Mad optimism

Arsenal got 25 points more than us last season, despie Henry missing 22 league games. They only managed 2 points off us. They have a second team capable of reaching the League Cup final on merit.
We have got rid of poor defenders who started 41 games between them. We have replaced them with Geremi who we'd not even have noticed if he'd gone to say Villa. We've signed one centre-half (to replace three in Bramble, Moore and Gooch) who should be good, but none of us ever seen play. Our defence is paper thing. We look good with forwards but we can only play two of them.
The great-to-see optimism is too reminiscent of 88 for me. Bring in great goalie, good centre-half, excellent winger and an exciting goalscoring centre-forward, while only losing one good player. Looked great. For 44 seconds