2023-24 Season - Your Thoughts

[Tombstone]

So , now that the season is done , looking ahead to next season, how do you think your team will do next season?

Note , not how you hope they will do but how you honestly think they will actually do, which is invariably never what we hope

Are you expecting top 4 finish? Relegation? Midtable? A cup final or even a cup win? Are you expecting the rigours of European football to decimate your league position or are you expecting to wage a successful campaign on all fronts? What would you deem to be a successful 23/24 season and what would constitute a failure of a 23/24 season?

 

[Tombstone]

I think Tombstone was looking for predictions for next season, not reviews of the season just gone guys.

Nail on the head there

Essentially trying to ascertain whether people are feeling good about the coming season or wary about the coming season and what they truly think will happen with their team next season.

Particularly interested in teams that are going to be having a different situation next year and what they think it will mean, for example, will Liverpool return as a force, will European football drop the likes of Newcastle and Brighton down to midtable positions in the league or will they cope fine, will the Evertons and Forests of the league be embroiled in relegation again or will they kick on now. Will the newly promoted teams (if we have any of their supporters on here) be rooted to the bottom or be surprise packages, will Spurs and Chelsea drop further behind the pack or will they recover.

 

[Tombstone]

I guess everyone took "your thoughts" is on something that HAPPENED in the past, rather than "your PREDICTION" on something that is going to happen in the future, which is the better, more appropriate, more fitting word to use.

What's your thought on the Marvel movie coming out next summer? for example.

Thats the difference between only reading the title and reading the content of the post

 

[Tombstone]

I think what we can all take from this is, always read the post of what you are replying to. It does mean it takes a little more time to see what the post is actually about of course but theres no rush, thankfully the forums dont time us out while we're reading

Anyway, back to the replies before the thread gets lost amongst word structure and grammar !

 

[Tombstone]

I think predicting next season is pretty tricky for most clubs at the moment. City will obviously be strong, but Liverpool, Arsenal, Man Utd, Newcastle and even Chelsea will all depend heavily on how their summer business goes, and that largely remains to be seen. They're all teams which are midway through projects of some sort, and which of those teams continues those projects best in the summer will dictate to a large extent which ones have a good next season.

As a Liverpool fan I'm cautiously optimistic. We finished the season really strongly, our players look confident again, Salah is still a machine, we're offloading a fair bit of deadwood, and we've already done good business in Macallister, so I'd expect top 4.

That said, we still need signings, and teams will work out how to address our new system over the course of the first half of next season, so the question is how it will hold up to those challenges. Also, if Arsenal, Newcastle, and United all have better summers than us then we may well miss out on top 4 again.

Basically, I've no idea how next season will look...

I certainly think the fight for top 4 is going to be remarkable next season, realistically there could well be 7 or 8 teams who are all in with a good shout of top 4. I'd say its been a long time since we've had that many fighting for top 4. The battle for 4th should be quite the contest.

 

[Tombstone]

Hard to know at this point, depends on signings I think as we’re pretty bare defensively.

I think we’ll push far in Europa, but suffer in the league because of it. Summer signings may provide the depth required, we’re quite top heavy.

All I know, if it’s anything as good as last season I’ll be delighted. It’s a good time to be a seagull.

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Are you concerned about how the team will perform once Mac Allister and Caicedo are gone or do you have faith that the money from those will be invested well and keep the team ticking along