Read a similar story in my paper this morning and to some extent I do agree with him.
We all know that Lucas/Masch aren't Alonso so don't do his job and Aquilani who was meant to be a direct replacement, hasn't been fit or played much this season. And Arbeloa for me is better at Johnson at defending but Johnson is better than Arbeloa was at attacking. Yes, we didn't need to let Hyypia go on a free but when he has played, Sotis has done just as good a job, but argueably did we need to buy him, could we have just kept Sami?
But the sales in the summer is not the only contributing factor to our poor season, it's been other things such as a mixed results, no cover for Torres, Stevie not on the same form as last season...
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