tiggsywiggsywoo said:As far as Europe is concerned we have become a joke. Spent serious money and got absolutely nowhere. Somebody needs bollocking.
tolmie's hairdoo said:We fucked ourselves, pathetic to blame officiating.
A bit like the sun coming up each day, referees make shit decisions.
If only our talent matched our arrogance and naivety.
Time to face facts, this set of players don't have the urgency required to play at this level.
And just like the bollocks performance against Blackburn in the FA Cup, which ensured another game we could have done without, we're now looking at an extended campaign in the Europa League.
Pellegrini has shown far too much loyalty to certain players, who have repaid him and the club by mugging him off.
The elephant in the room remains the liability which is Toure.
He's offering nowt and much more of this and we will have to pay him off to join another club.
jaigurugoat said:city91 said:We need to stop trying to run before we can walk in Europe and go back to basics. We need to forget about playing our style of football because it quite evidently is not working. It is no coincidence that our best performance in the competition in the past 4 seasons was against Bayern with are second string side.
Lets just put out a side so we don't get beat, use our strengths in a different way.
Team for the rest of the campaign:
--------------------------------------------------------------- Hart -----------------------------------------------------------------
Zabba ---------------------------------- Vinny --------------------- Mangala/ Demichellis -------------------- Clichy
------------------------------------------------------- Fernando ------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------- Fernandinho ------------------------ Yaya -------------------------------------------------------
Navas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kolarov
------------------------------------------------------ Dzeko -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lets get men behind the ball and break with pace. Use Edin like he was at Wolfsberg and playing him in a counter attacking team. At least we will have the option of bringing on Silva and Aguero off the bench but it just seems that we cannot play to their strengths in this competition.
Yeah, worked really well against Barca at home.
mad zab said:tolmie's hairdoo said:We fucked ourselves, pathetic to blame officiating.
A bit like the sun coming up each day, referees make shit decisions.
If only our talent matched our arrogance and naivety.
Time to face facts, this set of players don't have the urgency required to play at this level.
And just like the bollocks performance against Blackburn in the FA Cup, which ensured another game we could have done without, we're now looking at an extended campaign in the Europa League.
Pellegrini has shown far too much loyalty to certain players, who have repaid him and the club by mugging him off.
The elephant in the room remains the liability which is Toure.
He's offering nowt and much more of this and we will have to pay him off to join another club.
I agree with you regarding Toure Tolmie
However, you are letting off Pellegrini......he continues to play 442 in a competition that we have done nothing in and then wonder why we keep failing
It isn't the Premier League with technically inferior players. Most teams have players who can play and if you give them an inch they will take advantage.
It may be harsh, but I believe we should be asking serious questions of the manager's ability to get it right in Europe.
The cookie monster said:tolmie's hairdoo said:We fucked ourselves, pathetic to blame officiating.
A bit like the sun coming up each day, referees make shit decisions.
If only our talent matched our arrogance and naivety.
Time to face facts, this set of players don't have the urgency required to play at this level.
And just like the bollocks performance against Blackburn in the FA Cup, which ensured another game we could have done without, we're now looking at an extended campaign in the Europa League.
Pellegrini has shown far too much loyalty to certain players, who have repaid him and the club by mugging him off.
The elephant in the room remains the liability which is Toure.
He's offering nowt and much more of this and we will have to pay him off to join another club.
Exactly
Really..!St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:mad zab said:tolmie's hairdoo said:We fucked ourselves, pathetic to blame officiating.
A bit like the sun coming up each day, referees make shit decisions.
If only our talent matched our arrogance and naivety.
Time to face facts, this set of players don't have the urgency required to play at this level.
And just like the bollocks performance against Blackburn in the FA Cup, which ensured another game we could have done without, we're now looking at an extended campaign in the Europa League.
Pellegrini has shown far too much loyalty to certain players, who have repaid him and the club by mugging him off.
The elephant in the room remains the liability which is Toure.
He's offering nowt and much more of this and we will have to pay him off to join another club.
I agree with you regarding Toure Tolmie
However, you are letting off Pellegrini......he continues to play 442 in a competition that we have done nothing in and then wonder why we keep failing
It isn't the Premier League with technically inferior players. Most teams have players who can play and if you give them an inch they will take advantage.
It may be harsh, but I believe we should be asking serious questions of the manager's ability to get it right in Europe.
get klopp in for me