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Agreed, although it has to be acknowledged that that step down to a "top 4" club instead of a "top 2" club happened when Chelsea and City bought their way in. As I said above, there isn't a "top 2" any more.



Arguably, but one year outside the top 4 and then only by 2 points does not definitively show that. This season will add another data point and right now it's very hard to call where that data point will lie.
We won't finish top 2 but 3rd is arguably and 4th definitely up for grabs. Impossible to tell right now.
It’s acknowledged by the statement that stagnation in this league is the same as going backwards over a period of time

The facts are clear, since the 08/09 season we have failed to go through a season losing fewer than 7 games

Since 04/05 we have failed to win more than 24 games in a season.

We have failed to ever win more than 15 out of 19 home games and average 12 since the move to the Emirates

We average 8-9 wins away from home since moving to the Emirates.

So our average is essentially 21 wins a season, a total that hasn’t been good enough to win the league ever