I'm not sure we failed to prepare. If you presented me with the same question regarding the CB situation, Fab/Thiago again, I'd have made the same decision. You cannot bargain for VVD and Gomez picking up season ending injuries within 2 months of the season. That's just rotten luck. Had we spent £20m on an average CB instead of signing Thiago and then Fab & Henderson both done their knees we'd be in an equally bad situation as we are now.Indeed the 'go again' last season wasn't supposed to happen, the hangover of the emotion of 18/19 was supposed to stop it.
Failure to prepare for the season with Lovren's departure has caused a massive drop in form, sacrificing your best midfielders to play CB was largely going to have only one result. (Granted not this bad but I didn't think the rest of the league would be this bad either, someone should be way further ahead)
Sometimes **** just happens. Unfortunately for us that **** has coincided with a lot of other rotten luck. I just saw this tweet regarding our lack of goals:
After nearly 90 shots you'd have thought that one would have taken a deflection and gone in, the keeper wouldn't have pulled off one of the great saves we've faced or maybe even made a mistake. Things just aren't going for us.