Feels like winning the Quadruple as a PL team is impossible with the number of games today.
The big double (PL + CL) is the dream for me. And tbh it looks like the squad will be strong enough for that after the summer.
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Always felt impossible, if I’m being honest. As Arne said, there really are no easy games in the Premier League. 2021-22 was the absolute dream, but even back then I was completely awed at how we (at times during the season) were about to achieve the impossible. It’ll always go down as such an immense shame for me, but to even get so close, that was incredible. No English team has ever come anywhere as close to that.
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I’ll wait for September 1st to judge that.
The signs are good, but I’m also waiting for pre-season friendlies, etc. That will give us much more answers than now trying to imagine our first XI after a few signings.
It’s not just about adding players, but making it work altogether with sense.
Top 2. Top 4 won’t be a disaster though, but disappointing. I don’t see us as below Top 4, but of course a bad season can happen.
But I think next season will be harder than this one.
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Top six and an outside chance at the League Cup. But that’s enough about Arsenal!
My expectation is we will put in a strong challenge for the Premier League title and also the Champions League. I expect the Prem to be more closely contested next time, as we just won it at a canter with margin to spare. I also expect us to go deeper in the CL, but to maybe take our foot off the accelerator just a bit in the league stage, having learned that you don’t really get the favorable draw you should get for finishing first at that point.
I cannot say that I expect to win both big prizes, as that feels a bit entitled. I hope we do, and that’s the dream, but there are other good teams who have their own ambitions, and they will strengthen too. That said, I fear no-one and we should be in the mix for the biggest prizes.
- Get all of our incoming transfer completed prior to preseason starting to give as many players as possible the time to work with Slot and the rest of the squad to build cohession and understanding.
- Win the League
- Win the Champions League
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My expectations are to continue fighting for trophies - top 3 finish in PL and quarter-finals of CL should be the minimum for the next season. Rival clubs will be much stronger and Man City have already spent a small fortune in January and will follow it up with another transfer splurge.
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Build on last season’s progress. Hopefully, retain the title and add another trophy.
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Wanted to make this a longer post but fuck it.
After winning the league without a new signing in his first season Slot would look really stupid if he can’t deliver PL or CL in 2026 with the new signings we made.
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Afer the summer we’ve had, if we don’t win the PL, the CL, the Masters, the America’s Cup and the Dakar Rally, I’m calling failure.
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At the start of the 86-87 season Saint and Greavsie did their usual of making their picks for the season. We’d just won the double in Kenny’s first season and so Greavsie picked us to win everything including the grand national, the boat race and Eurovision. It was a classic S&G moment. Like the time Greavsie joked about not understanding the boat race because they dip their cox into the water once they’ve finished.
We won nothing that year and even lost Rushie’s famous “we dont lose when Rush scores” record in the league cup final loss to Arsenal
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I’m expecting some piece will come out after the window shuts about how the club won’t allow outside noise to affect us, and that the club won’t see the season as a failure if we don’t win the Champions League or retain the Premier League, because we’re taking a long-term approach to our squad planning. I agree with it, but it’ll just serve as a reminder for the social media junkies wanting constant dopamine hits that finishing without a major trophy won’t suddenly trigger a crisis.
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Don’t know why this transfer window would mean we should be winning the league.
We saw and possibly laughed at numerous project failures after similarly big (hard to compare, player quality/reputation and money spent isn’t always aligned) summer transfer windows.
The noise outside we cannot control and us fans can say anything we like because we’re not part of it, we can say stupid stuff and stay alive.
We are a high quality side and one of the favourites, possibly the slight favourites to win it again. It’s because of the whole package, even if it’s true that our team balance isn’t where it should be.
We’ll see what we evolve into in the next weeks and months. There is work to be done in a few phases of the game and in a few individual cases/positions.
It’s still a really hard league to win and I’m not of the opinion that our transfer window activity takes us from one of the favourites or slight favourites to clear favourites or failure if we don’t do it.
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Expectations were already high, but will now go through the roof.
For our own sanity, I hope that the LFC fanbase will keep its feet firmly on the ground throughout the noise. It will take time to make a team out of all these new players. The depth in individual quality is exceptional on paper, but we all know that it needs much more than that to get a team of champions.
Also, depending on the outgoings, I’ve still slight worries about the right balance within this new squad.
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I’m expecting to score one gajillion goals this season.
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Obviously you want to win the Prem, and hopefully the CL, but you can’t expect it or demand it. You can expect to be in the running, until late on, and we should be, but there are some other sides who are well equipped with similar realistic expectations.
Failure would be finishing off the pace in the Prem so we don’t really have a shot at the title moving into the last 6 games. Failure would be not getting to the late stages of the CL, although I do accept that is a bit dependent on the luck of the draw and performing on the night.
whats even more amazing is that 1986 is 41 years after WW2 finished and yet 39 years from today…
cop that…
some of those type of summaries are amazing…particularily like the one that James Milners career is now longer than the time between end of WW1 and start of WW2…
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Wouldn’t 1985 have made more sense?
yes but he referenced 86…so blame him if my point missed a little…
…cue the McNulty GIF
I was 100% going to post the McNulty gif
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