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Right. I’m loving how much they want it right now.
This is a team who are ready to fight for each other and the fans.
That’s what I expect from a team. We might yet miss out due to inexperience or injuries, or the lack of a really top striker. But there’s definite progress and I’m enjoying watching us play more, it does seem more direct than the sideways nonsense towards the end of Wenger’s time with us.
I love that we can play both fast, beautiful football for sustained periods and also completely shut games down when we need to, and have developed the wisdom to know when it’s the right time for each. Again, it just feels way beyond their years and current experience.

The more I see it in action the more I appreciate what we’ve done with our recruitment strategy. The modern game is no longer about putting together a team of specialists who each do one particular job to a 9/10 standard - it’s about putting together an entire team of players who can do two or three jobs to a 7/10 standard so you’re creating constant overloads and doubling-up everywhere: 4 attacking players suddenly become 6; 5 defensive players suddenly become 8 or 9. No matter how good you are, there’s not much you can do against overwhelming numbers.