Tottenham I always thought were the most likely candidates as their team doesn't look half bad on paper but usually the managed to somehow underachieve so I wasn't super worried about them.
LvG told Hernandez he has 1% chance of playing. He could have helped with Martial doing well out wide creating a few chances.
I think that the 4th team will be at 70pts, do you really think that United are going to score 40pts out of 57?
66-67 points could do the job provided that Leicester won't be able to sustain their form (as many expect) and Liverpool won't dramatically improve on their preformances at home. However, even 66 points may be too difficult for us to achieve.
I don't want to be pessimistic but we won't make more than 65pts.
Do you think Leicester is going to keep this form up or scrape enough points to secure top 4? I'm confident they won't.
I see Liverpool scoring as much points or more than us and I also don't think that we are goind to score 9 more points than Leicester.
Leicester have won 39 points in the first half of the season. Even if they win only 26 points in the second half, they will still have a decent chance to finish in top 4. It will be difficult for United and Liverpool to win 36 points, especially given that both teams play in Europa league and could suffer from injuries and fatigue.
It took a freak run of 3 losses and a draw by Man Utd for Liverpool to equal the points. They are just as shit as United and even more so I'd say. I am confident United is not gonna have such a shit month like December again.
You can say the thing about Liverpool, they are not going to lose again against Newcastle or Watford while we might lose our lucky early wins.
True. I just think they are even more inconsistent than United is. I was also confident about United scraping fourth last season and I'd bet my money again on United getting top 4 this season.
Easy to take a post from August and say that..
Best option would be to get a quick wide player in and hope Martial delivers beyond his years to guide us to 4th.
Or........and I'm not saying he's worth this under normal circumstances.......offer Everton £60-65M for Lukaku, despite how good the TV money is right now I don't think they'd turn down a British record fee.
40 points from van Gaals next 57 games. Yes.
You gave me an idea with those 57 games. That's the amount of league games managed by Van gaal, during that time we scored 100 points, which means that we average 1.754 points per game, which means that statistically we should record 33.3 points in the next 19 games, which equals to 63 points.
I actually think we will finish on 58 points this season. I went through our remaining fixtures and made predictions like a right sad fecker. But yes statistically you are right and even with the league being so unpredictable I believe 63 will not be enough for a top four finish.
Haha
Yes, they almost certainly would reject it. Whow are they going to get to replace him with that money? It's a gamble.
They paid £28M for him, I think they'd accept over double what they paid for him, they simply don't have the kind of money to turn that down no matter the TV deal, especially when they'll never get a club as desperate as we are right now willing to offer that much.
I think 68 points enough for 4th this season.
Aren't Everton in talks over a sale to some wealthy Americans? Doubt they'd sell, although I would love Lukaku at United.
70 is an approximation and I don't see us match Arsenal's current record.
I haven't heard anything about them being in talks to sell, but if they are then that would scupper any deal, although I do feel Lukaku will be off regardless within the next 18 months.
Not sure I understand relevance of Arsenal here but I agree you won't be able to match them this season
Nice plan.
You said that we will score 68pts, to do that we will need to match Arsenal's first half of the season.
Would this get us in 7th place?
He would paint that as progress!
Oh, ok, thanks.
Correction: Instead we are hoping to finish sixth.
