In my heart I still don't feel it is that bad however when I look back we've followed a similar pattern under Martinez's last two seasons, Koeman and now Silva.You’re spot on when you say this, as history shows this to be unfortunately true.
Leeds, Aston Villa and Sunderland are all testimony to this.
I don’t think we’re there yet, but we’re certainly moving in that direction.
All teams go through ruts, some more than others, but like you say it's almost as if our short run of games where we win are saving us time and time again .
There seems to be no fight or real ability to get ourselves in the right direction; a few gritty, hard-fought wins wouldn't go amiss but we seem unable to do so.
However, we can't ignore the fact that we're now two seasons down the line since selling Lukaku and we've never really came close to replacing him and his goals.
Overall, Richarlison has been positive although he's not a striker. A team who is struggling to make chances and only has him, DCL and Tosun is going to struggle.
Silva (or whoever is here in the summer), Brands and the board need to make sure that's a priority as if we don't fix this then we're good enough as giving up.