Positivity

[Rory]

Good old orange dot.

[Garyth]

Champions League knock-out stages.

What heady days these are!

[lovejoy]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

[Hookeysmith]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

Was saying the same to a mate yesterday - it is easy to forget this when we are not winning every game as some expect.

[Demitri_C]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

Remarkable. I would have been happy at the start with play off  but you get top 8 is a superb achievement.  Even though we have not been great jn league CL we have been great. Its funny the two games we lost were monaco and brugges. Sure no one would have predicted that at the start.

Anything extra now is a bonus

[Smirker]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

Remarkable. I would have been happy at the start with play off  but you get top 8 is a superb achievement.  Even though we have not been great jn league CL we have been great. Its funny the two games we lost were monaco and brugges. Sure no one would have predicted that at the start.

Anything extra now is a bonus

Na, we're in it to win it. Stranger things have happened and we've got the manager to do it.

[Demitri_C]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

Remarkable. I would have been happy at the start with play off  but you get top 8 is a superb achievement.  Even though we have not been great jn league CL we have been great. Its funny the two games we lost were monaco and brugges. Sure no one would have predicted that at the start.

Anything extra now is a bonus

Na, we're in it to win it. Stranger things have happened and we've got the manager to do it.

Absolutely  but it would be a huge, massive shock if we did the biggest in years. Heres the last winners and i would say inter was probably the last team to win it thats not one of the usual suspects. Then it would be porto which was probably the most impressive in the last 10-20 years

UEFA Champions League winners list

2023-2024: Real Madrid

2022-2023: Manchester City

2021-2022: Real Madrid

2020-2021: Chelsea

2019-2020: Bayern Munich

2018-2019: Liverpool

2017-2018: Real Madrid

2016-2017: Real Madrid

2015-2016: Real Madrid

2014-2015: Barcelona

2013-2014: Real Madrid

2012-2013: Bayern Munich

2011-2012: Chelsea

2010-2011: Barcelona

2009-2010: Inter

[tomd2103]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

Remarkable. I would have been happy at the start with play off  but you get top 8 is a superb achievement.  Even though we have not been great jn league CL we have been great. Its funny the two games we lost were monaco and brugges. Sure no one would have predicted that at the start.

Anything extra now is a bonus

Na, we're in it to win it. Stranger things have happened and we've got the manager to do it.

Absolutely  but it would be a huge, massive shock if we did the biggest in years. Heres the last winners and i would say inter was probably the last team to win it thats not one of the usual suspects. Then it would be porto which was probably the most impressive in the last 10-20 years

UEFA Champions League winners list

2023-2024: Real Madrid

2022-2023: Manchester City

2021-2022: Real Madrid

2020-2021: Chelsea

2019-2020: Bayern Munich

2018-2019: Liverpool

2017-2018: Real Madrid

2016-2017: Real Madrid

2015-2016: Real Madrid

2014-2015: Barcelona

2013-2014: Real Madrid

2012-2013: Bayern Munich

2011-2012: Chelsea

2010-2011: Barcelona

2009-2010: Inter

Inspired by our efforts in the competition this season, I had a look through the history of the competition (in both it's formats) and was quite surprised to find that only 23 teams have won it.  Considering how long it's been going, that's quote an exclusive club.

[lovejoy]

That Inter side was Mourinho’s team when they were good, did the treble I think. Not a real under dog.

[cdbearsfan]

Chelsea were shit both times they won it. If our league form continues to be hit and miss, and we were still in this by, say, the quarters, I could imagine us looking to prioritise this more than league games.

[amfy]

Indeed let’s take a moment to appreciate what an achievement this is. We’ve gone from relegation fodder to top8 in champions league in 2.5 years.
These are the days moley, THESE ARE THE DAYS!

Remarkable. I would have been happy at the start with play off  but you get top 8 is a superb achievement.  Even though we have not been great jn league CL we have been great. Its funny the two games we lost were monaco and brugges. Sure no one would have predicted that at the start.

Anything extra now is a bonus

Na, we're in it to win it. Stranger things have happened and we've got the manager to do it.

Absolutely  but it would be a huge, massive shock if we did the biggest in years. Heres the last winners and i would say inter was probably the last team to win it thats not one of the usual suspects. Then it would be porto which was probably the most impressive in the last 10-20 years

UEFA Champions League winners list

2023-2024: Real Madrid

2022-2023: Manchester City

2021-2022: Real Madrid

2020-2021: Chelsea

2019-2020: Bayern Munich

2018-2019: Liverpool

2017-2018: Real Madrid

2016-2017: Real Madrid

2015-2016: Real Madrid

2014-2015: Barcelona

2013-2014: Real Madrid

2012-2013: Bayern Munich

2011-2012: Chelsea

2010-2011: Barcelona

2009-2010: Inter

The other way to think is that how did the Premier League winners look for 10 years before Leicester won it? …..& doing that over a season, rather than somehow winning 4 games which is our task is a much tougher ask.

Not saying it’s likely that we’ll win the thing, but we can definitely dream at this stage that we could pull off that massive shock.

[Demitri_C]

Absence  we can dream.  As long as we are in it you always have a chance.

Would need some results  going our way and abitbof luck of the draw. But can't see us beating liverpool if were to play them over two legs. They are a very good experienced side

[Hookeysmith]

Agree about Liverpool - hopefully we can take on Barcelona instead   

[Dave]

The other way to think is that how did the Premier League winners look for 10 years before Leicester won it? …..& doing that over a season, rather than somehow winning 4 games which is our task is a much tougher ask.

Not saying it’s likely that we’ll win the thing, but we can definitely dream at this stage that we could pull off that massive shock.

I'd also add that it's less than three years ago that Emery was taking Villarreal to the semi-finals, knocking out Juventus in the last sixteen and Bayern in the quarters.

There aren't any teams that I wouldn't fancy us giving it a good go against.

[Drummond]

We can beat anyone.