Too early for this shit.
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Ive stopped caring about pundits and journos. These days most are nothing more than bitter fans of their old clubs, who take no pride in their jobs, and have less ability to google some simple facts than the average person on a chat forum.
Remember last year when Dier would join Utd because we signed Wanyama and he wasnt getting any game time......they all couldnt google a simple Spurs line up and see that he was in defence for the 6 months he was supposedly out of the team?
What will happen if Kane gets injured???? Not ONE outlet mentioned we won every single game in the 11 weeks Kane missed with two separate injuries. No one mentioned that Son, Dele and Eriksen scored 54 goals.
No one mentioned that Son (a sub) scored more than Hazard, Coutinho and just a couple less than Costa and Lukaku.
The weak squad mantra, sucked up by our own fans too........how are we doing without Wanyama and Dembele then? How did we do without Rose? How are we doing without Walker?
Where are all the stats from our last 2 years against City? They are the best team on the planet? Sorry, havent we just finished above them for the last few years and taken 10pts off them in that period? Oh they spent another half billion, how admirable.
Liverpool are apparantley "breathtaking in attack"......Spurs win big. Can they keep Kane.
Fuck em......we can win the PL, but all it will mean is that we cant pay our players enough and they will all leave. And we dont win the PL, they will all leave to win stuff.
Fuck the media
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Oh FFS. Every fucking year with this shit. 
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Can we just not take one game at a time?
ochfacepalm:Can we just not take one game at a time?
We just need Eric Bristow to put his life savings on them now
Message to all that dont want to discuss topic:
Dont go into the thread
Dont go into the thread
WTF!!!
That's not how it works!!!
Fucking MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
City were unstoppable at this point last season. Until they got stopped.
Sure, but personally, I'd like to see a bit of expectation-management among the fanbase.
As many posters have said here and elsewhere, top 4 this season, with no home ground, would be a major achievement. A CL cup run would be a bonus. Domestic silverware of any sort, mainly just to kill the "haven't won anything" crap, would be phenomenal.
I hope we would celebrate that, and cheer the boys on, rather than moaning that we haven't won the Leagueor we aren't challenging the Arabs. I'm all for aiming high, but the whole ethos of this club now is 'building to greatness' - and we need to support that - every week and all season. Don't get too high and arrogant, don't get too low and critical.
I'm one of the forum old farts. I've supported this club for nearly 50 years and this, believe me, is the best of times. I now travel 6 hours there and back to watch us at Wembley, every game, because now is when this team needs support, in transition. If we give it support now it will stay together.
We need to be the exception to the other 5, every single one of them has lost their way, and by 'we' I mainly mean 'us' - the fans.
I get that but thinking we can challenge for the title doesnt mean that you expect the title, or will be disappointed with top 4 and/or a cup.
We should be going for the title as a club. This Wembley season will be a massive learning curve, and by taking a gap year and just feeling lucky to be in the top 6, we waste a huge opportunity to mature and grow as a team.
City won’t be able to demolish everyone 5-0 every week for the next 30 games. Like last year, people will become wise on how to stop them (after we stopped them) and they will stumble. We have been the most consistent team over the last 3 seasons and have shown that we can finish strong. We are 2 results behind them despite playing most of the season with a large chunk of what we would consider our first XI out of action. We will get stronger as they come back and the season goes on as we build to our peak. City are as strong as they can be (despite Aguero and Mendy out which doesn’t effect their style as much as our absentees.) and at their peak already. Unsustainable. Only one way it can from there. Not saying we will definitely win it, but to listen to the media, they are engraving the trophy and preparing the ribbons already. Blue and white ribbons will end up on the trophy, let’s just hope they are the right shade of blue.
Oh do fuck off.
Still too shaky at home for me to be super confident in them this early.
All predictions are completely pointless, they almost always reflect what you want to happen, there is no objective evaluation and in most cases they turn out to be wrong.
City may well stutter and fold. So might we. Or City might march on unhindered and win the league by a record margin. Or somewhere between. Not a single one of you would have predicted Leicester winning the league in October 2015 and I'd wager that almost all of you were confidently forecasting that they would collapse up until it seemed certain they wouldn't
People writing off United and Chelsea - would you have written us off if we'd lost on Sunday? Can you imagine the howling here and elsewhere at (insert name of most hated pundit cunt here) if they had done so?
City may well stutter and fold. So might we. Or City might march on unhindered and win the league by a record margin. Or somewhere between. Not a single one of you would have predicted Leicester winning the league in October 2015 and I'd wager that almost all of you were confidently forecasting that they would collapse up until it seemed certain they wouldn't
People writing off United and Chelsea - would you have written us off if we'd lost on Sunday? Can you imagine the howling here and elsewhere at (insert name of most hated pundit cunt here) if they had done so?
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The title has been our seasonly ambition since 2015. Only mis-educated melters who bathe in our failure think otherwise.
It’s the whole Wembley vibe for me. Sure, it’s great that we can raise a 73500 crowd against a team like Bournemouth (no disrespect to them but they aren’t a PL heavyweight) but the whole thing just feels very flat. Pockets of fans trying to get an atmosphere going from time to time, but it fades on the wind. I’m sure the players feel it too.
Moving back home can’t come soon enough.
I don’t think we will adapt to it there. It’s not our home & whilst we can dress it up a bit & throw the odd good party, the place doesn’t look, feel or sound like home. I hope I’m wrong & we start smashing it there, but I think a top 4 finish would be superb. Anything more would be a bonus & anything less, whilst disappointing, wouldn’t be unexpected.
If Milton Keynes and Fulham are such great grounds for home advantage - how come they both hardly ever win at home?
Don't forget the other 18 teams, Ahab, I don't think they'd give it to us for just beating City home and away.
ochlol:They were absolutely points dropped.
I won't say we should have beaten Swansea even though it's a game you want maximum points from.
But Chelsea we threw away a point and Burnley we threw away two.
Those fine margins become huge by April.....what we need to do is beat the likes of Utd Liverpool and Chelsea away, and not just accept those grounds as places where a point is good.
The fact we are even having this thread is insane considering we are playing the season at Wembley. This shows how good we really are. I can't wait for Chelsea playing there, I bet they are absolute shite and finish 10th (or whatever it was) again.