Half-term report

I will leave the media to decide on this question!! After a few games we were going to win it by a mile as we had so much money, the best squad ever in existence, so much money, the best manager the planet had ever seen and so so much money.Then after a few blips and a defence seemingly collapsing and a manager totally "found out" we were likely to finish out of the top 4 and having to sack the manager.

Even now we hear on one hand we haven't got one defender good enough for a top 4 prem side and on the other that we still have the best squad in the league. It surely cannot be both!

We are doing ok. After the early run of wins we were never that good as some of the wins were close run things against crap sides, but we won. Then we had some weak results ( home draws) where we should have won, Chelsea included, scraped away wins before Leicester woke up the media so they could really get the knives out.

The under 18's are great though!
 
7.5/10

Brilliant start, a serious wobble in terms of results and performances followed, and the recently signs that the team are adapting to his methods in the last few games.
Qualified from a difficult group in champs league. Piss poor in the league cup. Still in touch in the league but a bit further behind than wanted.

When it clicks it clicks. Challenge for the second half is to make it click for whole games at a time.
 
All fine margins If we'd won Chelsea as we deserved to we'd be giving 8.5/9 out of 10. Not winning that wasn't really our fault well maybe with some poor finishing.
 
I'd think I'd go so far as giving it an 8 or maybe even a 9.

We scraped 4th last season remember, with a manager who knew the ropes inside out having been here 3 seasons. We started this season with the same glaring weaknesses in terms of defenders.

And yet, we are 1 point off 2nd, and we've come through a really difficult sticky patch. And critically, when we've been good, MY GOD we've been incredible. I cannot remember an English team in the past 20 years taking on Barca like we did and beating them like we did. Some of the football we've been playing has been absolutely phenomenal.

If Pep can achieve this in his first 4 months, I can only imagine what we will be like after a couple of years and a few more transfer windows.
 
Chippy_boy said:
I'd think I'd go so far as giving it an 8 or maybe even a 9.

We scraped 4th last season remember, with a manager who knew the ropes inside out having been here 3 seasons. We started this season with the same glaring weaknesses in terms of defenders.

And yet, we are 1 point off 2nd, and we've come through a really difficult sticky patch. And critically, when we've been good, MY GOD we've been incredible. I cannot remember an English team in the past 20 years taking on Barca like we did and beating them like we did. Some of the football we've been playing has been absolutely phenomenal.

If Pep can achieve this in his first 4 months, I can only imagine what we will be like after a couple of years and a few more transfer windows.
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im with you mate. when its clicked we've been phenomenal. we know we have areas to improve and when they are hopefully corrected, we will have some bloody side! a bloody good young side i hasten to add. the future looks incredible from the roots right up to the first team, on and off the field. we are lucky ladies and gentlemen, very lucky to be alive and witnessing the growth of the modern MCFC.
 
everything could be viewed a lot rosier or with a lot more doom-mongery depending on the next 2 results, which will actually be the half way point of the domestic season.
 
Good thread!

8/10. Not in terms of results, but process. Yes, we're a ways behind Chelsea, but some important stuff has been happening. Perhaps the most impact and most neglected has been Pep's learning process. He said from the outset that he was here to learn, but fans' focus has been on whether the squad can learn his approach.

There's no doubt in my mind that he is able to crack any problem presented to him. But until he came here, he's not known first hand what the challenges are facing a team playing his way in the PL. He's now had half a season of the PL. Now he knows what the problems are, and I trust 100% in his ability to find solutions and communicate them to his players.

I reckon we'll be there or there abouts this season, and back to back titles in the next two years.
 
Its kind of gone as I expected other than the timing of our blip. Thought we would find it difficult for the first 10 games or so then improve steadily. Love Pep still and think he will get us to previously unimagined heights of excellence but it will take time. Think he has improved almost all of our squad which is the mark of a great coach and we look more like a team than we have in the past few seasons. In terms of player performances, Dinho has been bloody amazing as has Merlin, Kev has done some amazing stuff and Sane is improving every game. Kun worries me a bit, his on field discipline hints that all is not well with him. Maybe he is not used to a coach that actually tells him how he wants him to play. So I would say 7 out of 10. Chelsea have been better than I expected however, if they lose Hazard or Costa they will struggle. Liverpool have looked good at times but are inconsistent, ditto Spuds. Refereeing continues to be very depressing.
 
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