Looks like the last 6-7 games are going to kill them. Top teams or relegation threatened teams away !
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Looks like the last 6-7 games are going to kill them. Top teams or relegation threatened teams away !
To be fair, many of us were worrying about making 4th even then.
As I said Ltw easily fourth
No. Unless we buy a couple of players who can, atleast, push for a starting spot. We need that in the long run.
Flaw in this method being it implies Utd are still as strong as last season as opposed to our indifferent form then.
Glorified guesswork at best.
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I am now at 50/50. It's going to be nail-biting intense to the end I believe.
I would say we're about 80%, if we can manage to win the next two games it will move to 90%
All these things are to an extent. Besides, given the final table that flaw doesn't really make any difference - all it does is (potentially) underestimate the gap between us and the Mancs.
If they're the team we beat to get the last CL place, that'll make it all the sweeter. 😎
Still think this Jules? 🙂
Ha. Yes, pretty much - we're not even out of January yet. I'd sooner be where we are in the league than where the rest are, though.
Funny how pessimism can grab you then 1 result later and a couple of transfer rumours it can all but dissapear, fickle as fuck.
If we sign MVila and Kono then we will coast it, without them i can't help thinking we will fuck it up though not by as much as i thought before the Everton game.
Everton are surely gone now, can't see them keeping up after that blow and the injuries.
If we sign MVila and Kono then we will coast it, without them i can't help thinking we will fuck it up though not by as much as i thought before the Everton game.
Everton are surely gone now, can't see them keeping up after that blow and the injuries.
Well Spurs are still quite close to us even after the 5-0 drubbing. Plus, I hope Everton do OK for the remainder of the reason, just so that they'll finish slightly above Utd and piss Moyes off.
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For the first time in a long while I think it would be premature to write of Everton.
They have got quite a lot of good players coming back from injuries and Baines and Barkley in particular looks class. Their last game aside.
Lukaku and Barkley are both going to be out for a little while though, Kristian, and the way young Stones performed last Tuesday doesn't suggest their back-up is necessarily of the highest quality. I wouldn't write them off either but I doubt they'll end up as our closest challengers.
Shame, innit? 😀
Shame, innit? 😀
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so everyone shit the fuck up now and listen:
'we are finishing fourth this season', all what matters is if we can finish a little above that
The only team I can see catching us now is the scum.
Yep. They're quietly pushing Moyes envelope forwards. He's clearly had some pr training recently, the presser he did after signing Mata was much better. They'll back him with some signings & I think they will push us hard, along with some very quiet help from Fergie to Moyes regards tactics in some games.
Same here, despite the handicap of Moyes.
The game against them will be fucking huge for our season and theirs, ive had this feeling for quite sometime we are going to stamp all over them at the theatre of shite.
I bet the current actual table would have looked different had they used this same "projection" method...
They have a couple of tough matches coming up and their last 7 matches are all tough (top teams or away at relegation threatened teams). I think 10 points behind us is about right.
Purslow:
[article=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2548615/Liverpool-MUST-finish-four-face-years-wilderness-says-ex-Kop-chief.html#ixzz2rtRubHLu ]Liverpool must qualify for next season's Champions League or risk being cut further adrift from big-spending rivals for 'generations' according to former managing director Christian Purslow.
Brendan Rodgers' side currently occupy fourth spot in the Premier League - three points ahead of Tottenham and six of Manchester United.
Their cause was helped massively on Tuesday night as Everton were swept aside 4-0 at Anfield, but Purslow is concerned at the ever-increasing, 'impossible to bridge' monetary gap between those who enter the continent's premier competition and the Europa League.
Arsenal, who finished fourth last year, earned around £55million after negotiating their way through the qualification stages of the Champions League this season.
With that figure set to soar Purslow is warning Liverpool, who have not been in the Champions League since 2009, cannot afford to finish outside the top four, and if they do it could set them back years.
Speaking on talkSPORT's Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, he said: 'Liverpool’s issue is that they are playing with one hand tied behind their back financially because of that massive advantage the top four confers over those that miss out.
'I haven’t seen too many people referring to it but next year that Champions League advantage becomes almost an impossible gap to bridge, so the difference between fourth and fifth could be something that lasts for generations. The stakes are as high as they have ever been.'
That makes the need to land a player capable of impacting immediately to help stave off David Moyes' resurgent United a priority before Friday's transfer deadline.
Rodgers missed out on Mohamed Salah, who opted for a switch to Chelsea, but is closing in on Yevhen Konoplyanka for £20million.
That is the sort of statement of intent required to rival that of the £37million United splurged on Juan Mata this week, who Purslow believes will provide the stiffest competition to Liverpool during the run-in.
'I think this will boil down to a United-Liverpool right to the wire [fight] for fourth,' he added.
'I fully expect Mata to be the turning point for United. I think he will be the first of several [big signings] and I think United will turn a corner.
'Whether they do that in time to catch fourth will be tight but in a year’s time I think Chelsea may be wondering whether they strengthened a competitor and regret it.'[/article]
On a sidenote, who were the sales/purchases that were overseen by Purslow?
[article=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2548615/Liverpool-MUST-finish-four-face-years-wilderness-says-ex-Kop-chief.html#ixzz2rtRubHLu ]Liverpool must qualify for next season's Champions League or risk being cut further adrift from big-spending rivals for 'generations' according to former managing director Christian Purslow.
Brendan Rodgers' side currently occupy fourth spot in the Premier League - three points ahead of Tottenham and six of Manchester United.
Their cause was helped massively on Tuesday night as Everton were swept aside 4-0 at Anfield, but Purslow is concerned at the ever-increasing, 'impossible to bridge' monetary gap between those who enter the continent's premier competition and the Europa League.
Arsenal, who finished fourth last year, earned around £55million after negotiating their way through the qualification stages of the Champions League this season.
With that figure set to soar Purslow is warning Liverpool, who have not been in the Champions League since 2009, cannot afford to finish outside the top four, and if they do it could set them back years.
Speaking on talkSPORT's Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, he said: 'Liverpool’s issue is that they are playing with one hand tied behind their back financially because of that massive advantage the top four confers over those that miss out.
'I haven’t seen too many people referring to it but next year that Champions League advantage becomes almost an impossible gap to bridge, so the difference between fourth and fifth could be something that lasts for generations. The stakes are as high as they have ever been.'
That makes the need to land a player capable of impacting immediately to help stave off David Moyes' resurgent United a priority before Friday's transfer deadline.
Rodgers missed out on Mohamed Salah, who opted for a switch to Chelsea, but is closing in on Yevhen Konoplyanka for £20million.
That is the sort of statement of intent required to rival that of the £37million United splurged on Juan Mata this week, who Purslow believes will provide the stiffest competition to Liverpool during the run-in.
'I think this will boil down to a United-Liverpool right to the wire [fight] for fourth,' he added.
'I fully expect Mata to be the turning point for United. I think he will be the first of several [big signings] and I think United will turn a corner.
'Whether they do that in time to catch fourth will be tight but in a year’s time I think Chelsea may be wondering whether they strengthened a competitor and regret it.'[/article]
On a sidenote, who were the sales/purchases that were overseen by Purslow?
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