This week has truly been a week of ups and downs. While it has been a week of mostly upsets, it still gives us a glimpse of what is there to be seen in the future.
To start, it was the match between Manchester City and Chelsea that captured the headlines. They really ran riot over the champions. While they may claim to be a superior side (which they actually are in many ways), Manchester City is just beginning to dominate, especially the top four. Maybe it’s just a new side which is coming up and I will agree that many of the supporters of the traditional teams will pass it off as a lame joke, but I feel that given time this team has the potential to squeeze into the top four with ease. They are just like …ummm…Real Madrid….they get the best new players every year so to gel up as a team takes a lot of time but nevertheless, if they do, they will be a force to reckon with. But it highly seems unlikely. Next year a new batch of players will be storming into the Eastlands while the older batch will be moving out. But the next three years they are bound to win something if not a lot of things.
One of the teams who have the money but don’t want to spend is Arsene Wenger. This guy has created two groups in the Arsenal fan-base: one who loves him and the other who hates him. He is a manager who can turn a stone into diamonds. But Alminia, Fabianski? These are players who are of no use and should be thrown away. Arsene Wenger had more than six months to find a really good replacement and he came out with nothing. Till the time they don’t find a good goalkeeper, they won’t win and it is an honest statement from an Arsenal fan. And some day Arsene’s stubbornness with the money will have to give in. This year he knows that he doesn’t have any reasons left unlike 5 years ago. The club has earned record profits so money issues don’t seem to be the problem anymore. I can’t seem to understand how a team likes this goes down whenever they seem to have everything by their side. Nevertheless it’s a wakeup call before the ‘BIG 4 ‘clash against Chelsea.
Chelsea has finally found a team that they can expose their weakness every year with ease and they have a lot of tougher tests ahead. They have been having some bad days since last week and as the competition heats up even more. They have arsenal. Manchester, Tottenham and Liverpool all to contend with and they will be pushed further their limits. I don’t agree with Mancini though: Chelsea can be frustrated on their best days and last week was a shining example.
Manchester united again went down to a draw and they were surpassed by a much superior Bolton team who made sure that the former champions stayed with a draw. How this will impact the rest of their future prospects are yet to be seen. Talking about their arch- rivals, nothing seems to be going the Liverpool way as every frustration is slowly building up into something or the other. From losing to a fourth division team in Carling cup to the mass movement against the Yankees, Liverpool is like a ticking time bomb ready to self destruct.
Until next week……
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