Khaldoon's End of Season Review 2025

It seemed a fair analysis to me: it was a poor season against the demands we have set for ourselves, but given the challenges we faced, we have achieved a decent outcome and we know what we need to do now having learnt lessons from not being aggressive enough last summer. To me, that is an objective and balanced assessment.
 
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Has he mentioned ticket prices, the disconnect between the board and the fans, and the fan protests?(shut the f*ck up jrb, you boring c*nt!)
That's in part 4.

(There are only 3 parts)
 
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It seemed a fair analysis to me: it was a poor season against the demands we have set for ourselves, but given the challenges we faced, we have achieved a decent outcome and we know what we need to do now having learnt lessons from not being aggressive enough last summer. To me, that is an objective and balanced assessment.

Spot on, mate. He’s neither there to polish turds nor to run us down after a disappointing season. His job in this context is to convey positivity, stability, confidence and continuity, all with a dash of humility. This he did in consummate style, in my opinion.

Compare and contrast with the circus at Old Trafford.
 
Yes it was a disappointing season against what we hoped and expected. Unfortunately businesses and sports teams often take success for granted and fail to plan accordingly. Rugby League , Union , Cricket and Football are littered with examples. Hopefully we have learnt our lesson for the next cycle. It will be interesting to see how Liverpool perform next season as both VdV and MS are at the tipping age in their careers and having also lost TAA they might well struggle
 
Interesting that he says we should have been more aggressive in the transfer market last summer. I wonder if that means we'd have gone for Marmoush a year early or if it's a regret of one that went elsewhere. Fought harder to keep Alvarez? Dani Olmo?

Reassuring though to hear his words. Just have to wait for the media to twist it all now to make out we're plotting the downfall of western civilization.
 
Interesting that he says we should have been more aggressive in the transfer market last summer. I wonder if that means we'd have gone for Marmoush a year early or if it's a regret of one that went elsewhere. Fought harder to keep Alvarez? Dani Olmo?

Reassuring though to hear his words. Just have to wait for the media to twist it all now to make out we're plotting the downfall of western civilization.
It echoes Pep's words.
 
Spot on, mate. He’s neither there to polish turds nor to run us down after a disappointing season. His job in this context is to convey positivity, stability, confidence and continuity, all with a dash of humility. This he did in consummate style, in my opinion.

Compare and contrast with the circus at Old Trafford.
Some on here can't/won't see that.
 
Was thinking about our FA Cup record (since the takeover) while he was speaking.

Won against Stoke
Lost against Wigan
Won against Watford
Won against United
Lost against United
Lost against Palace

I think we can reasonably say that our record is, at best, mixed, considering that none of those clubs are exactly producing intimidating, top-of-the-table teams. Three of them aren't even in the PL any more. It's a bit puzzling. It's glass half empty. I suppose him saying we've reached the semi-finals seven times in a row is, looked at in a certain way, pretty amazing. Looked at another way, it means we should certainly have many more FA Cup trophies than we do, because we've kept on being defeated at either semi-final or final stage!
What I didn't hear was Khaldoon claiming, or even insinuating, that this season has been satisfactory. What I did hear him say, very clearly, in response to Chris was “All that's history”. And he's so right. We can look back and celebrate as fans, if we want. The club shouldn't. The team shouldn't. Once they start doing that, they're dead.
 
I was there mate, thankfully my small time mentality didn't remain their like many in here.
Nah we’ve just not become self entitled like many on here. Having seen everything and been through everything with this wonderful football club since 1982, every final reached won or lost is still a fantastic achievement no matter where the club is at currently. That’s not small time that’s realism that you can’t win everything and are not entitled to win everything but getting there takes huge effort especially with the amount of fixtures and injuries (this season), and is an achievement in doing so and doing it continuously for a number of years now. With everything that’s happened this season as well I’d say finishing 3rd is a fantastic achievement too.
 
Was thinking about our FA Cup record (since the takeover) while he was speaking.

Won against Stoke
Lost against Wigan
Won against Watford
Won against United
Lost against United
Lost against Palace

I think we can reasonably say that our record is, at best, mixed, considering that none of those clubs are exactly producing intimidating, top-of-the-table teams. Three of them aren't even in the PL any more. It's a bit puzzling. It's glass half empty. I suppose him saying we've reached the semi-finals seven times in a row is, looked at in a certain way, pretty amazing. Looked at another way, it means we should certainly have many more FA Cup trophies than we do, because we've kept on being defeated at either semi-final or final stage!
What I didn't hear was Khaldoon claiming, or even insinuating, that this season has been satisfactory. What I did hear him say, very clearly, in response to Chris was “All that's history”. And he's so right. We can look back and celebrate as fans, if we want. The club shouldn't. The team shouldn't. Once they start doing that, they're dead.

The win against United and the loss to Palace probably contain the two worst decisions in recent FA Cup Final history.
 
That's in part 4.

(There are only 3 parts)
I’ve not seen part one yet.

Watch all the of the videos and tell me the spoiler about what he thinks of the ticket price issue and the fan protests, and then I’ll watch it.
 
Nah we’ve just not become self entitled like many on here. Having seen everything and been through everything with this wonderful football club since 1982, every final reached won or lost is still a fantastic achievement no matter where the club is at currently. That’s not small time that’s realism that you can’t win everything and are not entitled to win everything but getting there takes huge effort especially with the amount of fixtures and injuries (this season), and is an achievement in doing so and doing it continuously for a number of years now. With everything that’s happened this season as well I’d say finishing 3rd is a fantastic achievement too.
We're Manchester City, we're Manchester City, I mean we're Manchester City, we're talking about Manchester City. It's Manchester City we're talking about.
 

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