HanoiVillan Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, GlobalVillan said: Maybe, but we would have a squad to cope you'd hope. Has that been Newcastle's experience? You could say Newcastle have been unlucky with injuries this season, and I'd agree with that, but qualifying for the Champions League did not suddenly magic a new squad into existence. They spent a good chunk of money on Sandro Tonali, Harvey Barnes and Tino Livramento. It's hardly transformational. This is the point that @LondonLax has been making, people are expecting too much to change from CL qualification. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiezels Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 But its all down to money as sad as that is. And does getting into the champs league bring in more money than a FA cup final cup run? Probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 3 minutes ago, spiezels said: But its all down to money as sad as that is. And does getting into the champs league bring in more money than a FA cup final cup run? Probably. Probably? It’s around £40-50 million more to qualify for Champions League compared to winning the FA Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 10 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Has that been Newcastle's experience? You could say Newcastle have been unlucky with injuries this season, and I'd agree with that, but qualifying for the Champions League did not suddenly magic a new squad into existence. They spent a good chunk of money on Sandro Tonali, Harvey Barnes and Tino Livramento. It's hardly transformational. This is the point that @LondonLax has been making, people are expecting too much to change from CL qualification. To be really transformational we need to qualify for it 2-3 years in a row like Spurs did in the mid 2010s. I think we'd have a Newcastle type season even if we make it this year next season. Dropping into europa league while Emery is here wouldn't be that much of a disaster given how good his record is in that competition and winning that is another avenue into CL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said: Watching Arsenal here reminds me just how far we’ve got to go. Emery is working miracles but they’re miles better than us. People slagging us off on this thread for actually beating Arsenal because we were clinging on or whatever. Today shows what a fabulous result that actually was especially as we put so much into the Man. City game less than 72 hours before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 (edited) Lol, we’re not in this. Edited February 11 by Tayls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Well we need to **** do something because it's looking like a collapse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I think we all knew this was coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, Sulberto21 said: Lol That’s the spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 59 minutes ago, Tayls said: Lol, we’re not in this. Don't sound too happy now please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, The_Steve said: That’s the spirit Would you rather cry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
string28 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I think we need now to try and see if we can stay in the top 6 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Some perspective - we actually played well. We are mentally incapable of beating Man Utd. Play like that in our upcoming games and we remain in the running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, Sulberto21 said: Would you rather cry? Plenty of games left to get it right. Saw enough today to pick up points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, The_Steve said: Don't sound too happy now please Clearly not about being ‘happy’ is it. But it’s still a joke or an idea to even consider at this point. We are dreadful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Can close the tread now. What's worst about this was we could have just had a normal season and ended 6th or 7th and we'd be happy. Now it's just failure we can feel like the MON days 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 That's the big problem that remains for us as a club really. We're a better footballing team than Man. United. We showed that for about 80% of the game. However they hung in there somehow and while likes of Diaby and Luiz were wasterfully screwing shots wide at 1-1 they produced the cross of the game and won it. We can never shake off the feeling no matter how much we spent that we're not quite good enough to achieve things at a crucial part of the season. It's an inferiority complex we can't quite kick the habit of. Was there in the MON seasons and looks like this season is going to turn out a replica of 08/09 which will be even more crushing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, Spoony said: Some perspective - we actually played well. We are mentally incapable of beating Man Utd. Play like that in our upcoming games and we remain in the running. We lost… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 We're still 5 points ahead of them and with better goal difference. This result is very bad, there's no getting around it, but it was hardly unlikely and we're still involved. At least there were signs of improvement in the performance today. Lots of work for Emery to do though, the danger of choking completely is very real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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