Manchester City defender Kyle Walker is convinced we cannot crown Arsenal the Premier League champions yet, even though his club continue to struggle.
After Everton defeated the Gunners, fans expected City to beat Tottenham and close the gap between both clubs.
However, the Lilywhites earned a hard-fought 1-0 win against the champions and now Arsenal’s lead at the top remains intact.
City has uncharacteristically been poor in this campaign, which means Arsenal could win the league if they continue to earn victories.
But Walker believes it’s too early to rule them out and there are more points to play for.
The England defender told Sky Sports:
‘Of course it is [a missed opportunity].
‘They dropped points and we needed to pick up points to close the gap, but there is still a lot of football to be played.’
Just Arsenal Opinion
Our loss to Everton was a reality check and we were lucky that City also dropped points, but we cannot afford not to win matches like the game against the Toffees.
Our boys must maintain their high standards in every game and ensure they emerge victorious every time they step on the pitch.
We must never forget that City has won several league titles in the past and know what it feels like to succeed, so we must watch our backs while performing.
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Sadly for City, it’s no longer about the football. It seems they’re not “winning” anything, they’re buying it.
When clubs are in trouble, players start leaving. They won’t be leaving this season, but their minds will be on where they want to be next season.
I’ll have a massive sense of schadenfreude if all these overspending teams actually get their comeuppance. Today City, tomorrow, perhaps… Chelsea?
All you people screaming for more spending… see where it gets you.
Arsene Wenger will be raising a glass to justice tonight. I’m joining him.
Think it’s early days and may just be into the speculative phase, but with so much mud throwing on the wall some may very well stick.
Very interesting days ahead for the Citizens.
Arsenal was,is, and will always remain the greatest.
Not Ferguson, Pep, Jose, or Klopp could do what he did for as long as he did on a small budget and having to sell our best players to pay off the stadium.
Hang your ignorant ungrateful heads in shame all you plastic Arsenal supporters that crucified him.
I never criticised him for not winning everything, I just think we could have been a lot more competitive if we’d been a little smarter in the signings we made and how we handled younger players, particularly with contracts. We changed the wage structure to make it more “equal” for players of unequal importance or ability, and we developed a bratty culture, which led to us consistently losing the players who actually wanted to win (fabregas, RVP, sanchez). We kept giving more money and more prominence in the side to players like Walcott, denilson and bendtner before they’d really earned it because we were seemingly terrified of losing them, and most never reached their potential as a result. It also inflated our wage bill, which makes it hard to argue we were so overwhelmingly disadvantaged – we were still paying as much in salaries as almost anyone, to my understanding at least.
We could have developed a hardened culture against the money that other clubs were spending, instead we became defeatist.
That’s not to say wenger wasn’t great, he was, but only during his first 10 or so years (which is a long time by any measure). His response to big money was poor, though, imo. And I know – it’s easy to criticise. I’m not completely without sympathy.