I’d ask the exact opposite honestly, why are people writing spurs on for the league after 10 games?
Arsenal started last season off top of the league after 10 games, similar performance. Everyone told us we couldn’t do it, or wouldn’t maintain it. They ended up being right of course, but to see so many people tip Spurs to win the league blows my mind.
They are one injury away from mid-table form. looking at you, Son
Spurs fans know it, and anyone who knows football knows it. They have a new manager who has them motivated playing a style that’s caught teams off-guard. Chelsea already figured it out last week.
They’re playing excellently, but they will have to keep pace with the winning machine that is City, Arsenal who despite being slower this year are actually better defensively and more controlled (and injured), Liverpool who are getting results despite the swashbuckling, and Newcastle who are clearly on the up and up. Even Chelsea could turn it on this year and end up top 5, it’s so, so early.
Credit where it’s due from an Arsenal fan, I mean no disrespect. But if I were a Spurs fan hearing people telling me my team is gonna win it all, I’d be begging them to shut the fuck up rn.
Nah I agree.
There’s this growing narrative of “yeah he scores a lot, BUT…” or that he isn’t a good team player, or that Kane could do his job at city better, just lots of hot takes around this player rn.
Personally as an Arsenal fan whose been watching over a decade, he’s the best I’ve ever seen.
The amount he can do with only 3 or 4 touches in a game is wild. Every team knows exactly how to defend him, and most can’t. If you go back to his Dortmund days even, when he was like 19, kid was scoring for fun. His career average is a goal a game, which blows the best of the best away. Not even Messi can touch that Stat.
So, he’s like a good 5 or 6 years off from his prime, and given his stature I’d have to guess his prime will come even later, like 8-9 years. So he’s already the best we’ve ever seen, and he has years and years to improve. Besides his goalscoring record, he’s won trophies that some of the greats never managed to. Very few have ever won a treble, on top of all that.
The people that minimize what he’s done and is doing, I feel like just don’t watch him play. They see the highlights, and they go by narratives. But if you asked them if they’d prefer their team’s striker or Haaland, you know what they’d choose.
He broke the epl scoring record. but he doesn’t assist! Le incomplete striker!
His holdup play is excellent. B-But he’s not a playmaker!
He won the treble, broke the hattrick record, broke the scoring record, and averaged a goal a game. BUT IT WAS WITH CITY, LETS SEE HIM DO IT WITH LUTON TOWN
Like, you fucking idiots. He would do it with Luton town. That’s what you’re not grasping lol