and not recovered
Nothing is guaranteed nothing, it just makes sense to do the things that are more likely to be conducive to desired outcomes
So if you lose a game 1-0, your first thing to do is to look at the defending, not the failure to score.
Despite the fact that you can win games if you concede goals, but you can’t if you don’t score them
It might be a valuable example if we weren’t talking about a team that scored 91 goals in the league last year. You should be able to clearly recognise the dishonest framing of the above post.