Jump to content

The Europeometer™ (2024/25) - NUFC Qualify for Conference League (at least)


Recommended Posts

  On 18/02/2023 at 20:09, Nine said:

Why do people go on like spending recklessly and chucking out our FFP structure would have guaranteed top 4? Let’s be real, doing that comes with massive risk and it easily could have not paid off. Thankfully management had the sense to not get itchy trigger fingers but if there was a favourable deal to be done for a CM we would have done it. If you’ve not been won over to trust the process by what we’ve seen already then there’s no hope for you.

 

About time people wake up and realise that because we’ve spent time in the top 4 this season it doesn’t mean we are ready for a CL campaign, and ironically it’s the same thing that would be said by some people if we did qualify and then struggle in the league due to the extra schedule (‘why didn’t we spend more’!!!).  The answer to progress for a club in our transitional situation is not always spend spend spend.

 

 

 

Expand  


It is when your strength in depth is nonexistent. 

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 20:09, Nine said:

Why do people go on like spending recklessly and chucking out our FFP structure would have guaranteed top 4? Let’s be real, doing that comes with massive risk and it easily could have not paid off. Thankfully management had the sense to not get itchy trigger fingers but if there was a favourable deal to be done for a CM we would have done it. If you’ve not been won over to trust the process by what we’ve seen already then there’s no hope for you.

 

About time people wake up and realise that because we’ve spent time in the top 4 this season it doesn’t mean we are ready for a CL campaign, and ironically it’s the same thing that would be said by some people if we did qualify and then struggle in the league due to the extra schedule (‘why didn’t we spend more!!!’). The answer to progress for a club in our transitional situation is not always spend spend spend.

 

 

 

Expand  

The cream will rise to the top when those around us slowly fail and get caught out...

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 20:11, Ronaldo said:


It is when your strength in depth is nonexistent. 

Expand  

How should we have restructured our FFP plans then? Just say fuck it and spend big money on a CM?

 

Who would you have signed to replace Bruno when he got suspended?

 

 

Edited by Nine

Link to post
Share on other sites

Clearly the owners have high ambitions, but it takes time to put together a quality squad. They're a summer and two January transfer markets in and one of those we were in 19th place.

 

With the right individuals in place and plenty of money behind them, I have no doubt we'll be competing for trophies and European spots on regular basis. 

 

Obviously it'd be nice to track to fast track things a bit, but it's not the end of the world if we don't.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Ronaldo embarrassing himself on every thread on this forum is quite something, especially since I only managed it on the traitors thread.

 

When he got married and lost his virginity he was chilled as fuck and disappeared, almost makes me long for the days of Mike Ashley.

Link to post
Share on other sites

It may well be a bit of an opportunity missed this season not splashing in January but that was never the plan.

 

I'm not so confident in getting top 4 now given Liverpool will play 3 times before we play a game that isn't Man City (a). But we're in pole position to get some kind of European football which, after struggling against relegation for so much of last season, is a hell of a bonus when factoring in the bigger picture. Thinking "awh Bruno and Botman will fuck off then" is a bit overly pessimistic. Quasi masochistic. :lol:

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 20:32, STM said:

Ronaldo embarrassing himself on every thread on this forum is quite something, especially since I only managed it on the traitors thread.

 

When he got married and lost his virginity he was chilled as fuck and disappeared, almost makes me long for the days of Mike Ashley.

Expand  


Think what you want. We had a great chance to build upon a very flattering brilliant first half of the season and we didn’t despite it being glaring obvious how poor we are in depth. I don’t want to negative but I just don’t see us having the same opportunity next season. 
 

We’ve made fantastic strides assisted hugely by Almiron’s purple patch but anyone defending that abysmal transfer window is the one embarrassing themselves. 

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 21:05, Ronaldo said:


Think what you want. We had a great chance to build upon a very flattering brilliant first half of the season and we didn’t despite it being glaring obvious how poor we are in depth. I don’t want to negative but I just don’t see us having the same opportunity next season.
 

We’ve made fantastic strides assisted hugely by Almiron’s purple patch but anyone defending that abysmal transfer window is the one embarrassing themselves. 

Expand  

 

And say we did finish 4th would we have the opportunity to finish 4th next season? 

 

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 21:05, Ronaldo said:


Think what you want. We had a great chance to build upon a very flattering brilliant first half of the season and we didn’t despite it being glaring obvious how poor we are in depth. I don’t want to negative but I just don’t see us having the same opportunity next season. 
 

We’ve made fantastic strides assisted hugely by Almiron’s purple patch but anyone defending that abysmal transfer window is the one embarrassing themselves. 

Expand  

 

We did drop £40million on an attacking player, like. And we didn't sell anyone important. It was hardly abysmal

 

Would it have been abysmal if we'd kept Shelvey? I can't see him massively impacting any of the results we've had since he departed. 

Link to post
Share on other sites

I think we can still finish 4th tbh, Liverpool were less impressive than I thought, and they are still 6pts behind us. Spurs aren't convincing, and Chelsea are a car crash at the moment. Obviously they all have better squads than us, but we have some character, and we could easily put a string of wins together like we did earlier in the season, and last season.

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 21:08, Geordie Ahmed said:

 

And say we did finish 4th would we have the opportunity to finish 4th next season? 

 

Expand  


I think we’d have a far better chance, yeah. It elevates the club and everyone in it playing at that level. Makes it so much easier to attract your top targets and keep your top players happy.

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 21:16, Ronaldo said:


I think we’d have a far better chance, yeah. It elevates the club and everyone in it playing at that level. Makes it so much easier to attract your top targets and keep your top players happy.

Expand  

Fair enough, I don't disagree 

 

I just feel the trajectory we are on, with no doubt a clear plan that we will get there 

Link to post
Share on other sites

  On 18/02/2023 at 20:49, MrRaspberryJam said:
Expand  

I do read the news, you know. As I’ve said, I don’t think they will be punished that hard. Modern football is broken in so many ways. As things are now, I think there will be formed a Super League somewhere in the future.  

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...