Successful Season

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Re: Successful Season

Postby Benjay » Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:12 am

Reasons to be positive -

1) We have/will qualified for the Champs League again.
2) Qualifying for the CL is now taken as red every season.
3) The club is very well run. Khaldoon and Co have proven that City are not just toy to play with.
4) The club has a lot of money.
5) Despite the above, City fans remain grounded IMO - never forgetting where we have come from.
6) We - on paper - have a good squad with the ability to change things financially. Players not deemed up for it are saleable assets. No more getting stuck with players like Wayne Bridge.
7) We won a cup. 5 years ago just a trip to Wembley would have been a pipe dream.
8) Last 3 seasons we have finished 1st, 2nd and maybe 2nd/3rd. It does not read too badly in a highly competitive league. This is not the Scottish Premier or Bundesliga.
9) City are becoming a global brand.
10) Whatever his shortcomings Pellers has built a happier squad. Bullies do not always prosper as manager. Jose is no bully nor is Rodgers. There are examples for and against but the performance in the final against Wigan was more a protest than a bad day at the office.
11) We have a great youth set up with a manager who will probably step up to the top job at some point.
12) We are no more a yo yo club struggling to buy and sell, who wheel out Tony Book, Buzza etc ( god bless them all) to remind us that we won a League Cup in the 70's. We are here and now a force. The press may not recognise it but do we need their attention? We are going nowhere, we are ambitious and we will strive to improve. Abu Dhabi want that, Txixi wants that, the fans want it, and soon ALL the players will want it.
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Re: Successful Season

Postby geepeetee » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:08 am

Benjay wrote:Reasons to be positive -

1) We have/will qualified for the Champs League again.
2) Qualifying for the CL is now taken as red every season.
3) The club is very well run. Khaldoon and Co have proven that City are not just toy to play with.
4) The club has a lot of money.
5) Despite the above, City fans remain grounded IMO - never forgetting where we have come from.
6) We - on paper - have a good squad with the ability to change things financially. Players not deemed up for it are saleable assets. No more getting stuck with players like Wayne Bridge.
7) We won a cup. 5 years ago just a trip to Wembley would have been a pipe dream.
8) Last 3 seasons we have finished 1st, 2nd and maybe 2nd/3rd. It does not read too badly in a highly competitive league. This is not the Scottish Premier or Bundesliga.
9) City are becoming a global brand.
10) Whatever his shortcomings Pellers has built a happier squad. Bullies do not always prosper as manager. Jose is no bully nor is Rodgers. There are examples for and against but the performance in the final against Wigan was more a protest than a bad day at the office.
11) We have a great youth set up with a manager who will probably step up to the top job at some point.
12) We are no more a yo yo club struggling to buy and sell, who wheel out Tony Book, Buzza etc ( god bless them all) to remind us that we won a League Cup in the 70's. We are here and now a force. The press may not recognise it but do we need their attention? We are going nowhere, we are ambitious and we will strive to improve. Abu Dhabi want that, Txixi wants that, the fans want it, and soon ALL the players will want it.


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Re: Successful Season

Postby TheBlueCatsWhiskers » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:15 am

Benjay wrote:Reasons to be positive - 1) We have/will qualified for the Champs League again. 2) Qualifying for the CL is now taken as red every season. 3) The club is very well run. Khaldoon and Co have proven that City are not just toy to play with. 4) The club has a lot of money. 5) Despite the above, City fans remain grounded IMO - never forgetting where we have come from. 6) We - on paper - have a good squad with the ability to change things financially. Players not deemed up for it are saleable assets. No more getting stuck with players like Wayne Bridge. 7) We won a cup. 5 years ago just a trip to Wembley would have been a pipe dream. 8) Last 3 seasons we have finished 1st, 2nd and maybe 2nd/3rd. It does not read too badly in a highly competitive league. This is not the Scottish Premier or Bundesliga. 9) City are becoming a global brand. 10) Whatever his shortcomings Pellers has built a happier squad. Bullies do not always prosper as manager. Jose is no bully nor is Rodgers. There are examples for and against but the performance in the final against Wigan was more a protest than a bad day at the office. 11) We have a great youth set up with a manager who will probably step up to the top job at some point. 12) We are no more a yo yo club struggling to buy and sell, who wheel out Tony Book, Buzza etc ( god bless them all) to remind us that we won a League Cup in the 70's. We are here and now a force. The press may not recognise it but do we need their attention? We are going nowhere, we are ambitious and we will strive to improve. Abu Dhabi want that, Txixi wants that, the fans want it, and soon ALL the players will want it.


This team still have work to do. Tough away games at Palace and Everton. Teams breathing down our neck. I would settle for third.
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Re: Successful Season

Postby Bridge'srightfoot » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:33 am

As others have said, the main issue for us is that when we've had the chance to really grab hold of this title race we have failed. Chelsea at home being the first one, a win there would have put us six points clear and in my opinion we would have gone on to win the title and really taken momentum from that.
Arsenal away being the second one, we were outplaying them, took an early lead but then messed up a load of great situations and ended up hanging on for a draw. We really should have won that.
Finally the Liverpool game, a chance to go five points clear, we do brilliantly to get back into the game but an individual error cost us.

We all know we have the ability, but perhaps not the mental strength we showed in the run in two seasons ago.
Champions would win those games. How many times did we see Taggart sides go away to places such as the Emirates, White Hart Lane and Anfield and come away with victories at the business end of the season with far worse sides then our current one?
Similarly that first leg against Barcelona, we were like a deer in the headlights, so frightened.

I do like Pellegrini and want him to be given another season at least. Some of the football we have produced has been wonderful and the season has been very entertaining but perhaps he doesn't have that ruthlessness and desire in the home straight that we need. Only time will tell.
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