Rate this season

average for our recent standards, but not that bad considering

have seen worse
 
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Dubai Blue said:
Pretty shit overall. No point sugar coating it. We all think the rags have had a shocker but we're basically running par with them.
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Rags win the Europa and it's a far better season for them. Hopefully that won't happen or it'll be more ammunition for gutter press to use.
 
It's been poor. Maybe our expectations were too high but given Peps record that's unsurprising .

You can talk about getting his own players in but are we reLky suggesting Pep had no say in the signings the season before last .....Sterling, Otamendi, De Bruyne et al? There is no way the club would have signed those players if Pep didn't rate them knowing he was in the managerial wings

And yes the standard of refereeing has been questionable, however you're letting Pep off the hook by suggesting this is a factor in a disappointing season

Roll on August ......again!
 
I think you should take it as a learning curve for Pep. Today you were desperately unlucky. You are in a far better place than your obnoxious neighbours.
 
Asking these kind of questions straight after a disappointing loss is always going to elicit negative responses.
For me it's been a bit mixed. it certainly hasn't been a disastrous season unlike say Chelseas' last season or the rags under Moyes equally it certainly hasn't been a great season.
I think it does take longer than a lot of people realise in general to develop a new way of playing which is clearly what Pep has been brought in to do, not a patch up job but getting a playing ethos for the club.
I think we have played some great football at times and some of the time it has been successful think of most of our home Champions League matches, we also have undoubtedly had a tougher than average time with refereeing decisions in crucial matches. However we have also never really managed to dominate a top 6 or good champions league team over 90 minutes and our defense has looked pretty consistently shaky.
Personally I can see plenty of causes for optimism for next season but it could also deliver disappointment if we don't learn to defend significantly better and grind out results when we don't play well as happens to all teams at times.

The season isn't over with about 15% of league matches to play . For me I will give us 5.5 out of 10 at the moment limp to fourth and it would drop to 5 fall out of the top four and it would drop to 4 finish strongly in 3rd and I would go to 6.
 
zolayes said:
I think you should take it as a learning curve for Pep. Today you were desperately unlucky. You are in a far better place than your obnoxious neighbours.
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Cheers pal,good post.
An outsiders opinion,and bit of clarity,is whats needed around here tonight.
 
If we finish in the top four, then distinctly average. If we don't, then very poor.

I do think we will be the better for it though in terms of a lot of the players that will stay for the long run will be a year along in understanding the fundamentals of the system(s) we will
be using. I do think the loss of Gundogan has been seriously underestimated. That and the lack of full backs.
 
Dubai Blue said:
Pretty shit overall. No point sugar coating it. We all think the rags have had a shocker but we're basically running par with them.
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Rags season is infinitely better than ours if we finish 3rd/4th and they finish 4th/5th with two trophies.
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Really ? The Rags have won the league cup and could still win the europa cup. Arsenal could win the Fa cup.
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Yeah likely ours will be worse than the rags but if they don't get top 4 or win Europa and we qualify for the CL its fairly even. If Arsenal win the cup their season is better; it depends on results but ours has unfortunately been quite a let down.
 
In a word, poor!
Just got back after another expensive trip to that there London. It's not the defeat that hurts, it's the lack of effort.
Not good enough all over the park today & we got what we deserved for sitting back after scoring first.
Ah well, Mickey mouse cup anyway
 
Exactly the same as last season. Started well 5 wins on the bounce then faltered badly out the title race lost semi finals champions league fa cup then struggle to make top 4. Could be worse we might not even make top 4. Pep the messiah??
 
Wrighty Wrexham said:
Exactly the same as last season. Started well 5 wins on the bounce then faltered badly out the title race lost semi finals champions league fa cup then struggle to make top 4. Could be worse we might not even make top 4. Pep the messiah??
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With all his ghoulish charm and personality, Manuel at least got a silverware.
 
TFC said:
I honestly think 2 decent full backs and some of the injured players fit again, and we are as good as anyone in the prem. We still need huge improvement to get anywhere close in Europe tho.
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Hope the players we sign have got the winning mentality though because too many of ours haven't when it matters. In all comps against better sides we have won 4 times in 15 matches. That isn't good enough by some way. In fact it's dreadful.
 
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