Not just in the UEFA Cup as you presumed this thread was about, but in general. Now I know that we have major injury problems that have arisen lately but to then write off City as getting nothing from the Emirates is a joke really and we need that winning mentality. Now you can be realistic all you want, but I'd rather be optimistic and say despite our injuries if our defence is good then we stand a good chance of getting a point given Arsenals inability to score.
I just think that with people saying things along the lines of 'we can beat anyone in this UEFA Cup last 8 now and could go all the way' then why can the same squad of players not reach that 7th place and ensure that we're playing in Europe next season? I'm not saying success is imminent, it will take time, but we need to get rid of this small time mentality and we need to move with the times and start looking upwards rather than downwards.
Hamburg will be an hard team to beat but they are without Kompany and De Jong and they'll give us the goss on who to watch out for and how they play on top of the videos that Hughes will play so we stand a good chance against them. The rags, to their credit, have got the mentality that if they lose one game then they'll just win the next one and I wish that was us having the same attitude.
We're not far off, so many of us can see it, it's a squad that doesn't need major surgery in the summer. I'm not buying into all this superstar gossip and all that jazz, I want a team rather than a group of induviduals constructed from a fantasy football website and that's what that Everton fan on another thread was saying.
A player being out injured is another youngster / someone out in the colds chance to make their mark ala Elano in place of Ireland, ala Bojinov in place of Bellamy and so on. I don't care what anyone says if we have Bojinov, Elano, SWP all fit then we've got a chance given our defence and Zabaleta and Kompany in front of them.
So lets believe, lets be positive and lets cheer them all the way to Istanbul. CTID.
I just think that with people saying things along the lines of 'we can beat anyone in this UEFA Cup last 8 now and could go all the way' then why can the same squad of players not reach that 7th place and ensure that we're playing in Europe next season? I'm not saying success is imminent, it will take time, but we need to get rid of this small time mentality and we need to move with the times and start looking upwards rather than downwards.
Hamburg will be an hard team to beat but they are without Kompany and De Jong and they'll give us the goss on who to watch out for and how they play on top of the videos that Hughes will play so we stand a good chance against them. The rags, to their credit, have got the mentality that if they lose one game then they'll just win the next one and I wish that was us having the same attitude.
We're not far off, so many of us can see it, it's a squad that doesn't need major surgery in the summer. I'm not buying into all this superstar gossip and all that jazz, I want a team rather than a group of induviduals constructed from a fantasy football website and that's what that Everton fan on another thread was saying.
A player being out injured is another youngster / someone out in the colds chance to make their mark ala Elano in place of Ireland, ala Bojinov in place of Bellamy and so on. I don't care what anyone says if we have Bojinov, Elano, SWP all fit then we've got a chance given our defence and Zabaleta and Kompany in front of them.
So lets believe, lets be positive and lets cheer them all the way to Istanbul. CTID.