TRon Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Just now, Andy said: The fact Bournemouth are below us in the league suggests that if we've been inconsistent, they've been inconsistent I thought they had a poor start under Iraola but they've improved steadily the longer he's been there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) After today. Not particularly confident of CL at all. Europa we have a great chance. Our home form against mid-table sort of sides and the performances to boot have been worrying. The next 3 league games are brutal. Almost feels like we have more chance of a result against City than we do at home to Forest. As mental as that sounds. I think they’ll cause us no end of bother with their counters and something feels massively off in a lot of our home games somehow. Everything is flat. From collective and individual performances to the sleepy crowd. Edited February 1 by Lush Vlad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Up to this point I have always been pretty confident we'll finish ahead of Forest and Bournemouth, I was more bothered about Chelsea and Villa. Now I'm revising that opinion, but we should get Europe in one form or another. Might see a couple of big stars moving if we don't make CL though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesmcc222 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, TRon said: Up to this point I have always been pretty confident we'll finish ahead of Forest and Bournemouth, I was more bothered about Chelsea and Villa. Now I'm revising that opinion, but we should get Europe in one form or another. Might see a couple of big stars moving if we don't make CL though. That’s potentially true but I think those stars are bought in enough to realise that if they don’t make the champions league that might be on them. I might be naive but there seems to be a collective responsibility there that they win together and lose together. And they owe it to each other to make it to the top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 No CL and at least 2/3 of the big three are off (Issak, Bruno or Tonali) They may be ‘bought in’ but realistically they will want the opportunity to win things or at least play regularly in the ‘big competitions’. Yep they will have been part of the squad that ‘failed’ to deliver but there’s little doubt they will be off imo. Hopefully we do enough for European competition so we keep them but we are so inconsistent it’s not beyond possibility we fail to get any let’s be honest. Really poor performance and result today. Really gutted 😞 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewel Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 The result today really done me in like. Nothing is lost yet of course, and this season could still turn out to be a really special one, but I feel like we will get more results and performances like today mixed in with the good ones. Apart from the 9 game winning streak, the inconsistency has really killed us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
astraguy Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 27/01/2025 at 07:28, astraguy said: Aston Villa Wolves (lost)(a), Ipswich (h), Chelsea (h), Palace (a), Brentford (a) Nottingham Forest Brighton (h) (won), Fulham (a), Newcastle (a), Arsenal (h), Manchester City (h) Newcastle United Fulham (h),(lost )Manchester City (a), Forest (h), Liverpool (a), West Ham (a) AFC Bournemouth Liverpool (h),(lost)Southampton (a), Wolves (h), Brighton (a), Spurs (a) Chelsea West Ham (h), Brighton (a), Aston Villa (a), Southampton (h), Leicester (h) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigs97 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Do any person(s) know the permutations that would give the EPL seven UCL places for season 25/26? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 9 minutes ago, Rigs97 said: Do any person(s) know the permutations that would give the EPL seven UCL places for season 25/26? Five via the league. English team wins the Champions League. English team wins the Europa League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 1 hour ago, The Prophet said: Five via the league. English team wins the Champions League. English team wins the Europa League. But would that have to include the teams winning the CL and EL being outside the PL top 5? i.e if Liverpool were to win the PL and CL, I don’t think 6th gets a CL place does it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 2 hours ago, Rigs97 said: Do any person(s) know the permutations that would give the EPL seven UCL places for season 25/26? 5 via the league, then an English club winning the Champions League finishing outside of the top 5, so most likely Aston Villa. Then either Spurs or Man Utd winning the Europa League, safe to assume neither of them will finish in the top 5 either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 ‘Champions’ League Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 So basically 6 is quite realistic but 7 not really going to happen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I take it we won't be playing in the Champions league next season, I hope Isak is OK with that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibierski Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Start of season if you said Man Utd and Spurs would be bottom half, and us top half with 13 to go, you’d think we would be a banker for Europe. Yet here we are Miss out on Europe last season because Man City turned up to the final pissed, going to miss out this season to Forest and Bournemouth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
janpawel Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 On 08/02/2025 at 15:17, Stifler said: 5 via the league, then an English club winning the Champions League finishing outside of the top 5, so most likely Aston Villa. Then either Spurs or Man Utd winning the Europa League, safe to assume neither of them will finish in the top 5 either. Wow. I thought there was a hard cap on the CL places. Max being 5 Spurs / Man U are favourites for Europa, so 6 is a real possibility Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiotes Witch Doctor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 1 minute ago, Ben said: I take it we won't be playing in the Champions league next season, I hope Isak is OK with that. The writing is on the wall for him to leave, just got to hope we get the best deal possible which IMO should be 150 mil minimum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 4 minutes ago, Ben said: I take it we won't be playing in the Champions league next season, I hope Isak is OK with that. We need to turn this run of form around, but we're still in with more than a punchers chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
astraguy Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 we just lost to Man City and the bed wetters are out ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaj Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Next week is a big game, we can still reel Forest in and I expect our form to pick up after the cup final like it did two years ago. If we go 9 points behind them with Liverpool away next then it’s not looking great. Whatever happens in the cup final, Europe probably goes down to 7th or we are in anyway. Still think we will get Europe but today was demoralising Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 6 minutes ago, astraguy said: we just lost to Man City This is incredibly reductionist. They were level on points and goal difference with us before today and have been poor for ages. We were unacceptably pathetic. And have lost 3 of our last 4, with most of the performances in the league in 2025 quite shit. I understand if people are getting worried regarding top 4/5. If we lose to Forest I can’t see us getting top 4, can see us being adrift by the international break tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
astraguy Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 3 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said: This is incredibly reductionist. They were level on points and goal difference with us before today and have been poor for ages. We were unacceptably pathetic. And have lost 3 of our last 4, with most of the performances in the league in 2025 quite shit. I understand if people are getting worried regarding top 4/5. If we lose to Forest I can’t see us getting top 4, can see us being adrift by the international break tbh. They've just spent what £170m on some of the talent we wanted but couldn't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 5 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said: This is incredibly reductionist. They were level on points and goal difference with us before today and have been poor for ages. We were unacceptably pathetic. And have lost 3 of our last 4, with most of the performances in the league in 2025 quite shit. I understand if people are getting worried regarding top 4/5. If we lose to Forest I can’t see us getting top 4, can see us being adrift by the international break tbh. Would also mean that every other inconsistent team around us hits form as well. It's not even beyond us to not hit form until after the final and still get there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 6 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said: Whatever happens I can definitely see us having a good run here: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 3 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said: Would also mean that every other inconsistent team around us hits form as well. It's not even beyond us to not hit form until after the final and still get there. Fulham and Bournemouth are in form and have nice fixtures up to the break. If Forest beat us they’ll be 9 clear of us. I don’t know why we can’t hit form (or just not be shit) now. If it’s a mentality issue with a final on the horizon again that the squad and managing staff are unable to sort out, it’s disappointing as fuck. Then again, in January-February 2023 the league performances weren’t as bad as they have been so far in 2025. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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