We put it to you that by the end of the season just four teams – one of Arsenal and Manchester City, along with Aston Villa, Bournemouth and Wolves – possibly five if either Luton or Burnley escape relegation, will be happy with the way it’s gone.
With that in mind, we’ve come up with every Premier League manager’s excuse for failure this term, including the ones who haven’t actually failed, because they would have of course done even better were it not for the limitations.
Mikel Arteta – Manchester City
As excuses for not winning the Premier League go, this is an excellent one. If Arsenal win their remaining games they will finish with 89 points, which was enough to win the title last season and a fair few times before 90-plus campaigns became the norm. And Pep Guardiola’s City have been responsible for most of those.
As tempting as it can be to think of the injuries and setbacks as an excuse, we have a no excuse culture at this football club: we must be ready to win.” Looks like it’s a culture that works seeing as Aston Villa are set to qualify for the Champions League and are in their first European semi-final in 42 years.
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