Sobering stuff that was. Outplayed, outfought and outhought on our own patch by an Arsenal team who realistically have zero pretensions on finishing top 3. It could have been worse too, we were another goal away from it turning into a really embarrassing result, our heads were already down and we could have lost by a cricket score.
So the question is, how bad could it get this season? Obviously we cannot buy anyone until January, and even shrewdly picking up non contract players would require a miracle in order to cover the obvious holes in our squad. Could we possibly flirt with relegation, could we be easily bottom half?
My guess is that we could be in a bit of trouble if today is anything to go by. We looked a poor team to me, dispirited very easily, lacking in ideas going forward. Gerrard looks to me to be nowhere near at 100% fitness, ditto Sahin, while Luis looks like the type of player for whom it wouldn't take too much for him to start casting glances towards warmer climbs. I fear it's going to be a much longer and rockier road than many of us thought.
I feel for the manager on this. He has been stitched up by Kenny/Commolli (I know that will be controversial but I believe it to be so) in that he's been left with a bunch of expensive players on big money who are sh!te. Secondly he's been stitched up by the Yanks, who have made him reduce the wage bill drastically but haven't allowed him to bring replacements in. I back Brendan Rogers 100%. I think he's a good manager, and what's more I think he's a good man. I want him to be given however long it takes and however much it costs to rebuild our great club. It's time for everyone to pull together, but we are going to take a few beatings and we need the fans to be far better at supporting the team than they were today.
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