14 Sep 2016 15:44:47
I said before a CL ball was kicked that we shudnt moan about getting beat in the CL guys.
Our prize is being there, there are many many clubs who would love to be there including that outfit we gubbed 5-1 at the weekend.
Ok we got gubbed but I have been a long time admirer of Barcelona and think this is their best ever team and arguably the best team/ strikeforce ever in football.
Guys CL football is where we want to be and altho we can't compete YET the money, prestige and potential players seeing us there means we can attract better/ more expensive players in the future because we certainly can't if we not there.
This money/ prestige/ experience etc can only improve us as a team and with our new manager and playing style we will improve just give it time lads.
14 Sep 2016 19:38:47
I think it would help if we could qualify for the Champions league and somehow avoid Barcelona.
This is the 3rd time in a row that we have been drawn in the same group as them, I know it's an experience playing them but our players are shot to pieces against them, the margin of defeat is getting bigger every time we play against them.
I'm not saying that we would qualify out of another group, I doubt we would, but against different opposition the players might have a different attitude, they might just feel that they have a slight chance and their outlook to the matches might be a bit more positive.
Man City drew them two years running in the knockout stages and with all their resources they couldn't cope with them, so what chance have we got.
14 Sep 2016 20:36:19
If that was deila, you would have been shouting for his head. I personally would much rather be in a competition where we will actually compete rather than get embarrassed.
14 Sep 2016 20:52:57
Gerry, The club will have £30M in the bank which is great for our future, If the price of that is getting thrashed off Barca, painful as it was, its a price worth paying. Very few teams on the planet could live with that Barcelona team last night. Our ambition now is to grab as many points points as we can and hopefully get 3rd to get Europa football after Christmas.
14 Sep 2016 21:26:12
What use to a football team is 30m in the bank? It should be on the pitch.
14 Sep 2016 21:38:59
Deila embarrassed us in the Europa league last season. We may as well be in the Champions league, at least the club is getting well paid for being embarrassed.
I think you always have to strive to do the best you can, in my view if you start accepting second best it'll only be a matter of time before we are overtaken domestically. If that mob from across the city were offered the Champions league money in return for a few thrashing they would bite your hand off, I don't want to give them that pleasure.
I personally want to maintain our dominance over Sevco, the best way for that to happen is to maintain a financial as well as football advantage.
In my opinion if we start to lower our ambitions, we will only allow Sevco the chance to earn these millions, I remember when their old club was doing their 9 in a row, it was a nightmare, the best way to avoid ever returning to those days is to keep our foot down on the gas and be the best that we can be.
14 Sep 2016 21:51:54
Unforunately gerrybhoy we will never know as RD never got us there, syas it all really.
14 Sep 2016 21:52:17
We can't avoid Barcelona, didn't you see one of the men involved in the draw taking a ball out, turning it around in his hand, putting it back in and drawing another ball😄😀😄😀.
14 Sep 2016 21:54:53
Also RD took a CL team (albeit last in group) to a Europa league team (last in group also) hardly progress mate, if that's what you want for our great club I suggest there is a new club in Glasgow who have ambitions like that maybe they will welcome you.
15 Sep 2016 17:20:55
So would you much rather see us getting pumped 7-0 and a laughing stock throughout Europe than us actually winning games? I don't give two monkeys about being in the champions league when we're getting pumped, I would much rather enjoy us winning games than getting ripped apart, but the same old will come up that we've got such n such in the bank. Well that's no use when it doesn't get spent on players, and until it does we will keep getting slaughtered. Roy Keane was spot on the other night aswell.