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This is the reason why I was so pissed off at the lack of investment in the summer. Not that we'd be in for the title or top four or owt, but Ferguson going was always likely to be the biggest single event in the history of the Premier League. It was always going to signal a sea change and open the league up. Suddenly loads of teams look like they could do something, and the sheer domination of the usual clubs is in serious doubt for the first time in the last 10 years.

 

And we did virtually nothing to try and capitalise on this. Infuriating.

 

Yep. The summer was absolute carnage really; top three teams all changing their manager and, obviously, Sir Alex leaving. This season was always going to be very different.

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This is the reason why I was so pissed off at the lack of investment in the summer. Not that we'd be in for the title or top four or owt, but Ferguson going was always likely to be the biggest single event in the history of the Premier League. It was always going to signal a sea change and open the league up. Suddenly loads of teams look like they could do something, and the sheer domination of the usual clubs is in serious doubt for the first time in the last 10 years.

 

And we did virtually nothing to try and capitalise on this. Infuriating.

 

Did it surprise you though?

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This is the reason why I was so pissed off at the lack of investment in the summer. Not that we'd be in for the title or top four or owt, but Ferguson going was always likely to be the biggest single event in the history of the Premier League. It was always going to signal a sea change and open the league up. Suddenly loads of teams look like they could do something, and the sheer domination of the usual clubs is in serious doubt for the first time in the last 10 years.

 

And we did virtually nothing to try and capitalise on this. Infuriating.

 

Did it surprise you though?

 

Nope.

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This is the reason why I was so pissed off at the lack of investment in the summer. Not that we'd be in for the title or top four or owt, but Ferguson going was always likely to be the biggest single event in the history of the Premier League. It was always going to signal a sea change and open the league up. Suddenly loads of teams look like they could do something, and the sheer domination of the usual clubs is in serious doubt for the first time in the last 10 years.

 

And we did virtually nothing to try and capitalise on this. Infuriating.

 

Agree - imagine what we'd have been capable of this year if we'd bought a tricky winger, a massive centre forward and a defender.

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This is the reason why I was so pissed off at the lack of investment in the summer. Not that we'd be in for the title or top four or owt, but Ferguson going was always likely to be the biggest single event in the history of the Premier League. It was always going to signal a sea change and open the league up. Suddenly loads of teams look like they could do something, and the sheer domination of the usual clubs is in serious doubt for the first time in the last 10 years.

 

And we did virtually nothing to try and capitalise on this. Infuriating.

 

Did it surprise you though?

 

Nope.

 

That's the thing under the current regime, not single amount of hope.  You can almost predict what they think in terms of transfer policy.

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This is the reason why I was so p*ssed off at the lack of investment in the summer. Not that we'd be in for the title or top four or owt, but Ferguson going was always likely to be the biggest single event in the history of the Premier League. It was always going to signal a sea change and open the league up. Suddenly loads of teams look like they could do something, and the sheer domination of the usual clubs is in serious doubt for the first time in the last 10 years.

 

And we did virtually nothing to try and capitalise on this. Infuriating.

Tbf, I doubt anyone was looking up at the top of the league after the way last season ended. Any movement would have been with the intention of staying up and consolidating a midtable standing. It's still rubbish that certain needs weren't addressed though.

 

I believe the season ending top four will be exactly the four holding those positions currently. The order will change quite a bit, imo, but I see none of the other sixteen sides challenging for the CL.

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Goal difference is always an interesting indicator of how dominant teams are irrespective of their position. Liverpool's is second only to Man City, which is really impressive considering their ridiculous home form. FWIW we finished 5th with only +5, which shows just how narrow most of our margins of victory were.

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