End of Season 19/20 Review

[ThaiSweetChilli]

I reckon rather than a post match thread that this is better.

We did well to finish 5th over a whole season but it was a tale of two halves. Major downturn in form and when CL seemed all but guranteed we had a meltdown. Not enough from the players or the manager imo.

Momentum is everything for me. I hope we can have a top summer and stop the rut. Bring in some quality. We massively need a top skilful attacker who brings fear to the opposition lik Mahrez.

Shining light of this season for me is the development of Soyuncu. I think he is a top top defender and we'll be lucky to hold on to him to much longer.

 

[fitz]

Can we make it season 2019-2019 to cheer us all up?

 

[City Fan]

Little old Leicester managed to finish 5th. Let’s forget the complete and utter bottle job.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

Little old Leicester managed to finish 5th. Let’s forget the complete and utter blow job.

That's a tad inappropriate

 

[Miles Away]

We shit our pants

 

[SJN-Fox]

We finished 5th, our highest Premier League finish (apart from THAT season).
We qualified for Europe.
Vardy won the golden boot.
We scored more away goals in one game than Derby managed throughout their entire season in the PL.

What a ****ing awful season.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

We shit our pants

My brother always said Rodgers was a bottler. When he bottled the end of that season with Liverpool, his following they were shit and he got sacked. Similarly to Claudio, doesn't seem to be able to stop a slide very well.

I couldn't fathom how Liverpool didn't win the league that year. I can now.

 

[City Fan]

We finished 5th, our highest Premier League finish (apart from THAT season).
We qualified for Europe.
Vardy won the golden boot.
We scored more away goals in one game than Derby managed throughout their entire season in the PL.

What a ****ing awful season.

You’d get on well with Brendan with a loser mentality like that.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

Ricardo was a huge loss imo. I hope he recovers well and quickly. I think he'd do great further up the pitch

 

[Micky]

Little old Leicester managed to finish 5th. Let’s forget the complete and utter bottle job.

Yes we did. And so have many teams before us. It's almost like you think we meant to do it.
Now calm down and enjoy the break.

 

[Micky]

Ricardo was a huge loss imo. I hope he recovers well and quickly. I think he'd do great further up the pitch

For me, he is our best player.

 

[homer]

The Gutless clueless coward presided over an absolute ****ing shower from Christmas onwards

Always, always will this be remembered for the hopeless , clueless cowardly way that we pissed away a massive fifteen point lead to finish four points behind the ****ers.

Chelsea FFS - absolute shit and ****ing finished third !

****ing hell, what a wasted six months of shit


It’s the Peter Taylor season all over again - next season could be a ****ing nightmare

 

[fitz]

Just remembering Pardew got Newcastle to 5th. Top manager. Give Ted an 8 year contract now.!

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

One thing I've noticed is that over the last few years different managers have tried but all failed to implement a possession based approach.

It seems that we keep possession but can't take advantage of it and score goals. Ranieri changed it up in his 2nd season, Puel did and Rodgers too. But we end up having so much possession and little else. Is it that our players just aren't good enough to play like this?

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

Also meanwhile in Watford....

 

[City Fan]

Is it that our players just aren't good enough to play like this?

They were good enough to play like it during the first half of the season. You know, when we were 15 points clear of 5th.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

All I can say is let's spend some ****ing money and show our ambition to improve... We've may not have got in the Champions League but we at least took Man U's Champions League money in exchange for a duffer at the back.

 

[Brown Nose]

Just remembering Pardew got Newcastle to 5th. Top manager. Give Ted an 8 year contract now.!

We gave him an £8m a year contract instead.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

I know that we collapsed and crumbled. However we do have far less money, far less pull than the 4 teams who finished above us and that does make a difference to the quality of our overall squad. Imagine if we had better options on the bench.

Post match, BR was disappointed but also determined to make some good signings next season. We're not big enough to have good quality backups, content being back ups. But we also need to have better bench players than we do. It's a weird situation.

Either way, 5th place, silver lining.

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

Also, another stellar season for N'Ddidi.

https://www.goal.com/en/news/leices...kler-accolade-with/15j9pm4up51bm1btgk2mfxk23h

This is the third season in a row that he's finished top tackler and that's the first time in Premier League history that a player has done this thrice in a row. Retaining him should be one of our most important priorities this season.

In terms of tackles per minute on the pitch, he's clearly first. Ricardo finished third despite missing the last 8 matches.