This is not personal mate, but I do find that this fear of our potential competitors leads to double standards at times.
Everything you say could equally apply to our own team - who happen to sit 8 points above the team that we are concerned about - after 10 games - and already have the young players in place that represent a much better and promising foundation (with additional room for development/improvement) than Manure's.
A lot of people have said that Sp*rs have been playing poorly while getting results, well last night exposed them - and we also dominated them (and Manure BTW although we lost that game).
Yet we talk up Manure; Chelsea; Sp*rs and Liverpool (who we also beat) while talking down our own prospects of top 4.
I get that Gooners are scarred by recent history, but a little faith in our project wouldn't go amiss![]()