Well, let's take
a look at last season's team sheet.
Whilst not disputing that we do need goalscorers, if
you look at last season's league table we were not flirting with relegation purely because of lack of goals.
Look at last season when all the big teams were failing for various reasons, it was Leicester who stepped up and capitalized and was Wenger who found a way to give the PL title away.
You can
look at last season for the kind of shooter Crabbe can be when surrounded by talent.
Wenger isn't perfect but please keep in mind that the team he has now is made up of many panic buys from the board, just need to
look at last season and how Wenger wanted Lacazette but the board bought Perez who never had the trust of the manager.
Just
look at last season.
Arrington is staring blankly at the Redskins» 1999 highlight tape, a game - by - game
look at last season, set to a disco beat.
If
you look at last season's stats, Szczesny's score is higher than Cech's, De Gea's, Lloris» and Hart's, but a distance too, in spite of the 6 - 0, 5 - 1 and 6 - 3 maulings.
Turner has played the Pelicans what, 7 times maybe in that two years (didn't
look at last season, but he missed a game this season)?
However,
I look at last season when we spent # 100m + and sold no one, thus making a transfer window Loss (as most fans seem to prefer) and ask if that made it a successful window.
Alexis would have stayed on the right as that is the position he played when we bought him, he has scored more from the left though and done better on the left, just
look at last season!
Looking at last season, we had 51 points after 22 games and still finished fourth but we seem to be doing things the opposite way around this time.
But imagine somebody who knows nothing about football and the Premier League specifically
looking at last season.
Just
looking at last season's ticket counts, we tracked just under 15,000 tickets per game during the regular season and just under 48,000 tickets during bowl season.
If you just
looked at last season, it's hard to find any signs that promotion will be on the cards next year.
Not exact matches
A baseball
season, especially
at the start, can
look like it's gonna
last forever.
So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The
Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA
at awards
season, is
looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.
Then, when I recently
looked at the calendar, really
looked, and saw that August is slipping away, I knew that it was time to freeze some blueberries, make some raisins, and pull out those crusts for the
season's
last berry tarts.
It's a paradox that's left me in pajamas all day on most days, scrounging around
looking at bits of writings or piles of pantry things to eat, dusty relics of
last season, forgotten pieces of dried, unused edibles.
Recall
last season where Alexis
looked visibly shattered against Zagreb, then he was played
at Norwich with the outcome of a two - three - month injury layoff.
The Spuds will regret what their manager — Mauricio Pochettino did
at Westfalenstadion
last night by resting some of his top players as he has now
looked to have thrown away the Europa League title, the only title Spurs could win this
season.
He is dumb, (not the first stupid red card he received against PSG), he is slow (
look at the goals we scored against Chelsea and against Basel and ask yourself if Giroud could have been part of that), he's fragile (went missing we needed him most
last season and not scoring for some 15 matches), and he is arrogant (doesn't score for 15 games and puts his finger to his lips when finally scores).
Our full - back roles are somewhere to
look at, with Nacho Monreal turning 31 in February, and with Debuchy definitely in his
last season, not to mention the wealth of injuries currently challenging us
at right - back.
However, he has constantly been held back by injury problems, and a loan spell
at Bournemouth
last season was seemingly a real snub as Arsene Wenger
looked elsewhere.
Look at the first half of
last season.
so please, put this statistic aside and just
look at his performance after the first 5 easy runs of the
last season.
Opta - powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com have taken a closer
look at Petr Cech and analysed how he has fared in Arsenal's opening games against his performances from
last season.
After a summer of big spending, the new arrivals certainly
look likely to continue
at Old Trafford, with van Gaal attempting to revolutionise the squad
at United after their highly disappointing 7th place finish in the Premier League
last season.
Last season we were second, and you would normally expect a manager
look closely
at exactly what is needed to move up to first.
Borussia Dortmund centre - back Mats Hummels» name has also been mentioned again, as United still
look in need of further additions in defence after losing Nemaja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand
at the end of
last season.
Alexis may not have been
at his best for us
last season but he still often
looked like our most likely chance of scoring and he also tended to come inside a lot due to his desire to score and his frustration about the team's lack of incision.
Remember that Bautista is going to be 36 and is
looking for an expensive, multi-year deal, even though he
looked like he was slowing down
at the end of
last season.
He «s had some very fine attacking players but they do n`t
last long, a
season at most, and then they
look jaded.
Ince spent the final months of
last season on loan
at Crystal Palace, impressing sufficiently under Tony Pulis for Palace to be linked strongly with a permanent move for Ince, but it
looks as though Steve Bruce has won the race and will be bringing him to Hull City for next
season.
Pellegrini's previous history in the Champions League was thought to be the answer to the club's European woes, but he
looks set to crash out
at the
last - 16 stage for a second successive
season.
Our first league game of the
season,
at home to West Ham, may
look like a nailed on three points, especially with the way we have been playing over the
last few weeks, but the Hammers are already into competitive games in the Europa League and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a tough game.
The Nigerian spent
last season on loan
at Stoke City, and he impressed despite never really getting a
look - in during his time
at Stamford Bridge.
We're exploring the
last 20
seasons, from 1997 through 2016,
looking for teams that were good
at finding solid contributors, teams that found the occasional All - Star, and teams that found those rarest of griffons, the MVP candidates.
You only need to
look at what happened
last season after Gazidas talked about making some changes with a director being brought on board.
As for our backups, we have the youngster Rob Holding, who has
looked very nervous
at the start of this campaign after his heroics of
last season.
Johnson, who
at the end of
last season looked like the Wolverines» best RB (320 - yards and 4 touchdowns in five games), clearly has high expectations for himself for the upcoming year.
Liverpool gave the English top flight some life
last season as sheer momentum gave them a thrilling eleven - game winning streak just
at the right time as they
looked like causing a major upset and winning their first title for 24 years.
Look at MC, they had missed a 6 mil player, Victor Kompany more than they would have liked and you couldn't really say that they had not tried to find quality cover / starter for this position given that they had spend 30 million plus on what initially
looks like two top centre backs the
last two
seasons.
But seeing our current strikers got written off so easily by fan just piss me off Giroud is not there with Aguero, Rooney, Costa — But I take him over Dzeko, Remy, Falcao (
at MU
last season) Walcott may or may not be the answer, we don't know yet, the
last few games
look very promising — writing him off as not be able to play as Center Forward or can not hit the 20 + goals per
season now is premature.
I mean
look at carzola, he says outright without hiding that we need a striker... about finishing strongly, we did that
last season and the
season after and the other after after a first leg screw - up... maybe ramsey loves his friends in the dressing room but saying that we need a few quality wouldn't have hurt anyone... we weren't able to beat the chelsea that hez talking about
at home even with a full squad so i don't get his reference plus other teams are strengthening strongly and will only get better... man utd with a mediocre team played us like we were some kids FH
at OT and we had no injuries... IF WE DO NT SIGN STRIKER we are doomed cz it» l be harder to beat even the small teams
to put it simply Dez, we have
looked at tape over the
last few
seasons and while there are some things we love, there are some big changes we need to make to be competitive (remembers the Eagles SB win like a solider remembers war)»
So Arsene Wenger's name is being cheered again, Arsenal
look good for a UCL quarter - final place and we seem to be on the up in the Premier League as well, heading for an away game with a Liverpool side about as far removed from the confident, dangerous and in form outfit that took us apart
at Anfield
last season.
There are a lot more «toss - ups» this
season than there were
last season at first
look.
«
Last year he was absolutely sensational
at the end of the
season for United and now I am
looking at a young lad that has been given a new deal, but been taken out of the firing line, not playing much football now.
I
looked at the final college
seasons of all the first - round quarterbacks from the
last decade, and their careers went a ton of different ways — some of them turned out to be massive successes, and some of them were busts.