Season Predictions

tramazi said:
Premier League - 2nd to liverpol
League cup - Knocked out first stage on purpose, piece of tin cup
Fa cup - Win
Champions League - semi final.
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Besides the spelling error, I stopped taking you seriously after this.

Think there will be about an 8 point gap between 3rd and 4th, with us, scum, and chavs in the top 3.
Domestic cups are a crapshoot to predict but think Pep will play youth in the LC and hopefully we make another run in the FA Cup.
At least quarters of the CL, again depends on the draw to guess how far after that.

Regardless I'm very excited we're finally only a few days away!
 
Prem - 1st after a slowish start
FA Cup - Finalist, beaten by Chelsea
League Cup - Semi finals with a very young side
Champs League - Winners, beating Barca on penalties

This is our year, all my confidence has been restored.
 
In principle we have the same squad as last year bar Demichelis and Wright, who are replaced by Denayer and Gunn, both seen as an improvement.
We've added Stones and Sane, Gündogan (coming in a bit later), and Nolito.
Zivchenko, Jesus and Moreno were brought in for next year. Iheanacho has gained another year.
We have the best manager as part of the best managementteam in the world, who is not afraid to play youngsters (as most on here blamed Pellegrini for not doing so) and is known for making every player better.
And we have had a better transferwindow so far than any of the teams that finished above us last term.

So don't you think we should finish first and win every piece of silverware there is to win? Or as young Braydon told Pep in the black cab, "where'd we put'm all ..."?
 
Just hope everyone up's their game this season and we get a lot more effort and application.
Too many players on easy street last
season. Top 4 a minimum.
 
Kazzydeyna said:
Not picking on you specifically, just highlighting your post as indicative of many on this (and other) threads.

If the above pans out as you expect I would expect to see literally hundreds of posters taking back their vitriol towards our last manager. A man who, remember, behaved with great dignity and class from day one, and who seemed genuinely honoured to manage such a great club as ours, and who answered the call immediately, not waiting for 4 years to fit us into his busy schedule of 'projects'.

- Why last year was top 4, CL semi final, and a cup win a disaster but next year, with last years squad plus over £100m in new toys, top 6 is acceptable?
- Why would failing to get through one of the easier qualification rounds to the CL be anything other than an unmitigated failure? If this were to happen it would be a gross misconduct and a sackable offence. No excuses.
- Who finishes above us in the league? Chelsea? Starting from a lot further back than we are: Utd? Ditto. And if they do are you saying that they have a better manager AND a better board than we do? Because to finish above is this season would mean exactly that. Arsenal? With Wenger and a board that doesn't like buying players. Spurs? May run us quite close but that's stretching it a bit. Leicester? Not again. Liverpool? Possibly I suppose. They do have the best manager from German football so it's possible.

Then we go to season two of three. When I fully expect Pep to be making eyes at his next project.

I can't stand this revisionism on here and the lowering of expectations.

We did not put the club on hold for 4 years, ripping the floor from underneath two world class managers in the process to write off the first of a 3 season master plan.

MP won a double in his first season, taking over a squad which many told us was bereft of morale, team spirit, and leaders.

Pep made the whole club wait for 4 years. We didn't do that to accept our lowest league position for 6 seasons.

I expect a title win or a very close run race at the absolute least.
Ironically I reckon Pep would agree with this more than he would agree that "just top 4" or "6th" would be acceptable.

Rant over.
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Very close to my thoughts.

Don't expect many Xmas cards from posters on here though !!
 
CrownPointBlue said:
Very close to my thoughts.

Don't expect many Xmas cards from posters on here though !!
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Thanks for that but, no offence my friend, "Crowne point" blue?? You think you're being subtle but you're not. Just come out and admit it. There's nothing to be ashamed of in supporting the original "sugar daddy" club.
 
Prem - Winners
FA Cup - Winners
League Cup - Winners
Champs League - Winners

Anything else and Pep is shit
 
Prem - Top 4
CL - Round of 16
FA Cup - Semis
League Cup - Who cares?
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This will be a transitional year as Pep molds the team to play his style. I don't expect to win anything this year. Three years hence though - look out!
 
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I think we'll do a double of sorts.

Probably FA Cup and League Cup.

I suspect it will take us too long to motor in the Premier League but no less than runner-up.

And another Champions League semi-final failure to someone like Barca or Bayern.
 
I think we should win the league
The rest aren't really that good are they ???
and we've never played a full season to our capabilities
And we've never had all the big guns fully fit for a whole season.
League cup and fa cup are as much as a trophy as the charity shield IMHO
 
depends on how we start, i'm not as confident as i was; as | dont think we have had long enough together in pre season
still think we are top 3 though
and a cup
 
One of the domestic cups. This I'm almost certain of.
First or second in the league. Not a hundred percent on which.
Champion's League Semi Finalists. Finalists or winners during Pep's reign.
 
Here is an interesting one, I am hoping that there is someone on here with a theoretical knowledge of statistics who can have a think about this. The Guardian (who I had a protracted run in with last year over The El Gasico business) are currently running a series 'Premier League 2016-17 preview'. At the top of the article for each club there is a predicted position at seasons end, it says that this prediction is based on the average of the view of all of their football writers. They predict, of course, the Rags will be first. They have at least 10 football writers so theoretically that system only works if all 10 thought the Rags would be 1st. Of course, maybe the final prediction was actually 1.5th and we were 1.8th or something so the whole thing was 'rounded up'. Perhaps most interesting thing though is that the series started before they re-signed Pogba. It reminds me of an expression often used in Viz, 'these so called experts............'
 
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