Premier League 2018/19: The Fight for a CL Spot

[Let's play Aubamawang]

It's time to put all of our eggs into the Europa League basket if we want CL football. At this point, we should blood some of our talented youngsters in the league. It's not like they can do worse than some of our senior players.

 

[Artisan]

What promising youngsters do we even have? The only one we've got is out on loan being benched in Germany. The rest are either not ready and probably won't be good enough for us anyway.

 

[Maybe]

What promising youngsters do we even have? The only one we've got is out on loan being benched in Germany. The rest are either not ready and probably won't be good enough for us anyway.

The quality bar is pretty low today so maybe some of them can make it here, but if not, we can hire someone like @Beksl to get 30-40m for them and reinvest the money.

 

[<<reed>>]

the EL is our only chance to get CL football, I've been saying it since September.

 

[Notorious Big]

the EL is our only chance to get CL football, I've been saying it since September.

Won't be easy to win it.At least,Emery knows how to do that.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

It certainly does look our best chance at the moment. Just have to hope Emery's experience in it pays off.

 

[Notorious Big]

Chelsea,Napoli,Sevilla and few other teams look like threat.

 

[Beksl]

The quality bar is pretty low today so maybe some of them can make it here, but if not, we can hire someone like @Beksl to get 30-40m for them and reinvest the money.

Doing my PhD on a ''Solanke model'' of transfer negotiations and extraction of transfer fees as we speak.

 

[Let's play Aubamawang]

What promising youngsters do we even have? The only one we've got is out on loan being benched in Germany. The rest are either not ready and probably won't be good enough for us anyway.

Emile Smith Rowe, Joe Willock both seem to be doing well. I've also heard good things about Zech Medley, and tbh we must have at least one young cb that is better than Mustafi.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Are we at the stage we give up on top4 and focus mainly on EL?

 

[krengon]

Are we at the stage we give up on top4 and focus mainly on EL?

If we lose to Chelsea then yes, otherwise there's still hope(for a bit longer at least).

 

[Dennis_Bergkamp_10]

Just realised we could potentially be 11 points ahead of United had we beaten their **** team a few games back.

What a meltdown it's gonna be when they pass us at fifth after our annual City thrashing

Let's win the EL.

 

[A_G]

With injuries piling up, Sp**s could get dragged into the race for 4th. Losing Kane and Son at the same time is a big blow.

This next Chelsea might be the biggest league match in years tbh.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Feels like we’re missing most of the pieces to the puzzle

Left back that’s top level
CB next to Sokratis
CM next to Torreira
Winger of top quality
Sub that’s top quality in midfield or attack

Feels like we need to buy all of them to challenge for top 4 realistically
That’s £250m

And that's been our ongoing issue. We need to buy all these in one window, two maximum. We've been trying to do it at a rate of one player every summer.

 

[Mo Britain]

In a very few weeks we've gone from having a decent chance of 4th to unlikely contenders. If we lose to Chelsea next week we'll be down to 6th and nine points off the CL places.

That will be curtains for the season, we have only the Europa League and FA Cup to play for and the positive spirit of the autumn seems to have largely dissipated.

 

[butcher22]

Tbh we would be absolutely embarrassed in the champions league with this squad

 

[asukru]

I still think top 4 is manageable if things fall our way but I wouldn't hold my breathe to say the least. We need to ensure we beat Chelsea and that they have a horrible run of form. It's still too early to judge but I think we just need to take it one match at a time and see where the other top 4 contenders fall. Luckily, Sp**s have some injuries which could drag them down but we do need to be wary of United as well as they are starting to click and will fight to overtake us. Fingers crossed we put up a good fight until the end and if we manage to F it up, let's hope we can lift the EL and find our way into the CL.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

It's very tough I think, thank god for the Europa League. Next week is a must win if we're gonna finish top 4 through the league but our performances in recent times make that unlikely (as unimpressed as I am with Chelsea). Hopefully the lads can lift themselves and produce a big game performance like in the NLD and like vs Liverpool at home.

 

[Jasard]

It's very tough I think, thank god for the Europa League. Next week is a must win if we're gonna finish top 4 through the league but our performances in recent times make that unlikely (as unimpressed as I am with Chelsea). Hopefully the lads can lift themselves and produce a big game performance like in the NLD and like vs Liverpool at home.

Thing is I can see us beating Chelsea but it wont matter because we know for certain that we will drop stupid points elsewhere because this team cant get it up, at embarrising times.

 

[say yes]

Weighted League Table - GW22

Spoiler: Explanation

If you've not seen one of these before, it essentially weights results against the quality of teams faced. It will be exactly the same as the league table at the end of the season (when everyone has played every team twice), but until then it shows you roughly how well each club is doing given the fixtures played.

A 'champion' is expected to get 89 points: 3/6 points from your rivals; 4/6 from the middling teams; 6/6 from the weaker teams. Doing so would give you 89 points.

2018/2019 rankings:

Spoiler: Big 6

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Sp**s

Spoiler: Middle Pack

Newcastle, Watford, Brighton, Leicester, Everton

Spoiler: Explanation

Newcastle (28 home points, 10 from Big 6)
Watford (27 home points, 8 from Big 6)
Brighton (29 home points, 7 from Big 6)
Leicester (27 home points, 7 from Big 6)
Everton (34 home points, 2 from Big 6)

Spoiler: Fodder

Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Burnley, Watford, Southampton, Huddersfield, Wolves, Fulham, Cardiff

Spoiler: 17/18 season final results

Liverpool: +9
City: +5
Sp**s: -2
United: -7
Chelsea: -10
Arsenal: -12