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European & World Football / Re: Champions League 2023-2024
« Last post by waltonl4 on Today at 02:04:52 pm »Looking forward to this and Real massive favourites so come on. DORTMUND
We have a good squad with a good mix of youth, prime age range, and experienced heads in the group. The task for the summer needs to be:
1. Extend the contracts of TAA, VVD, and Mo. If any of them don't want to extend, then sell now to cash in and replace.
2. Replace Thiago and Matip in the squad. Quansah already stepped up to fill the void left by Joel's injury last season, and it sounds like Sepp had a very positive season on loan. Maybe he can return to round out the CB depth chart? Same logic applies for Tyler Morton and Stef Bajcetic -- it shouldn't be hard to fill Thiago's place in the squad as he barely kicked a ball these last 2 seasons.
3. Add quality to the starting 11. This could be 1 big time signing, or a couple of less expensive signings. It may also need to be done as a 1-out and 1-in situation, like replacing Gakpo, or Diaz, or Jones, etc with a significantly improved option. To be candid, I have been underwhelmed by most of the names we've been linked with like Dani Olmo, Ollie Watkins, etc. Hopefully Edwards is working on a piece of magic in the bbackground!! If we can get that 1 world class star to round out this group, I think we can really push for the title again next season.
I'm quite happy with Scott as manager,
I'm quite happy with Scott as manager, although I'm not gonna try and predict how successful he's gonna be. He'll have my full support from the off, but it will be interesting which players he off loads, who he retains, and who he might bring in. I'll give my verdict t after the first three or four prem games.
Pre season may give some indication, but it's not always a true measure of what's ahead. Good or bad.
Can't wait to get started now. Nervous, exited, expectant, doubtful, worried, elated, all at the same time !
Yes, arguably we did bottle it especially against Blueshite, we were still in the race when we faced them, they wanted it more than we did, so I agree we bottled out, not so much against your shower of sh*te though, in the Cup game you got the rub of the green, we played the better football but that doesnāt always work out as you well know,
As for the Ā£50, Iāll let you know once weāve had a half dozen games or so, Ferrari wonāt know their new car will be in contention to win F1 until itās spent time on the practice track will they ??ā¦ā¦.
You said yourself Numb Nuts, City are the best in the league, so itās abundantly clear that to overcome them you need to beat them no ?
Arse failed to beat them, at home, so yes they bottled out, not only that, they lost to Villa at home, another major F**k up, donāt get me wrong, for me they have played best football, Lego head has done a brilliant job, but ultimately they failed, they couldnāt reach their zenith by beating the best cheats in the history of the Premier League, Bottling out at the pivotal moment, that may seem harsh, but it is what it is, when it came down to the crunch, they couldnāt handle itā¦ā¦they Bottled it !!
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