Missing out on Champions League.

[Tim of the Oak]

You're too early. Come back after the qualifier.

OK Jim we've qualified for the qualifier! The key is that it should help Pep and Txiki to sign the players that we need!

 

[tonea2003]

Qualifier doesn't matter. Will be nice to win but as of now we are a CL league club. Recruitment will be so much easier. Need to get deals done asap. If we drop in to Europa then at least we have the players to win it. Just as important we have blocked the rags income stream from the competition. Win win.

i like, i like a lot

 

[kismet]

Qualifier doesn't matter. Will be nice to win but as of now we are a CL league club. Recruitment will be so much easier. Need to get deals done asap. If we drop in to Europa then at least we have the players to win it. Just as important we have blocked the rags income stream from the competition. Win win.

Spot on Bill. For me stopping them , was equally as important as us getting the dough.

Next year is big for them. Miss out again and the Adidas reduction kicks in for two years out of Champs League. It will be tough for them, with us, Liverpool and Chelsea all likely to improve somewhat.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

i was just having a little ponder about us finishing fourth last season
and that perhaps it has, in some ways, aided the speed of our progress under guardiola.

maybe having to play two additional competitive games
(rather than just midweek training if we'd've come third)
means the players will have learned more tactically as a direct result of that.

 

[squirtyflower]

i was just having a little ponder about us finishing fourth last season
and that perhaps it has, in some ways, aided the speed of our progress under guardiola.

maybe having to play two additional competitive games
(rather than just midweek training if we'd've come third)
means the players will have learned more tactically as a direct result of that.

Said exactly this to my mates on Saturday, perhaps it was a blessing in disguise

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I've been thinking, something I don't particularly enjoy doing, a lot recently and I honestly don't think that missing out on the Champions League would be as bad as some of our local Nostrodamus' seem to think it would be.

1)Money
Perhaps the biggest reason we seek to compete is the money that comes with it. But let's face it, we have the richest owners in sport and I'm sure it'd be but a small hindernance. Besides its not like it will affect us till next summer, if anything it'll just push us to spend even bigger this summer to give us maximum time to rebuild and integrate before taking it on again.

2)Player Attraction.
It has been claimed that if we don't get CL football we will struggle to attract the biggest names in football. Our response to this should be 'Fuck them' if a player turns down a club for the sole reason that they aren't in the champions league at that moment then they aren't a player who we should be trying to sign. It's oft' thrown around that we as a team lack fight & heart in recent years. This will only be worse if we sign players that are only interested in superfluous competitions and not potential of the club they could be playing for. Any player that cannot see or prepare for his long term career is not one I would want to play for us.
Let it be known I am not saying we are the biggest or the best attraction in football but if a player cannot see the potential of playing for City in the coming years they are a fool.

3) The New Dawn
Now, this section may upset a few of you but hear me out.
The spine of our team is aging. Once, it was a spine that may not have been one full of the flashiest names but was one that people feared. Sadly, the unceasing March of time and constant injuries has taken its toll on us. The rigid backbone is now one more resembling a scoliosis patient and we all know it's time for a rebuild. Silva is aging and hadn't found his legs this season. Zaba has slowed, been injured and is showing worse judgement this year. Yaya, although still a towering brute, isn't fearful anymore, his legs are waning and he has been ineffectual for large parts of this season. If not this season then he will go very soon. Kompany is still one of the best CB in the world and akin to Churchill in his leadership ability. But it's a simple fact we cannot pin all of our hopes on someone who we have no assurances will be fit again next season.
Whatever way you look at it, and with Pep coming in we have one hell of a job rebuilding our team for the future. It's simply logical that time out of a very demanding competiton spanning thousands of miles worth of travel mere days before games might be very beneficial in the coming transitional period.


4) Spite
They never wanted us in it anyway so fuck them.


At any rate, we're not out of it yet so let's keep hoping we can turn it around and finish strongly, but worst case scenario it might not be as bad as we fear.

1. Money is imporant, oour owners want a viable money return for their business and the CL is half of the trophy revenue?

2. I would hate to think we would have told Sane or Gundogan or Jesus to feck off we dont want you

3. Spine of our team is aging, not too old though. Look at Zaba after last year and everyone saying he is finished. Silva has been instrumental this season and will be until he tires, not until he is a certain age, or the press say he is too tired. And I reallyt dont think "we have one hell of a job" with replacing our team.... That was said last year, the media telling everyone that we are too old and need to replace nearly the whole team.... 1 pep later and no, we dont.. The "old" players still have a place and in the case of some of them are instrumental.

4. seems to be the driver for your post?

You missed one thing though didnt you? Prestige. We need to get into the CL each and every year to maintain oour seat at the top table. Failure to do that costs money and prestige

 

[TheThirdDeano]

1. Money is imporant, oour owners want a viable money return for their business and the CL is half of the trophy revenue?

2. I would hate to think we would have told Sane or Gundogan or Jesus to feck off we dont want you

3. Spine of our team is aging, not too old though. Look at Zaba after last year and everyone saying he is finished. Silva has been instrumental this season and will be until he tires, not until he is a certain age, or the press say he is too tired. And I reallyt dont think "we have one hell of a job" with replacing our team.... That was said last year, the media telling everyone that we are too old and need to replace nearly the whole team.... 1 pep later and no, we dont.. The "old" players still have a place and in the case of some of them are instrumental.

4. seems to be the driver for your post?

You missed one thing though didnt you? Prestige. We need to get into the CL each and every year to maintain oour seat at the top table. Failure to do that costs money and prestige

okay

 

[Carlos- the- jackal]

i was just having a little ponder about us finishing fourth last season
and that perhaps it has, in some ways, aided the speed of our progress under guardiola.

maybe having to play two additional competitive games
(rather than just midweek training if we'd've come third)
means the players will have learned more tactically as a direct result of that.

Bang on that mate,definitely in retropspect it has helped us both match fitness wise and Pep getting his methods over.