06 Nov 2024 05:19:34
So what are we winning this season? Champions league, or premier league?
06 Nov 2024 06:19:51
PL should be the priority and anything else is a bonus.
Not to get carried away as last year we were doing really well before the wheels came off in the home stretch.
YNWA.
06 Nov 2024 06:47:02
I’ll have both.
06 Nov 2024 06:59:03
I say we are pretty good for both. Once Real Madrid boogie team is out of the way. After Madri, Citeh game, it will be much clearer.
06 Nov 2024 07:06:21
TAA to win the Ballon d'Or, for me ?.
06 Nov 2024 08:30:34
Love the enthusiasm however ManCity are only two points behind so I’ll keep ‘as calm as Slot’ for now.
06 Nov 2024 08:48:15
Too early to tell.
06 Nov 2024 09:26:40
Rigsby ?.
06 Nov 2024 09:31:44
We will have games where we have to "suffer", these games will tell if we have substance to be champion.
We are now on radar of all teams in Europe now. They are not sleeping, but reviewing every match we play, frame by frame to spot weakness.
06 Nov 2024 09:54:31
We've been on the radar of all teams in Europe for many decades and if you think that teams haven't been analysing our games up until now you are extremely naive.
06 Nov 2024 10:06:16
I'd be ecstatic with either or.
If I'm greedy then both but if it was a straight shoot out between the 2 then it would be the Premier League.
I still believe the players and fans are owed that PL open top tour bus around the City.
06 Nov 2024 10:18:48
I really fancy us to win a preseason tournament next summer. Those preseason tournaments are the best ones for me.
06 Nov 2024 10:34:51
Spot on, JK.
06 Nov 2024 11:18:42
Imagine thinking that in CL games the opposition just rock up to Anfield without studying our previous games and that it will only start happening now.
Gotta be a windup, nobody is that dim. Right?
06 Nov 2024 11:34:59
@shipley, that's not true. We were playing Europa League only last season. Nobody cares about teams playing in Europa League, only champions league counts.
06 Nov 2024 12:42:06
Sweeping statement their, Leek, and a tad elitist.
06 Nov 2024 13:03:43
* there.
06 Nov 2024 13:43:27
Tbh Atalanta’s path to the europa league trophy and the football they played to get there was way more thrilling than Madrid, so it simply isn’t true that nobody cares about the europa league, even Olympiakos’ conference league win was an amazing story too, stuff like this is why we watch football in the first place.
{Ed002's Note - Ignore him - he is just trolling the site.}
06 Nov 2024 13:51:04
@Leek You are talking absolute tripe. Leverkusen were in the Europa League last season and everybody was talking about them (rightfully so) - their entire current reputation is based on what they did last season. I'd go as far as to say that for a lot of neutrals there was more interest in the EL final than there was in the CL final
Also, a big clubs reputation doesn't disappear in a season. We are one of the biggest clubs in the world and we have been for decades. A season in the Europa League would never change that. Look at Man U - they have been awful for years (sometimes not even qualifying for European competition) but like it or not they are still a massive club with a massive reputation.
06 Nov 2024 14:23:03
As always, give both PL and CL the best shot possible.
Feels like PL is there for the taking at the moment given our position, Gooners wobbling and Rodri being out. Whereas this new CL format is an unknown quantity.
The domestic cups, don't care about them this season.
Learn from 21/ 22 and 22/ 23 seasons and bin them off at the earliest opportunity so we are in good shape for the major honours.
06 Nov 2024 15:16:33
@ shipley, rome, you have digress. The point is we will need to dig deep when our tactics are found out, countered by another manager.
I am sure while i am typing, there clubs out there dissecting Slot's tactics, set up. Which is why 1st half is alway hard going because they know how we set out, slot advantage is he can counter real fast but not before half time break.
Against brighton we could have been 3 nil down. The game could be quite different. Does this team have iron to come back from 3nil down like their predecessor against Barcelona?
We will see.
Against Leverkusen, Frimpong had gilt edge chances at least 2, the game would have turn out differently.
06 Nov 2024 16:30:32
@Leek nobody was disputing the first part of your point. Of course there will be hard times and this is usually when you find out the most about a manager and a group of players. It was the second half of your post that was utter nonsense.
As for your examples in that last post - Brighton had 1 big chance in the entire game and an xG of 0.76 so had we been 3-0 down there would have been something really wrong! Last night Frimpong had 2 shots which had a combined xG of 0.062 so again, I'm struggling to see the 'gilt edged' chances. He did have a goal disallowed when he played it past Tsimikas with his hand but obviously this would never have counted. You need to stop fretting about hypotheticals and just enjoy the ride!
06 Nov 2024 18:06:48
I’m assuming you work in the fishing industry @Lee?
06 Nov 2024 18:08:11
Are teams not supposed to try and beat us, or at least make it hard for us during the match?
Isn't that the whole point of competition?
What a strange outlook on the game.
06 Nov 2024 18:40:29
Leek, my response to you was based on your total disregard of the Europa League, which Shipley has already addressed.
07 Nov 2024 07:18:58
Gotta say, i'd obviously love both but I agree JK23, the league should be the priority and rightly so.
It's close, City only 2 points behind and none of us have a clue what way this new Champions League format is going to go, but fair play to Slot and the team, they've made a great start and need to just keep it going - Real and City games coming up, two real big tests for this team.