sledger
Spanish_Vicente
It's kind of mad how quickly that invincibles squad just disappeared though.
Vieira and Edu left the summer after the invincibles title win.
Cole, Campbell, Lauren, Pires and Bergkamp the summer after.
Henry, Lehmann, Ljungberg and Gilberto (I think that's when he went anyway) the summer after that.
Only surviving members after that were Toure and Clichy (WAC).
So half the squad totally gone within two years,and more or less the whole squad basically gone within three.
Granted that some of these players aged/got worse and would have needed to be replaced anyway. But FMD it's no wonder the club fell away from where it was.
Edit: not helped by the fact that the replacements for some of the clubs best ever players were players like Eboue, Almunia, Senderos, Denilson and Bendtner of course. Dark days.
Vieira and Edu left the summer after the invincibles title win.
Cole, Campbell, Lauren, Pires and Bergkamp the summer after.
Henry, Lehmann, Ljungberg and Gilberto (I think that's when he went anyway) the summer after that.
Only surviving members after that were Toure and Clichy (WAC).
So half the squad totally gone within two years,and more or less the whole squad basically gone within three.
Granted that some of these players aged/got worse and would have needed to be replaced anyway. But FMD it's no wonder the club fell away from where it was.
Edit: not helped by the fact that the replacements for some of the clubs best ever players were players like Eboue, Almunia, Senderos, Denilson and Bendtner of course. Dark days.