Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
I personally think the league is the only competition we can manage if we are competing for it this year. I don't believe we could manage Europa on Thursday and then league games over the weekend. If everyone is fit then yes we have the squad, everyone is never fit though, it's not like these muscular injuries are one-offs, we face this problem every single season and more often than not it's the same set of players out injured throughout the season. I don't even know why Wenger is surprised, Walcott, Ramsey, Wilshere, OX, Rosicky & Arteta always miss large chunks of the season, they have done for a while now. Take them out and our squad options are decimated.
But where has this illusion come from? Being second in early November? We should all know how many times we've seen this. Nothing has created our downfall in the league before now. We've had no extended CL runs, always out in the next round. Just two extra games. So all we've had is the PL to concentrate on for years and where has that got us? We can't talk about cotton wool around our players to save them for some mystical glory run in the league when there is nothing to say the exact same thing won't happen again. Just go for whatever we can because otherwise we are just narrowing our own chances of success, star struck by early season form that has burnt us for years on end.