It's an interesting world where we slag off the likes of Scott Sinclair and claim (rightly) that he's only doing well as it's a relatively weak league, THEN say "lets see how they get on in the Champions league". Very odd.
I'm more interested to be totally honest in how WE get on the Champions league. I'm not exactly brimming with confidence that we'll steamroll our way through it either, but we'll see.
Behave Mick, taking statements from different people and suggesting they were said in contrast to each other to push a narrative gets us nowhere. If you want to debate Brendan go right ahead but when people pull you up on your statements it's better to defend them than throw in this this type of comment because this is what truly attempts to shut down debate, it's convoluted rubbish mate and you know it.
So we're clear, it was me who said about the "let's see about the CL" after you started handing out "astonishing achievement" awards. I tried to contextualise what kind of achievement Brendan really achieved, and highlighted how Neil Lennon performed both previously at Celtic and prior to that at Bolton. To me both this analysis and the one done later by Guruji shows what we all really know, the Scottish Premier league is a terrible, totally uncompetitive league where even poor managers can have success.
Guruji did an excellent bit of analysis for your "best signing in the WHOLE of Europe" award and in your opinion slagged off Scott Sinclair in doing so. Really he was simply adding the context and comparison to your statement so we could see if what you said was justifiable or if indeed players simply produce better numbers when playing for a team as dominant as Celtic.
These statements or analysis weren't in contrast as you try to suggest they were taking your statements and adding context and expanding the debate something that should be encouraged on a forum as it is exactly what makes the place interesting in my opinion. If Dembele goes on and proves to be the "best signing in the WHOLE of Europe" then fair fucks to you it's a great prediction. However when people try to counter your predictions at least defend them straight on as they have attempted to counter you straight on, don't come out with this rubbish mate because you're much better than that.
As for you being more concerned with how WE'LL do in the CL. A discussion for another thread but I too wouldn't be expecting too much from us either on first time of asking but I would go in there with much more confidence than I did when Brendan was managing us for many reasons but the most compelling being our record against the better teams in the league. Under Brendan we performed worst when the opposition got better, under Jürgen we perform much better as the standard of the opposition gets higher, to me that is the sign of a top class manager.
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