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  • I see this as a symptom of our mediocre attacker recruitment during the summer. We brought in Merino (while I know he’s capable of scoring, it’s not his biggest strength), and Sterling on a loan (who I had low expectations of but he has still underperformed overall IMO). Meanwhile we got rid of ESR and some others (Nelson, Vieira - though TBF they were dead wood).

    We have excellent resources in defense, but we are thin in attack. And the strategy seemed to be to hope we got no major injuries, which was incredibly naive. So when Odegaard got injured we were screwed. We need 3 or 4 quality attacking players to challenge for the title. But honestly, with 3 losses already, and the fact that the January transfer window is notoriously difficult, and now with no Edu… our title challenge is likely done for the season.

    Good to see Area is giving the likes of Nwaneri and MLS more play time. That’s a good idea. Hopefully they can both come of age this season and add a whole new dimension. But we can’t hope for a good if teenagers to full in like that. Spend big in January, if we can. Or just resign ourselves to trying to get a CL spot and regroup for next season.