We'd choke as usual. We went to the UEFA Cup final against Galatasaray and flopped. I just want Wenger gone so we can have a fresh chapter. We've stagnated for too long and it's catching up on us.
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We'd choke as usual. We went to the UEFA Cup final against Galatasaray and flopped. I just want Wenger gone so we can have a fresh chapter. We've stagnated for too long and it's catching up on us.
That was in 2000, way before we were known for choking.
We battered them in that game and had 'one of those days'.
I don't think one year out of the CL would be as big a disaster as some are making out and I don't think it would be a one way trip and we'd never get back in the top 4. We've got enough history of qualifying to suggest that with the right signings in the summer we'd be up there again even if we don't finish top 4 this year.
Where's our history of the "right signings in the summer"? - Man Utd will have to buy big & they will, If City lose out they'll buy the best, The ambition at Liverpool is clear to see, they will strengthen defensively & probably buy another quality midfielder & ofcourse Maureen will be spending Roman's money to bring in a world class forward-line. If Wenger has his usual summer of under priced bids, not meeting wage demands etc, we will struggle for 5th place next year.Originally Posted by Letters
We battered them in that game and had 'one of those days'.
I don't think one year out of the CL would be as big a disaster as some are making out and I don't think it would be a one way trip and we'd never get back in the top 4. We've got enough history of qualifying to suggest that with the right signings in the summer we'd be up there again even if we don't finish top 4 this year.
We don't have much of a history of right signings, granted, but we clearly tried to get Suarez last summer and we did get Ozil who, for all his patchy form, is clearly a great player and is by some distance the most ambitious signing we've made for ages. The new commercial deals are in place so we should be able to continue that.
We led the table for a long time this year, we're looking poor right now but I don't believe we're suddenly a bad side. I think we'll be OK next year.
We had a rep for choking in Europe during that period and competing in lesser competition didn't help our nerves even though we had some great players. What makes you think we'd fair any better when this 'choking' problem has grown worse and we have lesser players than we did years before?
We battered them in that game and had 'one of those days'.
I don't think one year out of the CL would be as big a disaster as some are making out and I don't think it would be a one way trip and we'd never get back in the top 4. We've got enough history of qualifying to suggest that with the right signings in the summer we'd be up there again even if we don't finish top 4 this year.
Who said I thought we'd fare any better?
Then what's your point?
My point is you asserting we'd 'choke as usual', and using something that happened 14 years ago as backup, is pretty spurious.
I don't think so. When we were bossing the Premier League, the talk of the town was about our poor CL league performances. We'd hardly ever turn up and pressure got to us. Going to a lesser competition won't settle the nerves and if that was true 14 years ago when we had a team of title winners, it's even more true today with our frail and mentally weak team.
We've actually done better in the CL since that era. Yes, we're consistently losing to the real European giants but this year we got through a tough group. Against a lesser calibre of opposition in the Europa League I reckon we'd do OK.
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