I just looked up my post from April in this thread. Still holds up to what I feel now although I have eased up a bit on Perisic.For me, the demand for a trophy is on no matter what the circumstances. Even in our most desperate mid-table or lower years, I still wanted a trophy.
The main thing I want from the players and staff next season is total commitment to win every single match. Whatever happens next season, I want us to end it feeling like we gave our all.
I want next season to completely blow this season away. I want Conte, Paratici and Perisic to be nothing but weird memories I can't be bothered to think about because we're completely smashing it!
These are the things I want from the 23/24 season:
1) attacking football
2) top 6 finish
3) last 8 or better in the domestic cups
A trophy is the ultimate goal but there are a lot of ifs and maybes with cups and our last 4 trophies have all coincided with poor league form. We can hope for a trophy but it can't be an ironclad, non-negotiable requirement so I've gone for last 8 as a minimum benchmark for competitiveness.