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Honestly, there's nobody on Pep's level. We know this, and we must be resigned to it. But I do know one thing — whoever comes in, they must be backed to the hilt, as fully as Pep has been. I felt that the summer transfer window in 2012 was a complete non-event, a washout, and we paid the price...

That can actually work in our favour, given how we play. Teams playing at home tend to be a little bit ashamed of playing the entire match with eight players in their box and three just beyond it. At the Etihad now, whether you're Barnsley or Real Madrid, that's what you do, and hope for the...

Already on the beach sipping my daiquiri…

it's pretty much what I said above. I genuinely do believe that we could have paid the highest price for going through. The lads were reeling around like zombies on Saturday. It was the Night of the Living Dead. Can't remember when I've seen the team like that. All over the pitch, too. Funnily...

I will be somewhat more confident if we win the next 6.

Maths has never been my strong point.

Of course it's easy to be wise after the event, but the more I think about it, I'm convinced that if we'd got through and had two matches against Bayern, + a CL final, it would have been a bridge too far, and we would have fallen at all hurdles. Yes, we did it last season. But the...

Whatever's said on here — and of course it's a forum, people are here to speculate and that is their right — I am absolutely, 100% certain that the lads will simply be thinking in terms of winning every single game, with no calculations as to what the other two might do. A propos of nothing...

Liverpool have never really bottled it against us, in my honest opinion. Just possibly arguable in 2014 against Chelsea. They've fought us pretty much to the end. Arsenal last season, yes. I don't think either will, we'll win it by a point or so.

Why should they give it to us? We must go and take it.

This was not the kind of game they were going to drop points in. They've got two decidedly tricky fixtures — Everton, who are still fighting for survival, and Villa, who are fighting for Europe with Tottenham on their heels. If they're going to drop points (and even a draw is potentially...

In strictly semantic terms, you're right. Double is two of something, and only two. There was a brief period, though, between Wembley and Istanbul, when we had done the double. We then cancelled it out.

I think that's right. If he doesn't deliver, then he's out. But you've got to ask yourself, how many managers have Chelsea had in the last ten years? It's the kind of thing we did at one point. And it was no good for us, and it probably won't be for them.

Any maths nerd on here who's able to calculate what the odds were against us meeting the rags two FA Cup finals in succession, when it hadn't ever happened before in the existence of the FA?

We're not disagreeing. You could see there was a player in there virtually right from the start. But recently he's been playing more intelligently — in short, like a Pep player.

He wasn't honestly very savvy when he arrived. Explosive pace, but not much of a footballing brain. There are signs that he's learning in that department (as how could you not, with the best tutor in the world?) although still has a bit of a tendency to pick out the wrong player, or not pick out...

You know the rule.

Neither does Pep.

If only that were the case on this thread. That would be just the ticket.

And you are Roy Keane and I claim…