Oh stop it you tease.
Barring a load of injuries, you won't drop 6 points.
losing the Epl it will be very hard to take. But giving the choice between the two, not sure, it wouldn't be as painful if we win the champions league. ok, I take the champions league and the FA cup
PL is the priority all day long, so based on your question, I'll see how they both turn out naturally!
Play out naturally. Maybe its just me but while I'd love to win the CL the prem is the main goal.
I think the reason is you are winning ugly. I think we either dominate or it just doesn't happen. It hinges on Palace game if we win that I'll be confident. But I don't fancy us to beat Spurs three times in 2 weeks and I fancy us to draw twice and win one of the Etihad games. OT is always hard but you never quite know which United will turn up. We could very well win all our games but I don't see it.Oh stop it you tease.
I think we're going to drop points somewhere. It feels like we're not really in control of games at the moment whereas you've got a handle on every game you play.
The big question is whether or not City win all of their remaining league games. If you drop points in two games I think it might be enough for us.
Fair play, and a good point on the importance of winning both. Still, you've a hell of a tough run if you are to win big ears with Spurs, followed by Juve & Barcelona in all likelihood.
Yeah, in fairness if you wanna be the best gotta beat the best. We got nice draws in the CC and FA Cup so I'd not complain about that run in the CL (if we get by Spurs). We also got a decent CL group and last 16.
Naturally, be no point otherwise. I'd also rather win the league then the CL
I don't see it. City are hitting their stride and the only game I see them dropping points is at Old Trafford (Manchester derbies are so unpredictable). Liverpool are really grinding things out and can see them dropping points on a whim because they are winning games so narrowly.It feels like the team in front is playing under more pressure.
So may be Liverpool losing their lead early in the run in May help them.
City will drop points before Liverpool do, then the pressure is back with Liverpool. I think they may just do it.
That's the day I cancel my sky sports and Wifi
No way you drop points in 3 consecutive games the way you’re playing now, unfortunately.
Hope ýour right.
I think that it's too close to call and no one wants to be cocky and look like a tit if it goes tits up
If Liverpool win the league, the only people logging in on here for about a month will be Liverpool fans anyway.
I really really dislike the way that the Press think that everyone wants Liverpool to win the league, and seemingly are obsessed by them. I have my own reasons why, but don't want to mix politics with football. Save to say, as a neutral (so to speak) in the upper echelons of the Premier League, I want Man City to win. I want them to win everything. That way it demonstrates how ridiculous a situation it is, where the teams that spend the most win everything. It might also show how ridiculous it is preventing other teams outside the big 6 from spending equally big. I often go on about it, how I dislike the way football is now. So few players are brought through academies, instead teams go out and buy. We all do it. Some to a larger extent than others. I would love to see a rule brought in that you had to have 3 or 4 academy players in your starting XI, but realise that that will never happen.
I'm dreading it. Just wanna have a few pints already to calm down the nerves. It has come this far that I think Southampton away is 10 times more difficult than Porto at home next week.
I used Southampton as a prime example of a victim of modern football in a thread a few weeks ago. If football was structured fairly then you'd currently be reaping the rewards of doing everything right. Instead you've had most of your brilliant academy products poached off you and even had your managers poached off you too.
True. Supporting a big club & being against big-money takeovers is basically telling all the other clubs to "learn your fecking place & be happy where you are - maybe you'll get lucky & fluke a trophy every 30 years."
Oh feck off if you and Chelsea hadn't bought your way to the top, plenty of other clubs would have made their way up in a sustainable fashion and won trophies with the other clubs wobbling.
Haha thought you'd arrive.
There's a difference between a big money takeover allowing a club to spend the money they earn (rather than it being run as profit making machine) and a situation like City where you have billions pumped in to the club and dressed up as genuine income. That isn't fair on anybody and makes a mockery of the competition, there's no two ways about it. At the big clubs, money is still limited because they're not ran as a playtoy, they have finances but they still spend sustainably.
They play the best football in the country, are currently in a really competitive title race, and are always entertaining to follow.
We've gone totally off topic, but give me your plan to make Southampton a title-winning team in the next 5-10 years under football's current structure and I'll probably reply with some green smileys too.
We're currently a top 4 team despite a net spend lower than the likes of Stoke recently. We've spent money but in a sustainable fashion, and were a mid table club before that. We would currently have a league title if it wasn't for the takeover by Abramovich (16/17) and who knows, maybe we would push on from that? We won't know though, because a playtoy club won it instead.
You said "plenty of clubs." And your examples are Spurs, who were obviously not the type of low to mid-table club I was referring to (undeniably Levy has done a superb job though), Leicester (who failed FFP before they won the league and have now fallen away), and Wolves (who likely creatively cheated FFP, and who closed the gap down to 6th to a manageable 14 points with their win the other night).
