Listened to radio last night and the sports editor for the Times (forget his name) made a good point.
He said that yes the club is underachieving but we shouldn't be surprised by being mid table because the players we invested in have either played there entire career at that level (Downing, Adam, Enrique) or the young players have never developed beyond that yet (Carroll, Henderson) and to expect them all to immediately turn into a top 4 player because they signed for a big club was never going to happen.
It just so happens that none of them have made the step up with maybe Enrique being the exception.
Had never thought of it like that before but still think we should have expected better from them.
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