The battle for 4th place

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The idea that we've managed to convince Pep to come here and then in the first of his three seasons we aren't even in the bloody CL? It's simply unthinkable. If that cretin PellegrinI announces anything other than a 100% full strength team on Saturday, honestly I'd sack him on the spot, I really mean it.
 
Only reason top 4 is of importance for me is the appeal to top players signing in the summer. If we're a champions league club, with arguably the manager with the most pulling power in the game, have a clear vision/project to reach the top/win trophies & also pay players vast sums then we've got a lot going for us. Some players put a fair bit of weight on joining "champions league" clubs & missing out could affect our business in the window. Vice versa for United, if they sneak CL they may well be able to pull in some better players than first thought.

I honestly don't see us winning the CL next season anyway, more of a transitional process.
I see this as a big rebuild transfer window, with a significant number of ins & outs for the first team - we need to be as attractive a proposition as possible. Still in our hands so let's hope the players sort it out & get it secured over the next 4 games.
 
If we don't make the champions league next year then it just makes winning the title easier.

We should be winning it by 15-20 points next year at least.
 
Fucking thing should be tied off by now. This is what happens when you have a manager who plays delph as left winger. Ycniu.
Shite how we've got to this. We should be going for the kill on spurs and Leicester, not fending of 4 teams for the final 2 champs league spots.
 
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Playing the EL doesn't make the league easier, we have to play the shit EL fixtures on weekdays that hamper the league even more don't we
 
Puteulanus luna said:
Fucking thing should be tied off by now. This is what happens when you have a manager who plays delph as left winger. Ycniu.
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Utterly depressing this season has been. A whole slew of appalling performances and a repetitive inability to take points off teams in the top half of the table. It's bordered on relegation form, some of it, and if anyone thinks that's an exaggeration, go and look the stats up. I don't even want to go to the game this Saturday. It is very dispiriting and I am still angry.
 
Pam said:
Utterly depressing this season has been. A whole slew of appalling performances and a repetitive inability to take points off teams in the top half of the table. It's bordered on relegation form, some of it, and if anyone thinks that's an exaggeration, go and look the stats up. I don't even want to go to the game this Saturday. It is very dispiriting and I am still angry.
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Don't worry Pam, he wouldn't even dream of resting players for a tie that we have got shit show of winning. I'm sure he'll put out our strongest team this Saturday. And Bony will be first sub. Et boring cetera....
 
Kazzydeyna said:
If we don't make the champions league next year then it just makes winning the title easier.

We should be winning it by 15-20 points next year at least.
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No way is it going to be easier with Europa league group matches and an extra knock-out round.
 
Kazzydeyna said:
If we don't make the champions league next year then it just makes winning the title easier.

We should be winning it by 15-20 points next year at least.
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Except the players needed to do that might prefer Champions league football.
Not going to be as easy as you suggest and we'll have to pay silly money to get the required quality in.
It's tantamount to sabotage what he did on Tuesday.
 
Chippy_boy said:
The idea that we've managed to convince Pep to come here and then in the first of his three seasons we aren't even in the bloody CL? It's simply unthinkable. If that cretin PellegrinI announces anything other than a 100% full strength team on Saturday, honestly I'd sack him on the spot, I really mean it.
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How will you know whether he has or hasn't put the strongest team out?
 
He absolutely does not give a fuck about the league not what competitions we are playing in next season. All he cares about are the CL games.
If we had been know led out by Kiev I honestly think he would have been sacked already because he has been a fookin liability for 18 months.

Get him out of our club and if we get knocked out by RM then so be it but rather that than our objectives for next season be hampered by this ridiclious excuse of a manager.
 
This is a situation attributable to a horrendous, and possibly unprecedented, injury list allied to consistent levels of underperformance by players and manager.To win the last 4 games requires an improvement in performance which would be out of step with the way the rest of the season has panned out. I'm not expecting it.

As regards not qualifying for the CL, the hit we'd take on our finances would be a blow but not a terminal one as the rags, Spurs and Liverpool have all shown. As regards not being able to sign players who want to play in the CL, we'll that's fine by me. I'd prefer to sign the next generation of stars like Spurs have rather than players who think they are doing us a favour. We've been able to sign these CL hungry players for 4 or 5 years now and look where it's got us.
 
GaudinoMoutterly cpost: 9368711 said:
Except the players needed to do that might prefer Champions league football.
Not going to be as easy as you suggest and we'll have to pay silly money to get the required quality in.
It's tantamount to sabotage what he did on Tuesday.
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Agreed the guys utterly clueless at times.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
This is a situation attributable to a horrendous, and possibly unprecedented, injury list allied to consistent levels of underperformance by players and manager.To win the last 4 games requires an improvement in performance which would be out of step with the way the rest of the season has panned out. I'm not expecting it.

As regards not qualifying for the CL, the hit we'd take on our finances would be a blow but not a terminal one as the rags, Spurs and Liverpool have all shown. As regards not being able to sign players who want to play in the CL, we'll that's fine by me. I'd prefer to sign the next generation of stars like Spurs have rather than players who think they are doing us a favour. We've been able to sign these CL hungry players for 4 or 5 years now and look where it's got us.
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Excellent post.

There'salso some posters who will remind us that Aguero's goal was offside but discount the many decisions that went us earlier in the season.
 
There is simply no excuse for this. Yes we've had horrendous injuries (is it the training) but to rotate and weaken ourselves further is criminal.

I once called him a clown much to people's discust, he's worse than a clown he's the worst manager since Alan fucking Ball.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
Except the players needed to do that might prefer Champions league football.
Not going to be as easy as you suggest and we'll have to pay silly money to get the required quality in.
It's tantamount to sabotage what he did on Tuesday.
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Agreed. I have used the word sabotage a few times regarding this manager. Can be no other logical reason for his decisions.
 
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