Quote Originally Posted by ollie the optimist View Post
we arent a weaker team then last season because of the players we have got rid of, none of them were first team players, except gervinho but he rarely played. we are at the same level, others have strengthened though, while we remain the same citing bullshit why we cant sign players.
Don't see how people can't see this.

You got rid of players like Gervinho, Arshavin etc. Now unless you're telling me that the youngsters in the squad are better than Gervinho and the others you got rid of, the squad is weaker. It's really quite obvious.

You have a 22 man squad for example. You get rid of 5 players and promote 5 youngsters. Same squad size but weaker as the youngsters are just that, kids who haven't done anything in the game. Now they may all go on to be CR7 and such but until then, they aren't.