But despite those many complaints as expectation levels have significantly risen since the dark days of Steven ‘Look Me In The Eye’ Gerrard, this is a campaign where we are four points from the European spots once again, through to the knockout stages of the newly revamped Champions League tournament, and have just qualified through for the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first time since I last had a full head of hair.

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The Tottenham Hotspur game also gave multiple reasons to be up beat about the remainder of the campaign and what we may again be able to achieve. It was a busy January transfer window as we continued to juggle Financial Fair Play obligations, and it was somewhat sidetracked in the end by Jhon Duran deciding to end his promising career early by retiring to Saudi Arabia and reading between the lines, fans are the only ones who will miss him.

This did mean though that the often speculated rumour mill move for Paris Saint-Germain’s Marco Asensio was not the only incoming deadline day deal that we struck, as we moved incredibly quickly to secure Manchester United’s out of favour Marcus Rashford on a loan deal. The England international has already agreed a permanent move in the summer should we decide to use that option and the press have not gone hungry with their faux anger at the deal going through.

Despite all the talk about fitness, match minutes and form, the 27 year old looked every inch the part as he made his substitute debut for us and he more than showed signs of striking up a good understanding with a number of our players. He was not the only highlight from the victory though, Andreas Garcia looked like he had been in the right back spot for over 12 months, and with all the talk about Donyell Malen being infuriated to miss out on our CL squad with new registrants being capped for the knockout stage, he also in no way looked like he was making only his first appearance for us either as he led the line incredibly well and really should have opened his club account given the chances that fell his way.

Asensio also looked every inch the part in his substitute bow, and some of the little passages of play that he was involved with were an absolute delight to watch.

Add that to Meatball looking back to his very best, Morgan Rogers continuing to better dominate games on an offensive front and then an incredibly self assured showing from youngster Lamare Bogarde as he stepped in for the injured Ezri Konsa, our attack now finally looks less predictable and multi dimensional and that can only serve us well moving forward.