It's Quiet 17 - Glory Thread

Eoiyflem said:
We missed out on the CL because we missed about 15 clear cut chances across both legs and pep effectively threw the FA cup semi. You could argue walkers injury hindered us in Madrid but be honest, we battered them across both legs and have only ourselves to blame
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stone him.
you can't say Pep threw a semi final even though he did.
 
Nick_1985 said:
We actially threw fuck all. Stefan had 2 major brain farts and Jesus missed a fucking sitter to make it 3-3
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No you’re right playing a back 4 and a keeper that had never ever played together is approaching it head on. Liverpool missed a load of chances, especially first half. We threw it with our starting line up, as you mentioned the half wit keeper who lost us the semi the year before, done it again. A position where “resting” isn’t needed.
 
samuelyeboah said:
"threw the FA cup" fuck off lmao we had 100 minutes vs atletico madrid away with those cunts injuring half our team, they had a leisurely walk in the park vs benfica. they could play (and they did) their first team in the FA cup because of it, we couldn't because it was physically impossible. had absolutely fuck all to do with depth. if the situation was reversed we would have destroyed their 2nd team with our 1st team.
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definitely threw it, as he does every year.
it's no mither, his choice , but don't deny he does it.
 
Things are moving today.. Barca, Chelsea, ManU etc. I would surprised if the Ake thing wasn't moving.. or not at all, soon as well. Couple of days.
 
Pollocksheader said:
No you’re right playing a back 4 and a keeper that had never ever played together is approaching it head on. Liverpool missed a load of chances, especially first half. We threw it with our starting line up, as you mentioned the half wit keeper who lost us the semi the year before, done it again. A position where “resting” isn’t needed.
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Throwing would be making changes for no reason. He didn’t make changes for no reason. Possibly reasons you didn’t get, but thats neither here nor there.
 
Bill said:
definitely threw it, as he does every year.
it's no mither, his choice , but don't deny he does it.
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The games and injuries we had at that time suggested to me we managed our resources to focus on the league and champions league (although the latter evaded us) - that’s not “throwing it”
 
blueparrot said:
Throwing would be making changes for no reason. He didn’t make changes for no reason. Possibly reasons you didn’t get, but thats neither here nor there.
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Another poster said Steffen cost us. Changing our keeper to give minutes to a much inferior keeper who lost us the semi the year before, isn’t a change for a reason in my book. Considering we had to play a back 4 who had never played together, not once you’d say picking his first choice keeper wouldn’t have been a problem, had he been arsed. He isn’t that arsed about the fa cup. It gets in the way of the prem and cl I think for him at that time. It’s why our record is shite in it under him and the opposite for the league cup as it’s done and dusted by the end of feb. As Bill says it’s his stance on it and so be it, I’d rather us lose early on if that’s the case but let’s not pretend he doesn’t do it. There was no excuse against Chelsea for the amount of changes if people want to use Atletico as an excuse this time round. It’s just what he does. I love him but can acknowledge this also
 
BringBackSwales said:
Or you could say he managed his resources.
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Which goes back to my original point where all this started. We can’t get to an fa every year and “manage resources” by making 7 plus changes to a winning side then expect a positive result. We have the money to build a squad, it’s madness that we then claim every semi final we have to field a much weakened team consider our spend under pep has been more than anybody else.
 
BringBackSwales said:
It feels a bit like one out and one in at the moment? I would have thought we were well ahead of the game in FFP wages and amortisation? Or is it squad numbers?
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We are ahead on both.

Could be a coincidence (of 1), could be a collective hearsay impression (based on 1), or could be something more, depending on how vivid your imagination is.

We have a space free just now, 2 once Sterling leaves. 200m has come in with only circa 110m spent, and thats before you consider the club was supposedly prepared to pay over 100m for Kane which they never did.
 
Pollocksheader said:
Another poster said Steffen cost us. Changing our keeper to give minutes to a much inferior keeper who lost us the semi the year before, isn’t a change for a reason in my book. Considering we had to play a back 4 who had never played together, not once you’d say picking his first choice keeper wouldn’t have been a problem, had he been arsed. He isn’t that arsed about the fa cup. It gets in the way of the prem and cl I think for him at that time. It’s why our record is shite in it under him and the opposite for the league cup as it’s done and dusted by the end of feb. As Bill says it’s his stance on it and so be it, I’d rather us lose early on if that’s the case but let’s not pretend he doesn’t do it. There was no excuse against Chelsea for the amount of changes if people want to use Atletico as an excuse this time round. It’s just what he does. I love him but can acknowledge this also
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Of course he changed keeper for a reason, he didn’t do it to intentionally lose the game. It’s a reason you don’t agree with, fine thats your choice, Pep thought differently. Making changes you don’t happen to agree with isn’t losing a game on purpose though and thinking Pep is intentionally losing a game is a bit disrespectful.
 
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