The new year has arrived, and the landmark of weeks had just closed.
It was on January 2, and the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal had. In a sense, moved two points clear at the top of the table with a 1-0 win against Newcastle United, it seemed quite logical at the time, but another felt absurd ,
Only seven days earlier, then Arsenal the best, so the division of the table of Southampton said wiped out were 4-0 and of belonging to a count of points that would be more than any other season appeared the last decade.
Again there was chaos 2015-16 Premier League, Wenger was taken when this frantic unpredictability was indicative of a league or otherwise.
"That is the question that people are asking right now," said the Frenchman. "If this is the worst in the league history, or is the best championship ever? I have not been analyzed, but it can go either way."
You can.
This is a question that the Premier League this season will depend on, and with strong arguments on both sides. To his followers, the current campaign is to enjoy something with entertainment, diversity, volatility and unprecedented opportunities; his critics, was the environment able to enter due to lack of high-end quality.
At all times, it is estimated that the question inevitably cease to be relevant would that previous status quo eventually resume. But no, astonishing increase of Leicester City continued. Tottenham Hotspur rose. West Ham United is. the middle class of the league could be stronger than ever.
In the middle of this, have hardly been the traditional elite of the country in a position to understand what is happening, the question of Wenger, remained relevant. It is so in the summer, too, and also at the beginning of the next season due to the change of scenery What loom: Pep Guardiola is to Manchester City, Chelsea and Antonio Conte - Although Jose Mourinho Manchester United (and vice versa?).
It seems juicy, and it is important. England has always had an obsession with the manager like no other and a love for stories head to head that come with it. But it goes beyond that.
As for Wenger line, Heavyweight these patterns and heavyweight - Clubs are very relevant here, since their success or failure of the next season tells us a lot about it -.
While Guardiola and Mourinho Conte (Jürgen Klopp, also) restore to fight the normal operation mode, the argument has to strengthen the Premier League will become a free for all brutal, and which is a precursor 2015-16 instead of an outlier. But if you succeed, if they do, especially with conviction that reinforce the argument that, in contrast to the failure of the traditional elites are exactly what they created.
The question is then: incoming clients can rise above the chaos?
ODD ANDERSEN / Getty Images In fact, the increase was in this chaos multifaceted and somewhat at a loss, but what is certain is that the main driver was the surge of money before the form of the Premier League.
Thanks to the 5140000000 £ According to historical TV rights by the league last year signed (the agreement does not start until the next season, but has not the effects seen during rights abroad adding illustration over £) has 8 billion the first division of England now a landscape loaded in everyone's pockets.
Suddenly, the depth of the template in the league has skyrocketed. English clubs buy intermediate contender players in Europe and no longer have to sell everything they can to stay afloat. Last summer, Crystal Palace makes shopping at Paris Saint-Germain; West Ham went at Juventus shopping, Stoke City fell and remained with the assets of Inter Milan.
Sunderland has more money than Napoli.
The result was a league in which those who have lived in the shadow shrank from any inferiority complex. Now just go for it. West Ham can set view and tell Chelsea. See Bournemouth to States and believe that we are in this full-steam ahead, feet flat on the floor.
Football Premier League back without order -skelter where frenzy is the main theme and reputation means little if it can rise above what might be called a movement.
But, and this is perhaps the key bit is it possible lessons here.
Currently Leicester and Tottenham sit on the top of the Premier League and is almost certain that the season to end like that. For months, it is clear who are the soloists of the Division, however, and the club has a lot of things that normally associated with the leaders: The more stars, the deeper or colossal talent resources.
But still they are there. As? Why?
It is because of tactical consistency.
Michael Regan / Getty Images In 2015-16 no teams were been clearer identities Leicester and Tottenham, and clarity of purpose was surprising.
A King Power Stadium, the history awareness of everything and lovable, Claudio Ranieri, who are the precious-little-guy-speech has diverted much of the splendor and elegance of approach Leicester.
Indeed, despite the blows gardens and the club's success in Scouting, none of it leads directly into what has come to Leicester, unless explosion be obtained on the day of the next game.
And Leicester has.
As they meet each other, it is exceptional. The same applies to its ability to close the gap to reject the central channel team is finally and wreak havoc with a minimum of possessions to avoid. This is a team that has played "two" season just a center for all, but has never been overrun in midfield. A team that performs in the madness, this campaign eight goals conceded since the start of the year. Eight.
Arsenal at this time? 16 Corner Liverpool? 23. West Ham? 20. Chelsea? 17. The two giants Manchester? 14 respectively.
They do not recognize such an advantage, as they simply "fighters" are "bold" or "admirable" or; This happens because you are brilliant, as they have grown and developed, which helped him rise above the growing chaos that affected another method for the light of day.
However, this does not mean that the method is the method of Leicester, is the only one. That's not it.
Especially with Tottenham.
At White Hart Lane Mauricio Pochettino team has created, that of the foxes is very different, but also impressive. Spurs are now extremely athletic, relentless, suffocating and painful to play against. Watford had been suffocated in February after his team, and died, Quique Flores Pochettino man nicknamed "animals".
He's right: first physically overwhelmed Tottenham, then they will play better. Despite leaving with Leicester contrasting, on the general idea is the same; The parties may change, but the identity is not working.
If the identity of the traditional heavyweights fought in 2015-16 and incoming chiefs and their current high rivals looking to remedy this situation.
Jean Catuffe / Getty Images Manchester City, Guardiola soon come to a club in the Premier League points are not a reflection of talent and resources, and have been in a funk throughout the season incoherent.
In the first weeks of the campaign, threatening the city to do all this a non-event, but undermines structural defects. In midfield they are to play easily; in defense, they are fragile, oddly enough, with every issue that exacerbates the other.
In fact, the constant absence of Vincent Kompany has been injured, but the difference is, on this side, as the captain, and if it is not a reflection of a tactical approach lacks elegance and durability.
Atletico Madrid Just watch for contrast. Wednesday were forced to Fielding's Stefan Savic played against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the semifinals of the Champions, Diego Simeone men without the first center in the world defense Diego Godin and, but it made no difference. Two weeks earlier against FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the competition, Simeone could not count on Jose Gimenez and Lucas Hernández is 20th
Also, it makes no difference.
It is an important example of the city: for Atletico, tactical approach presented as a basis for everything to be taken with the talent; in the city, it is the opposite.
In recent years, these shortcomings in the Premier League, but in the current chaotic climate could to hide, were not. The frenzy and intermediate increasingly exposed.
Across town at Manchester United, specific questions are very different, but the presence of a structure confusing field was similar. Sometimes advance States, sometimes it is on the side; Sometimes they are short, sometimes it is long; Sometimes they go fast, other times it is very slow.
The lack of goals pings (42 in 34 games), but this time more conclusive is the lack of identity or personality with Louis van Gaal. Unlike those who run the department, it is difficult to recognize a method or an idea that is accepted at Old Trafford.
Mourinho and Guardiola may no doubt it is what should be in the North West of England, all the way to London, Conte is something that is not too different to be invested.
Licensee challenges, also.
Jordan Mansfield / Getty Images Further Arsenal, including intimate relationship between ownership and the manager to stasis throughout North - impose London, but to oversee the tactical cohesion in 2015-16, Wenger was equally problematic and the inability of the employee.
The current incarnation of Arsenal seems to both the power of the pre -2004 with Wenger and art or incision that was lacking. Now it seems as if there is a change in the attack, a sudden loss of clarity, which has grown even of doubtful indifferent now, the prey is to exist.
Remember that the 3-3 against Liverpool in January? If Arsenal saw bright flashes, but tries to competition in a systematic failure in the end, depend basically in a 6-0-4 playing without midfield?
This game is one of style symbolic of the Premier League season, and said as much about Liverpool than he did Arsenal over. In fact the Reds bubbles night were sometimes dominant over large areas. Twice she took strongly lead.
Klopp's men are 3-2 in the final minutes of a page again without midfielder.
From Klopp talked about the intensity of English football and he is relentless in nature. The Premier League has apparently surprised him even.
"We knew [before arriving]," Klopp said in January, "but we believe that it is different."
The German looked in the chaos of the first division in England for six months, and as one of the senior managers of the game, is arrived two and possibly three more are connected in the coming months. It will be juicy. Fascinating. Full duels and stories to satisfy the appetite of this kind.
Perhaps most interesting, however, is that men and their success or failure of this extraordinary season to speak. You can - Guardiola, Conte, Klopp and Mourinho eventually develop higher identities and tactical methods that have been missing this season in their clubs anyway to counter the growing strength of the league? You can restore the traditional elites again?
You can rise above the chaos of 2015-16?
If they can not be in this season a runaway of classes come to represent. If they do not, at first it may seem like a reference to appear, which is to come.
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