Quote Originally Posted by bbrian View Post
All good stuff and all that ..but we are still in 5th place and have conceded more goals than all above us . I too have been happy with the new regime , but a manager that relies on pressing needs to get results early for the players to buy in fully ....very easy for them to tune him out otherwise
City and Liverpool have had two of the best starts to a season in the history of English football and we are only 7 and 8 points back so the league is still very much on. Under Wenger we were usually out of it by now. And we're one of three teams within 2 points of each other battling for 3rd. And we're on a pace for 81 points, last year we finished with 63. That with a new manager, new style of play and relatively little net investment.

Hard to understand how anyone can't see this as a huge step forward at this point.