Missing out on Champions League.

mosssideblue said:
Am I reading this correct, are you suggesting our priorities should be to just qualify for the CL year on year and not be too worried how far we progress in it each time?
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Where have I said that? If you read what I wrote carefully you will see I meant both the league and CL are as important. Pellegrini has said finishing 4th so we have to qualify for next season IF we get at least a draw against Swansea and a CL semi appearance and a CoC trophy represents a good season.

Our league form has been terrible and a semi final cup appearance will not mask that and our fans showed how they felt about that last Sunday.

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Pellegrini has just come out and said the Premier League is the most important competition followed by the Champions League. http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10281139/pellegrini-rues-title-failure
 
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worsleyweb said:
Huge weekend!:

Disaster if we cock this up.
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Ramifications are huge, we have to be in Europes top tier competition to take the club forward to where the owner wants it to be. It will damage which ever club ends up on the wrong side of a result tomorrow.

I hope for one last roll of the dice pellegrini has the troops switched on, remember when we went to Anfield in 2003 and Anelka torpedoed the dippers champions league hopes. We can't have complacency like that.
 
Bill said:
we simply were too nice. our board aren't thick, they could see that that MP was not up to the job, I could so they must have done. problem was he went and fluked the bloody title, so a bit like lvg across the road if he wins the cup he's technically unsackable. doesn't excuse what's gone on since mind, he's made error after error and for a club with ambitions as high as ours its bordering on negligence to have kept him in place. no great mither to the fans, we've proved we'll watch city at any level, but for "the project" its a commercial disaster.
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After last season, it became a high risk strategy of keeping Manuel in place as the route of least resistance for the board whilst we waited for Pep. We could see from last season that Pellegrini should probably have gone, tomorrow's result will have a big bearing on whether this was a risk worth taking. Our regression is plainly there for all to see, I just hope the damage done isn't that deep it takes Pep an extended period to rectify it.

Tomorrow should be our get out of jail free card, but with this Manchester City team you just never know what will happen whereby 3 years ago I usually had the feeling we stood a better than evens chance of victory. This is what we've been reduced to and our league position and points total doesn't lie.
 
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Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
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Not sure if serious. If Liverpool win the Europa, fourth will still qualify. It's an an additional place.
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
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Wrong!
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
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LOL. Double clarkie with reverse pike. Very good.
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
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Have you not read the 500 posts on this issue ?

If Liverpool win the Europa League , there will be 5 English teams in the CL .............or will there ????
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
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I've heard Big Fat Sam has been mooted. Mansour is impressed with his ability to keep teams up. I believe the transfer ban will leave us in a bad position
 
dronefromsector7G said:
I've heard Big Fat Sam has been mooted. Mansour is impressed with his ability to keep teams up. I believe the transfer ban will leave us in a bad position
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Good choice, and I don't think we should be chasing Pogba he's never produced in the premier league.
Kevin Nolan is our man
 
HalfwayUpTheKippax said:
Even if we win at Swansea, if Liverpool win the Europa League they will get the last Champions league spot and we will miss out. Has anyone considered that possibility? If that happens, Pep will surely exercise the get out clause he placed in the contract as there is no way he will come here if we are not in the UCL. He would probably then take over from the turtle at the swamp. Who would we go for then... Martinez, Moyes, McLaren? Why do we always fuck up?
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Wrong!, If we get 4th and Liverpool win europa Liverpool will go straight into Europa league.
 
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