Quote Originally Posted by LDG View Post
Hate to say I told you so....but I was pretty convinced that getting rid of Cesc was a good thing long term.

Whilst he is undoubtedly one of the best midfielders in the world, we relied to heavily on him. Everything went through him, meaning we suffered when he was injured, and were too slow in getting the ball forward on some occasions.

We're already a lot more direct, and I hope that we'll become even more efficient in that respect. We've buggered around playing tippy tappy for too long, and at long last we seem to be hitting teams more on the break, and with more incisive moves, rather than continually trying to pass the ball into the next.
Cesc in the current squad would be decent. It's the change of full backs and wingers that have really changed things around. We've got more movement ahead of us. When he was in the squad with Henry and co, he was fine. We had players with pace, but then we lost that and brought in too many slow players and too many central mids that don't attack directly.