I know all this mate, I've said for the past couple of years that for Arsenal to win a title we would need Klopp and Pep to feck off. I had no expectations of ever finishing ahead of either. The strategy I wanted Arsenal to undertake was to position ourselves as 'the best of the rest', with a young team aiming to peak when Klopp and Pep did decide to leave. So in that way, I certainly had no delusions.
Take that into account, and how I perceive what we are doing currently, I view that as exceeding my expectations. Perhaps that's why I still see things through a positive prism, rather than looking at the negative.
Ryan says I've not learned from Liverpool's experience? I have learned though. I know what City and Pep do in a title race, I know the points they achieve, that's why I dont make any bold predictions about beating them, that's why I don't get too high or too low on the team, I'd have thought after a decade on here that would come across by now.
I don't take anything for granted either. I think we are in a good place, I think there's areas of obvious improvement, and I think the club know that and recognise that. But that doesn't mean I'm saying we'll automatically improve and become a 90+ team and beat City to the title, and I don't know where its a assumed I've said that in what I've posted?
Never said you did. (Often the 'you' is a general comment, meaning 'Arsenal'.) But what I'm saying is, you'll (Arsenal)
have to automatically improve. Not 'maybe'. This is the consequence of being the team trying to push City to the absolute limit. But already, there are Arsenal fans saying, well, KDB's getting older and Walker's getting slower, like City will won't make the adjustments to replace them. Maybe all this will change when Pep's gone. Or maybe the game itself is already gone.
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