Expectations for next season

Jimbo

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what are everyone's?

looking at the manager, the squad and the performance today, we are a hundred miles from cracking the top 4.

I know we had a few injuries, but the weakness of the squad is obvious. Elano gets injured and we had very lttle options to change things. I think we're gonna need about 6 top quality signings in the summer: two strikers, a centre half, two central midfielders and a creative midfielder.

With regards to Hughes, complaints about his tactics may be justified but its harder to change things from the start and mid-game when you've got nothing on the bench. His substitutions made an impact today at least. His use of formation may be to suit the players we've got. Give him the summer to 'complete his squad' and we'll see how he wants us to play.

I think the top 6 should be the aim, provided we keep Hughes. I cant see us being able to lure the world stars that we would need to get ahead of Arsenal. The top 4 can only be achieved next year if we got Mourinho and a host of world stars.
 
At the start of the season Hughes said his expectations for this season were a top 10 finish and a decent UEFA Cup run. This has been acheived.

Next season, we can't expect a top 4 finish, with any manager and any players. I hate Hughes as much as anyone (boring football, boring man etc) but let him do his stuff and see what happens.
 
With Hughes in charge

League - 16th

League Cup - 3rd round. We'll get knocked out by the championship giants Blackpool away on a Tuesday night

FA Cup - 5th round loss to Bolton
 
JamesTenOne said:
With Hughes 5th/6th.
With a new manager (and fresh start for the 3rd season in a row) probably lower.
I agree. It would be hard even for a big name manager because we'd have to start again and build a squad again - like Hughes had to do this year.
 
scall1 said:
At the start of the season Hughes said his expectations for this season were a top 10 finish and a decent UEFA Cup run. This has been acheived.

Do you have a link to that?
 

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