I won’t be doing a pre-match blog-posting ahead of our Champions League match away at PSG. Next up for me will be ahead of our home-league game against Chelsea on Saturday 25th January, 5:30pm KO (GMT).
Interested?
Like many-a-City-fan over the seasons who were far hungrier for domestic league success and, perhaps even, F.A. Cup glory over Champions League triumph; I too took a while to warm to the competition until we’d amassed a good haul of domestic silverware. Once we had, I started to invest far more interest in the European competition…and then we won it having come close on a number of occasions.
However, this season I’ve gone right back to, “Meh” 🤷♂️…whatever. This time, though, it’s for very different reasons and that, strangely, is linked to our domestic form so far this season.
Realistically, the only chance we have of gaining any silverware in 2024/25 is in the F.A. Cup plus, for me and I’m sure every other Manchester City fan, our main goal HAS to be a top-4-league-place finish. Therefore, if that top-4 place can only be secured by exiting the Champions League so that we don’t have our seemingly-fragile squad of players stretched and decimated once more, then so be it I say. 👍
I think we can all agree that we’ve just started, what looks to me like, a fairly hefty squad rebuild and with Pep staying for another two seasons at least after this; there’s time yet to refocus on a European competition…and, of course, we can only focus on that if we finish high enough in the Prem.
As I say, next up for me is a far more important fixture and that’s a league match on our own patch against the Pensioners.
Thank you, as always, for taking the time to read my ramblings.
The best option is to win the champions league, so qualifying automatically.
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That's a very good point too but I think it's beyond this squad this season. Thank you so much for your comment and for reading.
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