Too many factors to predict it. If we stay reasonably healthy and get a few breaks we'll be right in the mix with a chance to win it. LP and Arsenal will be very good again and then Newcastle and a surprise team or two will challenge.With the current squad!!
I say no!
Yeah, that's why we have prediction threads every seasonGood question..
If Pep retains the large squad from the world cup, then we are going hard in everything, the run of league cups wins was down to a good squad, I remember us saying our 2nd 11 would get top 4 place it was that good.
City fans never predict what's going to happen ? But what we do is ride the waves well
Arsenal finished 3 points above a City side missing Stones and Rodri and with KDB, Walker and Gundogan at the ends of their career.Too many factors to predict it. If we stay reasonably healthy and get a few breaks we'll be right in the mix with a chance to win it. LP and Arsenal will be very good again and then Newcastle and a surprise team or two will challenge.
LP? What the fuck? Got a fair few of those in the loft! ;Too many factors to predict it. If we stay reasonably healthy and get a few breaks we'll be right in the mix with a chance to win it. LP and Arsenal will be very good again and then Newcastle and a surprise team or two will challenge.
Yeah, that's why we have prediction threads every season
Away at Anfield? What you on?Yes - and what's more, we will be undefeated
At spes Infracta ;)Away at Anfield? What you on?
Salah and VVD another year older, I think in the must win games last season Salah looked off it. Wonderful player thoughLiverpool's won a league with 84 points in a season when everything went in their favour whilst Arsenal were on 74 points. I don't see that they are 'formidable' or 'absolutely primed'. Neither do I see how Pep's and Bernardo's short term contracts effect City's potential for 2025-26.
I think we can expect City to improve significantly as Rodri recovers and Ait-Nouri settles in. I think Reijnders is a good signing but Cherki might be a gamble.
It's the "Hope" that kills you...At spes Infracta ;)
Salah and Van Dijk will be less effective next season. How much so is difficult to say.Salah and VVD another year older, I think in the must win games last season Salah looked off it. Wonderful player though
Agree with this.I don't think so. I'm concerned by a lot of small details that's going on with City. This feels a lot like we're looking at short term focuses rather than long term gains as we always have done. Liverpool have a formidable squad. Arsenal + an Isak are going to be very strong. I think even our best squad under Pep wouldn't run away with this league and we'd be in a fight.
Pep's new staff signing 1+1 contracts to match Pep isn't a good message. Our captain running down his deal isn't a good message. Us not buying from the absolute top table isn't a good message. Us having small bits of complacency such as allowing Foden to get into the 18 month contract window isn't a good message.
I feel it's a year or two too early for us and that the executive team may well have taken their eye off the ball a bit. The other two teams are absolutely primed and ready to go and we're still fuzzy around the edges with a bloated squad and questionable quality in key areas.
I don't think so. I'm concerned by a lot of small details that's going on with City. This feels a lot like we're looking at short term focuses rather than long term gains as we always have done. Liverpool have a formidable squad. Arsenal + an Isak are going to be very strong. I think even our best squad under Pep wouldn't run away with this league and we'd be in a fight.
Pep's new staff signing 1+1 contracts to match Pep isn't a good message. Our captain running down his deal isn't a good message. Us not buying from the absolute top table isn't a good message. Us having small bits of complacency such as allowing Foden to get into the 18 month contract window isn't a good message.
I feel it's a year or two too early for us and that the executive team may well have taken their eye off the ball a bit. The other two teams are absolutely primed and ready to go and we're still fuzzy around the edges with a bloated squad and questionable quality in key areas.
When you say new style it won’t be that new, just a return to what we were doing a couple of seasons ago. It seems after one difficult season half of the fans have now decided we played like we did last season for years and it’s our style . We didn’t and it isn’t.only if Pep&Lijnders can implement a different style of play succesfully to press more, run more build attacks uicker, everyone working harder off the ball.
it was awful to see how our slow style was found out many times last season by great teams and quite a few not so great teams.
teams running through our midfield with ease, scoring a high xG chance from their first attempt, us struggling to create big chances and have games in a row where our striker not even having a proper chance to shoot and us being generally outfought in most second balls, tackles etc.
all f this need to change and thank God Pep realized Lillo and co has to go and fresh energy needed asap in the staff and in the squad too.
I want to see some of this new style already showing signs vs Juventus and in the 1/16 game of CWC. result doesnt matter much but the style has to improve a lot.