The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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Nellies left peg said:
At the moment Rodders looks irreplaceable and as for Phillips filling in there’s no chance of that, Pep doesn’t trust him. Need someone to fill the void when he needs a rest
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Part of Kovacic's role. Foden Kovacic Bernardo midfield to give Rodri a break
 
Tecumseh said:
I thought we showed a lot of resilience last night to hold onto the win despite being down to 10 men. And we didn’t give up in the Community Shield. Arguably, we handled the penalty pressure better than you. Given however, how widespread this stereotypical meme is on here, it’s certainly how you City fans seem to view us. I’d love a pound for every time the word ‘giddy’ has been used on here. But if it makes you lot happy in believing it, carry on, no skin off my nose.
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Mate, to give you some context, you are sounding kinda like your fellow Gunner fans who came on here in droves from about 1/3 of the way through the season getting rather giddier and giddier by the week (yes that word). Particularly memorable was when we beat you in the FA Cup with you resting a couple of starters and there was a week of "we don't care", "Arteta doesnt want to show his hand", "this means nothing", "wait till you see our top guys".

Well you've seen our top guys and we ate you alive at the Etihad and send you packing back down the M6. You might improve this year, but a Community Shield on penalties proves nothing I'm afraid
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
There are more options than we realise:

Stones and Kovačić
Stones and Bernardo
Stones and Lewis
Stones and Akanji
Stones and Gvardiol
Stones and Phillips
Kovačić and Bernardo
Kovačić and Lewis
Kovačić and Akanji
Kovačić and Gvardiol
Kovačić and Phillips
Lewis and Bernardo
Lewis and Akanji
Lewis and Phillips
Lewis and Gvardiol
Akanji and Bernardo
Akanji and Gvardiol
Akanji and Phillips
Phillips and Bernardo
Phillips and Gvardiol
Bernardo and Gvardiol
… or any of them on their own.

Over the course of the season in the EFL Cup and FA Cup early rounds, the opening game in the World Club Cup, some of the weaker teams at home in the PL and CL, many of these combinations should be good enough to give Rodri a rest.
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Doesn't sound as bad when you put it like that.

Assuming we don't sign a midfielder, when Rodri is out I think it'll mostly be Kovacic playing deeper with Foden and Bernardo moving inside which we can do now that we're signing Doku.

Ideally we could do with one more but if not then we should be able to get by doing that until KDB comes back.
 
If we are within 7 points of the leaders going into the second half of the season then I really fancy us to win it

if we are the ones that are seven points clear then it’s lights out , we’ve won four in a row

will be interesting to see how Arsenal manage their champions league run and the cups


last season they ducked out of the cups early and could rest players in the Europa

i think on paper they are our nearest challengers again which makes me happy as they are very brittle

not a patch on the scouse challenges from early years
 
I think we’ll have to massively drop off not to win it this season.

I have no idea who the biggest challengers will be. Arsenal had no Europe or cup competitions last season and still collapsed. Liverpool still look quite a bit off what they were a couple seasons back. I don’t think United / Spurs / Chelsea are even in the conversation?

I genuinely think it could be Newcastle.
 
CityFan94 said:
I think we’ll have to massively drop off not to win it this season.

I have no idea who the biggest challengers will be. Arsenal had no Europe or cup competitions last season and still collapsed. Liverpool still look quite a bit off what they were a couple seasons back. I don’t think United / Spurs / Chelsea are even in the conversation?

I genuinely think it could be Newcastle.
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I sort of agree Newcastle look a good bet although they to will have European nights aplenty and the added baggage of fans expectation + pressure to succeed + inexperience at getting it over the finishing line...
 
After we won the treble, i originally thought that we would struggle getting up for this season, but i've changed my mind.

With Gvardiol added to the defence, we are going to be really hard to beat. Added to our offensive fire power, i just don't see us losing very many, let alone going on a losing run that the opposition would need us to do for them to win.

If we suffer any more major injuries though, that may change things, but with the additions we are making to the squad, i hope we will be able to whether any eventuality.

Also with us going for 4 in a row, i think Pep will use that as major motivation for the squad.

I think liverpool will be our nearest challengers with arsenal and newcastle rounding out the top 4.

I'm predicting we will win the title and repeat as CL winners.
 
Premier League is the one I want to see is win if I could pick one competition.

Being Champions of Europe has a better ring to it than Champions of England, but you have to play 38 matches and have stamina to win it, as Arsenal learnt the hard way last season.

Also, it will be four titles in a row for the first time ever.
 
CityFan94 said:
I think we’ll have to massively drop off not to win it this season.

I have no idea who the biggest challengers will be. Arsenal had no Europe or cup competitions last season and still collapsed. Liverpool still look quite a bit off what they were a couple seasons back. I don’t think United / Spurs / Chelsea are even in the conversation?

I genuinely think it could be Newcastle.
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So Saliba going down for the season due to an injury in a match v Sporting Lisbon was a movie I watched. Not real life
 
ShorehamCitizen said:
Premier League is the one I want to see is win if I could pick one competition.

Being Champions of Europe has a better ring to it than Champions of England, but you have to play 38 matches and have stamina to win it, as Arsenal learnt the hard way last season.

Also, it will be four titles in a row for the first time ever.
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If I had to chose 1 it would be CL.
I want us to have a bigger worldwide fan base than the dippers and rags and CL is the way to go about that.
A lot of young un's here are now following City.
 
Tecumseh said:
I thought we showed a lot of resilience last night to hold onto the win despite being down to 10 men. And we didn’t give up in the Community Shield. Arguably, we handled the penalty pressure better than you. Given however, how widespread this stereotypical meme is on here, it’s certainly how you City fans seem to view us. I’d love a pound for every time the word ‘giddy’ has been used on here. But if it makes you lot happy in believing it, carry on, no skin off my nose.
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Well you have the temerity to come on here bigging up Arse and criticising City fans for their choice of words :)

Community Shield means nothing to Pep. It's a glorified friendly. You could see Pep wanted the Super Cup much much more. Penalties can go either way, they're a lottery, even the best footballers on the planet miss penalties, so again means nothing....Giddy is a perfect description of you Gooners, it sums you up. LoL !
You have a great team.....better than the rags and dippers but nowhere near ours, or our manager.....And you know it :)
 
Bill Walker said:
Well you have the temerity to come on here bigging up Arse and criticising City fans for their choice of words :)

Community Shield means nothing to Pep. It's a glorified friendly. You could see Pep wanted the Super Cup much much more. Penalties can go either way, they're a lottery, even the best footballers on the planet miss penalties, so again means nothing....Giddy is a perfect description of you Gooners, it sums you up. LoL !
You have a great team.....better than the rags and dippers but nowhere near ours, or our manager.....And you know it :)
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I haven’t been bigging up Arsenal. Maybe City will prevail again but who knows? Time will tell.
 
I feel confident this year on the basis I just thing we’ll be ultra solid at the back (our stats since Pep changes his system to 4 CBs is actually ridiculous) and we score far too many goals not to pick up tons of points if we are barely conceding. I’d be surprised if we didn’t pass the 90pt mark should injuries not ravage the squad.
 
chris85mcfc said:
Where does all this respect for Newcastle come from?

They're a good side, but I'd sooner play them every week than either Arsenal or Liverpool, who are both far better sides.

Liverpool were poor last season, but could be very dangerous this year if they can sort out their midfield.

Still think it'll be City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and then the rest.
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Brighton 5th?
 
Blue Coop said:
I feel confident this year on the basis I just thing we’ll be ultra solid at the back (our stats since Pep changes his system to 4 CBs is actually ridiculous) and we score far too many goals not to pick up tons of points if we are barely conceding. I’d be surprised if we didn’t pass the 90pt mark should injuries not ravage the squad.
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This is the key point imo.

We haven't conceded more than one goal since Pep stumbled on this new system in January. That run has involved Arsenal, Bayern, and Real home and away, two cup finals, and nearly every team in the league at least once. We have also strengthened our defence, and from the small sample of games we have so far this doesn't look like it will be an obvious drop off from their point of view.

Unless something happens to Haaland and Alvarez - injuries or dry spells - you'd back us to score at least one in games a decent chunk of the time, even without Kev.

The season obviously lives and dies on our ability to keep that level of consistency up, but if I were the rest of the league I'd be looking at that and getting worried.
 
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