Will we win the league this season?

Liverpool still imo will do serious business, bit worried they add Isak on top of Kerkez, Frimpong, Wirtz, that would be seriously sick window. I wish we had done similar when we were ahead but we decided to go different approach which backfired badly.

Arsenal filling a huge gap with Gyokeres if they close that transfer. Zubimendi also great addition and will allow Rice to play further forward which he can do and add more assists/goals. Madueke also not bad addition, albeit more of a squad role from bench. much more in him potentially than Trossard...

hoping Rodrygo aint ending up at PL rival either.

Chelsea transfer policy is brutal, but given there are zero psr issues and they keep getting decent fees on sales side, they are not years away from clicking. Caicedo, Palmer, Enzo are all fantastic young players that havent even hit their prime yet. quite strange how much faith they put into former City EDS players, more than us ffs. Maresca delivered the minimum requirement in his first season (getting to CL), now added Conference league and the CWC on top which just brought them brutal extra cash which they happily spend on strengthening more, they could look at defence and GK maybe.

if we dont improve our tactics seriously and players dont improve their form seriously all above three teams can finish higher than us which would be detrimental, we shouldnt accept that if that happens. one bad season ok, but back to back with serious summer spending we need to see improvement and simply higher points tally.

Pep needs to be 100% focused on our rebuild and getting back to the top rather than trying to give it a go in what may be his last two seasons at City.
 
No.
Sadly I think Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea finish above us this coming season.
Can't see us winning anything so 4th will be our only prize.
End of a glorious era , hope it's not too many seasons till the start of our next era of dominance.
 
Nope but be very happy with top 4 again. Not complaining just don’t see much changing with the new signings.
 
Blue Elvis said:
No.
Sadly I think Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea finish above us this coming season.
Can't see us winning anything so 4th will be our only prize.
End of a glorious era , hope it's not too many seasons till the start of our next era of dominance.
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It’s unlikely to happen again. Other teams have caught up, and the playing field has evened out. Things might have been different if we’d strengthened after winning our 3rd title. We’ll still win the odd silverware, hopefully the Champions League again but we won’t dominate the PL like we did with those brilliant teams under Pep.
 
yep, that type of dominance we just had is probably over. winning 4 in a row or 5 in 6 years is just brutal and for whatever reason Pep, Txiki etc got comfortable and others used that short period well to catch up big time. dippers not even last summer as they didnt do much business but when Klopp was still there and they invested a lot into Szoboszlai, McAllister, Grevenberch that paid off for them as all turned out to be good transfers.
and now they added top quality again.

are we winning 4 titles in next 6 years? very unlikely. will it be more equally shared like 2 dippers, 2 City, 1 Arsenal, 1 Chelsea? could be something like that. are dippers going on a sick run and maybe win 4 of next 6? very hard to do but with proper transfers each summer and if Slot doesnt get found out tactically it could happen.

things can change quickly in football tho, defending a title is harder usually than to win it, last season dippers only had a very bad City and a much weaker Arsenal than what we had to fight against in 23/24 as main rivals.
with a close title race with more quality from the Arse, Chelsea, City dippers could feel different pressure and maybe other sides in the league wont treat now City as the main scalp and treat dippers with bit more careful approach rather than let them attack them so much while they dont even park the bus.

I just dont see a way we get out of our decline unless we start working our ass off again, press hard again, track back lot more, and we really worked since the treble towards not doing these thing and slow our whole approach to reduce risk this way rather than sort out the problem at the root as it was a better fit for our ageing squad and players but it resulted in many many lesser sides able to come up with solutions against us that worked repeatedly. its one thing how we lost to PSG, or vs Liverpool 2x in the league and how Arsenal ripped us apart 5-1 at Emirates.
its the ones vs Spurs, Feyenoord, Sporting, Bournemouth, Brighton and how easily this weaker version of Real Madrid went past us in CL only to be sent home by Arsenal. and the Palace FA final really once again proved whats wrong with us tactically and with the corrupt refs too.

Pep also had an off season, some of his line ups made zero sense, often needing to fix it with subs which often took too late, there wasnt any set line up, odd changes from one game to next, people played until nosebleed than out of the line up for weeks, injured player put back straight into it despite zero form, telling KDB he is not good enough for a renewal but played him 90 mins every 3 days still etc.
it was a mess which was made worse by lots of injury issues especially first half of the season.
the inclusion of january signings were also odd.
reports about internal issues like Lillo and staff not communicating with players , explaining tactics much all year, all a bit off really. personal issues with Pep (divorce, those crazy scratch marks on his head), so overall whatever could have gone wrong it did...
 
I don’t think we will win the league but you can’t criticise how we have handled the changes.

All this Liverpool did it better, Arsenal have this or that player, Chelsea now.

None of those teams have won a treble nor 4 in a row nor a centurion season.

If we can be critical of our own club then why are the other inferior clubs not held to the same level? When city were winning what were the rest doing? Fuck all thats what.

So I don’t care who anyone signs, pep needs to get the system to function better for us to succeed.
 
Yes we will win the league next season if we have this line up
......................Good GK
Livramento...... Dias... Givadiol...... alt nouri
.................Rodri
... Cherki.................Reijnnerds
Rodrigo.................................Marmoush
....................Haaland
Managing the squad (buying and selling the players) is a different aspect though.
 
Damanino said:
yep, that type of dominance we just had is probably over. winning 4 in a row or 5 in 6 years is just brutal and for whatever reason Pep, Txiki etc got comfortable and others used that short period well to catch up big time. dippers not even last summer as they didnt do much business but when Klopp was still there and they invested a lot into Szoboszlai, McAllister, Grevenberch that paid off for them as all turned out to be good transfers.
and now they added top quality again.

are we winning 4 titles in next 6 years? very unlikely. will it be more equally shared like 2 dippers, 2 City, 1 Arsenal, 1 Chelsea? could be something like that. are dippers going on a sick run and maybe win 4 of next 6? very hard to do but with proper transfers each summer and if Slot doesnt get found out tactically it could happen.

things can change quickly in football tho, defending a title is harder usually than to win it, last season dippers only had a very bad City and a much weaker Arsenal than what we had to fight against in 23/24 as main rivals.
with a close title race with more quality from the Arse, Chelsea, City dippers could feel different pressure and maybe other sides in the league wont treat now City as the main scalp and treat dippers with bit more careful approach rather than let them attack them so much while they dont even park the bus.

I just dont see a way we get out of our decline unless we start working our ass off again, press hard again, track back lot more, and we really worked since the treble towards not doing these thing and slow our whole approach to reduce risk this way rather than sort out the problem at the root as it was a better fit for our ageing squad and players but it resulted in many many lesser sides able to come up with solutions against us that worked repeatedly. its one thing how we lost to PSG, or vs Liverpool 2x in the league and how Arsenal ripped us apart 5-1 at Emirates.
its the ones vs Spurs, Feyenoord, Sporting, Bournemouth, Brighton and how easily this weaker version of Real Madrid went past us in CL only to be sent home by Arsenal. and the Palace FA final really once again proved whats wrong with us tactically and with the corrupt refs too.

Pep also had an off season, some of his line ups made zero sense, often needing to fix it with subs which often took too late, there wasnt any set line up, odd changes from one game to next, people played until nosebleed than out of the line up for weeks, injured player put back straight into it despite zero form, telling KDB he is not good enough for a renewal but played him 90 mins every 3 days still etc.
it was a mess which was made worse by lots of injury issues especially first half of the season.
the inclusion of january signings were also odd.
reports about internal issues like Lillo and staff not communicating with players , explaining tactics much all year, all a bit off really. personal issues with Pep (divorce, those crazy scratch marks on his head), so overall whatever could have gone wrong it did...
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Slot I think is a pellegrini type (succcess) manager. Pellegrini gave the attacking flare to the team build by Mancini. Slot did the same (changed something tactically) with the squad build by klopp.
He will be found out next season. Only think that worries me is they are investing in the squad as well. That might make a difference specially if they buy Isak and they also have that motivation factor after the death of Jota.
 
Liverpool won't get Isak this season.

The Saudis won't sell him to Liverpool. Newcastle don't need the money, they are in the CL.

Isak might go to Liverpool when Salah goes, as long as Liverpool can convince Newcastle to sell him, and Liverpool pay Newcastle's astronomical transfer fee for him. But when have Liverpool ever done that for a player ;-)

I was really impressed with Chelsea against PSG last night. Pace, power, pressing, quality individual players all over the pitch. Chelsea will definitely be in the title race.

If we get a decent right back, Rodri stays fit, we don't suffer another long list of injuries, and Pep stops playing the ridiculous high line, we will definitely be in the title race.
 
jrb said:
Liverpool won't get Isak this season.

The Saudis won't sell him to Liverpool. Newcastle don't need the money, they are in the CL.

Isak might go to Liverpool when Salah goes, as long as Liverpool can convince Newcastle to sell him, and Liverpool pay Newcastle's astronomical transfer fee for him. But when have Liverpool ever done that for a player ;-)

I was really impressed with Chelsea against PSG last night. Pace, power, pressing, quality individual players all over the pitch. Chelsea will definitely be in the title race.

If we get a decent right back, Rodri stays fit, we don't suffer another long list of injuries, and Pep stops playing the ridiculous high line, we will definitely be in the title race.
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Too early to tell about Chelsea. They lost from Flamengo 3 weeks ago and needed ET to beat Benfica. Young and talented team, but over 38 games a lot more is needed, including experienced players...

Note that Pep finished above Chelsea with many injuries to important players and some oldish players. Yet our fans can't stop suggesting tactical solutions to him (e.g., the infamous high line).

Note also that PSG won nearly everything playing the high line. There are trade-offs, and some of our fans are fixated only on the downsides.
 
Blue Elvis said:
No.
Sadly I think Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea finish above us this coming season.
Can't see us winning anything so 4th will be our only prize.
End of a glorious era , hope it's not too many seasons till the start of our next era of dominance.
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Unfortunately I have to agree with you as our defence is frankly awful.
 
Gray said:
And recently play dog shit when in sight of them.
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We finished 3rd in 16/17, won nothing, and then had the best ever league season in English football.

The point is that you can't predict the future based only on the recent past. The recency bias gets people jumping to conclusions.
 
alexmcity said:
We finished 3rd in 16/17, won nothing, and then had the best ever league season in English football.

The point is that you can't predict the future based only on the recent past. The recency bias gets people jumping to conclusions.
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What concerns me is we have a keeper who is great with his feet but not a good shot stopper and a defence who lack pace and concentration.
 
Gray said:
What concerns me is we have a keeper who is great with his feet but not a good shot stopper and a defence who lack pace and concentration.
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We won everything with Ederson and pace is a bit overrated (in England).

Walker was mostly on the bench when we were winning the Treble, including vs Bayern who had very quick forwards and were great on the counter.

The ability to read the game and positioning are more important. Nobody today remembers Maldini and Baresi for their pace, both were slower than Nunes...
 
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