Top four is the absolute minimum. A cup would be nice. But as 5times say it is probably our best chance of winning the league.
Forget Mourinho or Pep because it will be very difficult for them to hit the ground running. Not only have they just landed at their new clubs, but the euros is on, so they can't have a proper pre season anyway. Once the euros finishes then players take their holidays with their family's so they will both have very little time to prepare. They will sign a bunch of new players each too and it doesn't matter how good of a manager you are, those players will need time to gel. Same applies to Conte.
Although Leicester were brilliant throughout this season, it still has to go down as a fluke. They won't repeat what they did next season, especially with the demand of European football.
I expect Spurs to be strong, they have a top manager in Pochettino. Arsenal will also be there or thereabouts. Neither are a huge threat though. They aren't invincible.
We on the other hand have had a season under Klopp now. Our players know how he wants to play and what he expects from them. We will strengthen in key areas like GK and LB where we really struggled this season. We have no European football which is a dent to our pride for a club of our stature but we won't have to rotate the squad. We might have finished 8th but remember the injury crisis we had mid season? Just after Klopp arrived actually and our players were pulling hammys every other day? How many reserve teams did we put out to keep our first 11 fresh for Europe too? Particularly towards the end of the season.
So our players will be fresh and presumably injury free. We have Ings and Gomez coming back in who I think will be huge squad players for us, both of them are great options to have. Sakho has got off from sniffing glue too which is a huge lift. We will go back to 1 game a week and last time we did that we almost won the f**king thing.
I expect big things from us next season and I am definitely not one of those supporters who says 'next year will be our year'. But I actually think it f**king will be.
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