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It's been a good season if you're looking purely at the results and compared to the car crash that was the 12-13 season.

In terms of an actual transition there hasn't been much improvement at all. We're in the same position we have been for many years i.e. needing to spend another 100m+ to improve the way we play and our chances of winning silverware.

Gross or net? Personally I think we're a decent striker away from winning the league especially with the young players we have coming through.

I think you're being massively pessimistic which is in vogue amongst 6 or 7 posters on here.

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Gross or net? Personally I think we're a decent striker away from winning the league especially with the young players we have coming through.

I think you're being massively pessimistic which is in vogue amongst 6 or 7 posters on here.

If we are to improve the problem areas we won't get much change from 100m. Possible transfers could be a LB, at least 2 CMs and maybe even 2 CFs. 100m is more or less the amount that's been spent per season for the last 3-4 years.

I'll accept the pessimistic tag; it's a fair summation of my feelings right now to be fair. The transition hasn't been much of a transition if we're honest; no young players integrated and Jose gave up on the supposedly new attacking style 2-3 months into the season which he has admitted himself.

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I just saw your quote and you completely misunderstood what I said. Nowhere in that post I was saying that everything wrong this season is Mouirinho's fault. In fact I didn't even mention him.
In the post you quoted I was refering to claims that this season was success, with which I disagree , simply because:
1. we didn't improve our play ( we improved defence but in the same time our attacking play - attacking players regressed - even Hazard in the last two months or so).
Reasons for that are irrelevant (very often I used to say that we need CM and striker to play better, together with attacking fullback and blaming manager for all our flaws in play would be incredibly short minded. I didn't do it with any past manager, and I didn't do it with Mourinho).
The bottom line is we miss some players so our play suffers - story from the last season - very modest improvement, if any. Certainly not enough to call seson success.
Success would be if we got the players we needed already and mastered some blueprint in both attack and defence without winning anything.. Or if we overachieved with what we had er won a trophy. But we didn't and that certainly isn't problem for me, I literally never expected it precisely because of what we have and how we play. Which leads to second point:
2. we did not overachieved. Many say we overachieved in the League. Well, looking in the League table through season suggested so. But if you take look away from the numbers you see Manchester United dropping to the new lows and that's the team that used to knock us out of the tittle race. Then you see Man City, other favourite, who suffes series of injuries of key players during season, with new, very naive coach without experience in premier league whatsoever.
In fact this season was kind of anomaly compared to seasons before which enable Arsenal, of all the clubs, to spend the most weeks on the top and Liverpool to get closer to the trophy than in the last 20 + years.
We , on the other hand, had less problems of the pitch than before, better manager than before, almost fantastic injury record untill the second half of april so I don't get this surprise about us being so better than before.
Decent season -yes.
Success - no.
Way lot of work remains to be done to say so.

I think that's a very fair summary. It's clear that our style will not radically improve through coaching (Mourinho gave up trying all together); it's only going to come about by having better players. That's why Mourinho has to make the right signings this summer. We can't go into next season with the same deficiencies.

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We don't need £100m+ to contend. Look how close we were this year. A good CM+CF is all we need. Lb would be nice but not vital, we have young LB's and could always bring Cole back. The pessimism is strong here.

Last season we were all optimistic and we didn't win a trophy. So the trend is to become pessimistic so we can win....

:Goober:

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We don't need £100m+ to contend. Look how close we were this year. A good CM+CF is all we need. Lb would be nice but not vital, we have young LB's and could always bring Cole back. The pessimism is strong here.

and persist with Ivanovic at RB?

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