Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Cesc got his start when we still had legends like Henry and Pires at the club. Wiltord had left by the time Cesc was starting. Most of the Invincibles were playing limited roles in fact. But I;'m talking about Cesc was he was 16 years old.

When those guys had left and Cesc and Cesc was in his early 20s, the goals and assist increased by quite a margin. From 07/08 onwards. 15 goals, 22 assists, 19 goals, 20 assists....he played at his best without the Invincible guy. RVP was often injured and only after Cesc left did we see RVP at his peak. We never actually saw those two at their peak together. The closest we had was in 07/08 when we came close to the title but RVP picked up an injury.

Arshavin had one good season for us. A good player but doesn't come close to Sanchez. Cesc also had Nasri but he doesn't compare to Cazorla.

Pound for pound the squad we have no is a lot better than what we have now but we play terrible football.
That's my point. Cesc developed in a far more productive and gifted environment than that which Ozil was parachuted into. Cesc complimented what was already there. Ozil is very unfairly expected to build something from scratch. And correct, what I said, now Ozil has a proper player to work with we can slowly see the quality of our game trend up. Still in patches, still with great inconsistency. But for the first time in a long time you can see the reemergence of quality. Of course we are still 2 players short. Always 2 players short. If we spend 100 mill on 2 top tier players in the summer, and get that business done early, not only should we retain our two star players but by adding 2 more I don't see why we couldn't go toe to toe with anyone in this league. It's on that knife edge. At one extreme we lose 2 stars and it's back to square one. At the other extreme (which isn't extreme at all and in fact is what we should be doing and should have done a long time ago) add a couple more stars and really push on. I wonder which way the club will go? Yeah right.