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I am unsurprisingly in favor of buying all the Koreans, but given the prestige Man United still enjoy in Korea (support is still on a different level to any other PL club) I'd be surprised if he went anywhere else.

I think what he's achieved so far is sufficient to entitle him to benefit of the doubt forever, no matter how badly things go going forward. Certainly wouldn't even consider turning on him even if we had a European hangover next season and landed somewhere mid-table.

Definitely want Paris. Might even be able to convince the wife to go.

I log on here today after the match specifically so I can not think about basketball and Mike hits me with the driveby shooting.

Also, mods please make the forum autoplay the Champions League theme at extremely loud rick-roll level volumes when you load up the page. Just for one day. People won't mind.

This is extremely cringy and I'm almost too embarrassed to talk about it, but in the late 00s-early 10s when I was still playing a lot of FM, I remember whenever I got Newcastle in the Champions League I would fantasize about newspaper headlines, what people would say on podcasts, and even how various posters on here would react. I've gone through that exercise so many times in my head, I genuinely don't know how to react now that all of it is real.

Players are people too and just like any other people, many of them have difficulty adjusting to a new job foreign country where they don’t speak the language. For many years it was painfully clear that we put zero effort into helping our foreign signings adjust, which is certifiably insane when you consider that each represents a multi million pound investment.

Literally the sort of thing I had to play about 700 hours of football manager from 2006 to 2016 to fantasize about. It all feels fake. Surely someone has hooked us up to the matrix.

Newcastle in the Champions League. This Football Manager shit is actually going to happen.

There is no ground or arena in any country in the world in any sport where the fans will be in full voice at 5-0 up (or the equivalent) man that’s just a completely unreasonable expectation unless you’re going to downsize every stadium to 5,000, sell tickets only to Ultras, and kick out all the normies.

Anything short of 25-0 will be a disappointment I say.

Combine Almiron’s first half of the season and Murphy’s second half and you’ve got one world class player. This is why having a squad is good!

Whole point of being in Europe is to see us playing against the best sides, travel to historic grounds etc. It’s not like we’re realistically aiming to win the CL next year so bring them all on I say.

Given the likely implications for CL qualification, probably a top 4 result since I’ve started following the club, alongside 4-4 at home against Arsenal (RIP Cheick), 2-0 away at Stamford Bridge, and 2-0 at home against Liverpool with Jose Enrique playing goalkeeper? Maybe I’ve missed a couple from the years I was away, but I suspect not many good things happened in that time period.

Sometimes the team plays badly and we lose. This is a welcome transition from the bad old days, when most of the time the team played badly and we lost.

We're going to play in the Champions League what is life.

"Oh no, Isaak is out and we only have serial one-in-two Premier League goalscorer Callum Wilson to bring off the bench? What do we do?"

Having an actual squad is a very good and unfamiliar feeling.

Similar. Supported this team for long enough that the sheer amount of effort required to ratchet up the meter above a five for anything positive is Herculean, but it’s creeping up there.

Wasn’t a good coach to begin with and hasn’t had a real job in years. Ticks all the boxes.

Winning the League Cup to a Man United fan probably generates about as much joy as winning an away league game by two goals against solid opposition does for us. Every draw probably feels like a 3-0 loss, the average league win barely noticeable. They’ll never experience our lows but they’ll never know our highs either. It’s a shit way to be a fan, if you think about it.

Didn’t realize this was next in the fixture list. Can we just not show up and take the 3-0 loss or whatever you get for failing to field a team

People got to meet Mike? Fuck the league cup finals, this is the opportunity of a lifetime I’ve missed by not being able to go this weekend.

Who needs these tin pot trophies anyway. First one to break the drought should be the League or the CL

We may have fallen short of the finish line today but the pain is blunted by the fact that we all know the club is at least going in the right direction now. This isn’t like under Ashley where any cup run was a massive fluke and defeat felt like a crushing blow because we’d probably never advance as far again. We will be back. Club is already massively ahead of schedule in terms of delivering a cup finals and a decent shot at European football just a year after being in the relegation places. Would have been nice to get lucky for once and go a step further, but this year everything is a bonus as far as I’m concerned.