The Title Race - 2023/24

[bluemystery]

Could do with 2 or 3 at least, squad been shown up fir how light we are. Conte.ders this season for me are City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Newcastle

Think the CL will do Newcastle a lot of damage.

 

[bluemystery]

Liverpool, Spurs, City. One of those three.
Spurs are a massive dark horse given no european football

Don't see Arsenal in it at all.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I'm not saying it won't happen, but people predicting a tight, multi-team title race that also includes flavour of the month team that has had a good start before the clocks go back is what this thread has looked like for the last six years.

 

[JWCH-99]

Could do with 2 or 3 at least, squad been shown up fir how light we are. Conte.ders this season for me are City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Newcastle

Peps made it quite clear he’s happy with his squad size so I wouldn’t hold your breath

 

[bluemoon32]

Peps made it quite clear he’s happy with his squad size so I wouldn’t hold your breath

True, which is why it's never a good look when he moans about injuries

 

[citymad]

True, which is why it's never a good look when he moans about injuries

He can when there's 4-5 exceptional players missing. Luckily the fixtures have been kind to us and the players have stepped up so far. We should be happy considering all the obstacles we've faced.

 

[John Wayne]

Peps made it quite clear he’s happy with his squad size so I wouldn’t hold your breath

I think that the squad size is also fine. It's difficult to legislate for so many midfield injuries at one time. The biggest problem, as I see it, is Kalvin Phillips. Everyone knows that when Rodri isn't there we now have a problem. Last season, Gundogan could cover Rodri when the latter was given a rare breather. What Saturday showed is that Pep doesn't rate the man brought in to cover for Rodri. We ended up with Nunes and Kovacic struggling to get to grips with not having a proper DM behind them. If you could swap Phillips round for Paqueta then we'd have the squad we need. Paqueta could play more advanced most of the time but also slot in well for Rodri on occasion.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

It depends on how quickly many of our injured players get back to full match fitness. Kev might make it by Christmas if all goes well, so if we can be there or thereabouts and get the new signings established, I think we can get 90 plus points, which will probably be enough this time. We slipped up at Wolves but still top, and in a better position than this time last season.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Liverpool ticked off some very difficult fixtures already

Of the games they've played, which do you think we would have dropped 2 points in (or more) given that's how far behind they are of us currently?

Chelsea are shit, so I'd argue only the Spurs away game was their only real tough game in comparison to ours, and they got beat.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Of the games they've played, which do you think we would have dropped 2 points in (or more) given that's how far behind they are of us currently?

Chelsea are shit, so I'd argue only the Spurs away game was their only real tough game in comparison to ours, and they got beat.

Mate, you're doing it wrong.

Every team we play is shit and we should have beat them.

Every team everyone else plays are world beaters who have got some tricky fixtures out of the way.

Repeat until April when even relegation teams we are about to play are in many ways considered trickier than rivals playing mid-tables side.