It'll likely be Top 5 this season for Champions League, no?i cant see us finishing top 4 now, 3 of those places almost certainly taken up with one place left for around 6 teams, were not in that six, no where near so its not happening, the other two competitons may be best avoided if were going for a rebuild, who do you blame because there has to be blame at some point, Pep, the charges?, the writting was on the wall around the treble win period certainly with players like KDB but it goes back well before when we didnt replace players of the same quality when the likes of Kompany retired, there may well not have been a ready replacement but we should have been intergrating these players not 4 or 5 in one go but one at a time going back over the last 8 years and now its bitten us on the backside, with or without Pep there is nothing to salvage this season except stay above the bottom 3, we go into transition then at the end of season clear out the elderly and deadwood and go again, we'l be back but it wont happen overnight its going to take a couple of years, at least i might stand a chance of a season ticket in the new stand
This is live but he sounds like he thinks he should go at the start….33 minutes in
midfield is the key your right ,this one is finished, kdb, gundo. legs gone,bernardo not far behind,no rodri nunes shite,kova average to decentEvery match I hope that things will improve. However we seem to have literally fallen over the cliff edge. Unless we find a way forward very soon this could turn out to be a long and painful season.
Our midfield is the key issue.Get that right and we will improve up front and in defence.
Whilst I appreciate Rodri being absent is not the only problem he does provide the glue that holds the team together.
Here's hoping that Villa have a really poor game next week and that we can salvage some confidence for the weeks to come.
Really didn’t get taking KDB off, he was our main playmaker.I actually thought we played well until KDB went off. Him and Foden looked like it was clicking in parts and Gundogan had a decent 30 minutes.
Nunes played decent until that nonsense and his head went. Nowhere for the second.
The result will be massively damaging to the players tonight.
Truth is we’ve gone to the well of Pep’s genius too often and gotten overconfident. Akanji, Rico, Gvardiol at left back, Nunes, Kovacic and more are nowhere near starters for us.
We’ve let top players upset over lack of game time leave easily and as a result we’ve a bunch of average cogs who look nothing without other players doing the hard stuff for them.
We are paying the price for so much success.it feels poxy tonight but I’d rather this than losing titles over the last few years by a point or two.
In an alternate reality we didn’t do 4 in a row but Alvarez, Palmer, mahrez and Laporte etc are still here so we don’t face this crisis.
I’m glad Khaldoon saw that. Time to reload.
It's a post-match thread not a review of the past four seasons.4 in a row
have some respect
You're not wrong and he was fucking horrible.Really didn’t get taking KDB off, he was our main playmaker.
Yes it is.Thing is he did ok until that fucking moment
Our players have completely lost their bottle and that's on Pep
At least Nunes is taking a bit of heat off Walker.Clearly Nunes head was gone 2nd half.
But we were awful as a team that 2nd half, and that is massively on Pep.
We simply relinquished control to them, did nothinf with the ball and lost it all the time making nothing.
Nah I didn’t get that impression at all and I don’t think for a second he’ll walk.