My ultimate is. City< Spurs, Arsenal & Chelsea top 4. Liverpool 5th. United 6th and win the EL. Absolute scenes.
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My ultimate is. City< Spurs, Arsenal & Chelsea top 4. Liverpool 5th. United 6th and win the EL. Absolute scenes.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Arsenal have a couple of tough fixtures next up, but if they do well in them they have Sunderland penultimate game of the season at home and that could mean they have to beat Everton to push Liverpool out of the top four. Now that would be scenes.
This made me laugh today.... Norwegian.... hahahaha....
Definitely a game we'd need to give some of the younger lads some gamete in that one!
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Fred the Doorman at LB; Vera the tea lady GK.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Looking at the remaining fixtures of Liverpool, City, United and Arsenal it looks to me like they could even just get 3 points off Boro final game at home and still scrape through to the last four.
Any other season they're bottling of these games would have been punished. Incredible.
Any other season they're bottling of these games would have been punished. Incredible.
In their own way 5 of the top 7 have bottled this season. I can see points being dropped at West Ham next weak who have turned a corner and look very solid with 3 at the back.
They may well scrape into 4th. It's hard not to see City getting over the line comfortably with 3rd. I don't think 4th is as good a result as they'd like to think. Looking at the teams they have to face, I'm not sure you'd fancy them over two legs against most of them. I also think any big signings will wait until they have that qualification. Best case scenario they go big in August. I suspect top targets like VVD will have moved on by then.
I don't think FSG will fancy them to get CL if they end up 4th so will hold back. Worst case scenario is they end up 5th, Arsenal pip them (very possible as Arsenal are experts at this) and United win the CL. They are left with all 5 other teams being able to attract top players and then picking up scraps. This alongside a long campaign in the Europa league and the lack of legs we have now seen post January probably from November onwards next year. Legs completely gone and injuries piled up like they are now by early March. Klopp's sheen wearing off.
There are problems emerging. Maybe FSG surprise us all and give Klopp mega funds irrespective of where he finishes, and Klopp changes his methods so his sides aren't fraught with injuries and a lac of legs by January. I don't see either happening and I see a crisis emerging that could be significantly deeper than the one Rodgers left behind.
Champions league may pro-long this spell in purgatory. However Europa League for them, make no mistake will look like Rodgers final season.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Just singing the blues when Everton and Ajax win and Liverpool and Feyenoord lose.
Steve0
Player Valuation: £35m
I've seen them about a dozen times this season and they have been beyond dire in every single game.
One upside of this top 4 push is that they seem to have prioritised securing the signatures of their 'stars' like lallana and Loren on ludicrous amounts of money.
They're still tens of millions of pounds in debt and have a new stand to pay for, can see coutinho leaving this summer. Plus a few more. They could be I serious trouble in a few years. Bit of extra cash cos of probable cha,pions
League but does anyone really expect them to get out of the group stage?
One upside of this top 4 push is that they seem to have prioritised securing the signatures of their 'stars' like lallana and Loren on ludicrous amounts of money.
They're still tens of millions of pounds in debt and have a new stand to pay for, can see coutinho leaving this summer. Plus a few more. They could be I serious trouble in a few years. Bit of extra cash cos of probable cha,pions
League but does anyone really expect them to get out of the group stage?
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
As long as they don't win the CL next season, European football will screw them, they don't have the squad for 4 competitions. Their fans will demand Klopp prioritises the CL but he will know that might lead to another trophy less season without top 4 qualification.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
not a cat in hell's chance mate, i really would stop worrying about them in this way, they've meandered for about two months now, the premier league is getting to an all time low in terms of quality and yet they still can't beat some truly woeful teams, leicester did brilliantly to get where they got to, but none of the other teams from the prem even got a sniff, this liverpool team is miles worse than any of this year's participants, there's no winning mentality at all there now, they've turned into annual bottlers, they've bottled it this season in terms of not just the league, but champions league, if they do qualify it's mainly because of how atrocious united and arsenal have been (and city actually) and us in a season of transition.
Our team under martinez may have actually finished this season 3rd, it really has been that poor in quality, that's why i'm not getting too happy on what koeman has done this season, i'm only really happy about the foundations we've laid and the startings of the "project". I think liverpool will be down in 7th/8th next season, unless they do some really good transfer work.
Any other season they would have been punished? If they did get 3 more points, they'd be on 73pts. 8 of the last 10 seasons, that would be enough for top 4. So, not quite sure about them being punished any other season. Unfortunately, the season isn't just about the last 5,6 or 7 games, its about 38 games and, if they get 73 points and finish top 4, you have to say they deserve it.
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