Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Well, I think you can judge it by looking at your financial status compared to others. You can also judge it by the performance of your side relative to the quality in your squad.

We are not in kicking distance of City, they are light years ahead of us in the League. We are between 8 and 12 points behind four other sides who are certainly proving to be better than us. Two of those are Liverpool and Spurs who have smaller turnovers than we do and smaller wage bills. We are underperforming compared to those. THere is nothing about the status of the three clubs that suggests the other two should be performing better than us. Considerably better at present.

As a club I think it is clear we are under performing. Asa squad, I am witnessing performances from individuals that are nowhere near where they should be. As a unit we are all over the place in defence and midfield. THere is surely no question in anybody's mind that this group of players is capable of playing better than this???
Yet we won more last season than both of those teams combined have won in the past 5 years.

I’m just not sure the argument that we are underperforming is correct. I think what is wrong is our expectation as fans is wrong.

I don’t even contemplate us winning the league any more when we kick off in May, I did in the past. I know where our place is and I’m relatively cool with that.

It’s the level of performance that grinds my ****. Performance from very good players but players who appear to have little or no leadership.