The Title Race - 2023/24

[willipp]

Run in jitters do funny things to teams, we’ve seen it many times under pep and even in 2012 and 14 when we won it. Plenty of twists and turns to go.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Home games look like formalities. Hopefully raga, Everton and West ham can do something.

Everton? You have to be joking.

 

[Mad_fer_it]

We could win it on goal difference with them losing once. One loss in 9 games isnt a stretch. It's whether we can win all of ours. We are closer than last season and lots still to play for. I just question whether we can go up the level we need to.

We might have to settle for just the Champions League. Tough times.

Forgetting the FA cup mate! Probably got a better chance of winning that. It's essentially beat 2 mid table teams!

 

[Haaland94]

I said before the season that the dippers will be our main rivals and they are.

We are perceived as the best team in England no matter what. That's why it's probably more important to cement our place globally and win the CL. It's all in our hands there, and as long as we win it, we are the best team in the world in the minds of most.

Nobody will care whether we win the PL or not.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Those shit draws arse end of last year have hurt us.

Really bad and iirc all from winning positions

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

We've just dropped points in consecutive games. If we can do it, other cunts can too.

Plus, the goal difference is not insurmountable. They lose a game by 2, we win a game by 3 the same round, and the GD is made up.

They’ll score 5 or 6 mid midweek

 

[Coatigan]

They’ll score 5 or 6 mid midweek

Oh well, good for them.

 

[KennyG]

The last two years, the recruitment has been shocking, with the exception of Gvardiol.

Then there is the team set up Players played out of position,notably Gvardiol and Alvarez. Foden could’ve been better utilised in many games. Bobb not used enough. Haaland seemingly un droppable.

Either it has gone stale or the players are not good enough. Football is slow and predictable.

Lucky to be only three points of the top.

Last season was as much down to Arsenal falling off a cliff as us.

The Madrid home leg was perfection, but we’ve seen little since.

It’s not over, but we don’t deserve to win it. Can’t beat any decent team in this league.

 

[Mad_fer_it]

There's a reason why only 2 teams have ever won the treble. There's also a reason why no team as ever successfully defended the treble.

Something has to give.

Fighting on all those fronts must be fucking exhausting. Then you add to the mix: losing KDB for half the season, losing Gundo (and not replacing him properly) and Rodri getting suspended for 3 key games (one of which was Arsenal away). It's incredibly hard. Then our rivals: Liverpool got stronger, Arsenal strengthened. It's a lot to ask to STILL win the league with all that. To be within 3 points is pretty good.

Who knows Liverpool and Arsenal might choke. City might relax a bit more and feel like there's less expectation on them now, who knows. Still within a shout of winning 2 cups. Let's see what happens.

Treble documentary is out tomorrow in Netflix, so let's all watch that and remind ourselves how incredible that was.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Think we probably need to win every game now, but we are more than capable of that. Whilst yesterday was hugely disappointing a loss would have been pretty catastrophic, so I’m glad we avoided that.

With a quarter of the season left, plenty can still happen. Anyone who completely writes us off at this stage lacks perspective, given we are three points behind with nine games to go, but I readily accept that if we fail to beat Villa or Palace that view starts to hold much more water.

If we can make up the goal difference and keep winning then the pressure on the other two will doubtless intensify and the true mark of champions is winning in those circumstance, which we have done again and again. Time will tell if Liverpool or Arsenal can emulate that.

 

[BringBackSwales]

The last two years, the recruitment has been shocking, with the exception of Gvardiol.

Then there is the team set up Players played out of position,notably Gvardiol and Alvarez. Foden could’ve been better utilised in many games. Bobb not used enough. Haaland seemingly un droppable.

Either it has gone stale or the players are not good enough. Football is slow and predictable.

Lucky to be only three points of the top.

Last season was as much down to Arsenal falling off a cliff as us.

The Madrid home leg was perfection, but we’ve seen little since.

It’s not over, but we don’t deserve to win it. Can’t beat any decent team in this league.

As fine a post of complete entitled over reacting toys out of the pram bullshit as I have ever read in here

 

[Paul1970]

We can’t win it every year and to cone off a treble win and still be in 3 cups is a feat in itself. We cannot keep going every year with the sane squad as the hunger will not be there and that is why we evolve and players like Mahrez gundo Laporte move on and we hopefully bring in the next crop of hungry players. Upfront is a massive problem we only have Haaland and alveraz and it they are not playing well which is happening then we don’t score goals . I’m ok with not winning it this year and I look forward to our title challenge next season and for the record I’ve said Liverpool will win this since November and still win think they will but this will be their final year and that team will break up .

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

The last two years, the recruitment has been shocking, with the exception of Gvardiol.

Then there is the team set up Players played out of position,notably Gvardiol and Alvarez. Foden could’ve been better utilised in many games. Bobb not used enough. Haaland seemingly un droppable.

Either it has gone stale or the players are not good enough. Football is slow and predictable.

Lucky to be only three points of the top.

Last season was as much down to Arsenal falling off a cliff as us.

The Madrid home leg was perfection, but we’ve seen little since.

It’s not over, but we don’t deserve to win it. Can’t beat any decent team in this league.

Just had a quick look at your posting history. You've spent the whole of our club's most successful period, and one of the most successful decades in any club's history, crying online about how Pep and the boys weren't good enough. Weird.

 

[blueparrot]

Just had a quick look at your posting history. You've spent the whole of our club's most successful period, and one of the most successful decades in any club's history, crying online about how Pep and the boys weren't good enough. Weird.

There are a few like that,they seem incapable of getting any pleasure from our ,or any other teams, most successful period in our history. I find in very weird.No idea what they'll do when things return to normal.

 

[Thaksins Love Child]

Everton? You have to be joking.

Grasping purely because its a derby haha

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

There are a few like that,they seem incapable of getting any pleasure from our ,or any other teams, most successful period in our history. I find in very weird.No idea what they'll do when things return to normal.

Some people aren’t happy unless they’re miserable.

 

[Coatigan]

There's a reason why only 2 teams have ever won the treble. There's also a reason why no team as ever successfully defended the treble.

Something has to give.

I disagree. Up until the last year, I would have wholeheartedly agreed. But this year I have found myself thinking, there has just never been a team good enough. Same with 4 leagues in a row.

I think this team is actually good enough. To do either, or both. We have just had a little bit of bad luck, and if just a few moments had gone our way, it would be a whole other story.

The Spurs draw, the two Liverpool draws. The Palace draw. 4 moments, 8 points worse off. Add the chelsea penalty not given for 10. Not to mention liverpool themselves then being worse off.

I honestly think, if the last two fixtures were reversed either side of the break, we would have pumped Arsenal, and still managed a draw with Liverpool imo. Said the same the last break, when we played Chelsea before it and Liverpool after. We would have beaten both. The momentum interruptions haven't fallen well for us.

That's football and these things happen. You need a bit of luck, even when the quality is there. Nothing has 'given'. We just had moments cost us, without enough moments to balance it out which would usually happen.

Treble documentary is out tomorrow in Netflix, so let's all watch that and remind ourselves how incredible that was.

Amen!

 

[Coatigan]

Some people aren’t happy unless they’re miserable.

And misery Looooves company.

 

[timperleyblueboy]

I've never at any point this season fancied us to win the league. That's not because of how we've been playing but the laws of average. The chances of us winning 4 on the trot are remote. You then add in the fact we lost big players like Gundo and Marhez, plus laporte. I think to be 3 points behind with 9 games left is an amazing achievement. If we go on and win it, it will be unbelievable! If not hopefully we win champions league and fa cup and go again next season.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

We’re 3 points behind with NINE games left… relax. Plenty of twists are yet to come.