devaney » Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:04 am wrote:Yakka do you really think that little of our squad that you think we should concentrate all our efforts on the league and almost dismiss the CL. If we can't cope with 2 competitions then we really do have problems.
Over the last 2 years our league form has suffered during the run in due to us reaching the CL and EL finals, both times we have scraped over the line to get 4th on a nervy last day, in fact 2 years ago it looked like we'd blown it.
Competing in Europe whilst trying to scrape into the top 4 wiped us out physically and mentally, we were out on our feet in both finals.
Trying to stay with City and trying to win our first league title in 30 years is going to be far, far more draining than trying to scrape into 4th, also you go on about our squad, how deep is it really? Look at our bench, the likes of Lallana and Sturridge are pretty much done as top players, would you trust them to get us a result in a big league game or a CL semi final if Jurgen was forced to rotate?
As I said over the last 30 years genuine title challenges have been rare, I don't think we should waste this opportunity by spreading ourselves too thin and ending up with nothing. Let's be realistic, it is very, very difficult for an English team to win the CL and title in the same year, United are the only club to have done it and that was years ago. Chelsea couldn't do it when Abramovitch was pouring money into them and City haven't done it despite being uber wealthy for a decade.