Will we qualify for the CL?

[cdbearsfan]

Cant wait to see back end of 2024. Barring champions league games the league form for 2024 has generally  been shit.

Bring on 2025!

I thought we were the 6th best side in 2024 points wise?

Contextually, over a season, wouldn't that equal our best PL finishes in decades, last season aside?

Yep, here you go.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/premier-league/jahrestabelle/wettbewerb/GB1

Last sixth placed finish before last season was 2009/10.

[aj2k77]

No chance really of Champions League this season with the defence as calamitous as it is. Only West Ham, Brentford and the bottom 4 have conceded more.

[eamonn]

Another crack at the Conference League shouldn't be sniffed at. 

It will be sniffed at by our best players who now want to play Champions League football every season. I'd settle for the Europa League and the FA Cup this year but the Europa Conference feels redundant now. Chelsea beat everyone in sight even with their second team.

[Le Lapin]

We keeping gifting goals and missing chances at the other end. If we keep this up and we are finishing mid table. No top team can give away goals like we do, no top team surrenders leads like we do. Not good enough at all. Hopefully we can sort this out and go on some sort of run to bring us into the Champs League places, but on the showing of last night this is hard to see happening. All this calender year we have been consistently inconsistent. Here's to a brilliant 2025!

[Demitri_C]

Another crack at the Conference League shouldn't be sniffed at. 

It will be sniffed at by our best players who now want to play Champions League football every season. I'd settle for the Europa League and the FA Cup this year but the Europa Conference feels redundant now. Chelsea beat everyone in sight even with their second team.

The quality of the sides looks far less than last season.

I wouldnt care of we went for conference.  We can just play a B team give them more minutes so rwafy for league. Works well for chelsea so i would be ok with this

[ChicagoLion]

The big problem with not qualifying which is very likely, is that it will make it very difficult to retain our best players. Then try qualifying without Kamara Rogers Duran Martinez.

[Demitri_C]

The big problem with not qualifying which is very likely, is that it will make it very difficult to retain our best players. Then try qualifying without Kamara Rogers Duran Martinez.

Said this in summer. Maatsen even said getting CL was one of the main reasons he joined us

[cdbearsfan]

Just win it, this season, Qualifying by league position is the more boring route to qualify, anyway.

[Goldenballs]

https://x.com/premierleague/status/1874123597175804161?t=sdkqcRFlWTqeE7hQJ7TCxA&s=19

2024 table if it hasn't already been posted.

[Demitri_C]

https://x.com/premierleague/status/1874123597175804161?t=sdkqcRFlWTqeE7hQJ7TCxA&s=19

2024 table if it hasn't already been posted.

That teally suprises me as i thought we were alot worse. Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting

[Drummond]

Yes we will but that table doesn't make for good reading really. We're a very long way off the top.

[Rigadon]

I think a lot depends on whether we can sign 2 or 3 players in the next couple of weeks.  If we can’t, then I think 6th or 7th might be as good as we can do.  The team needs another high quality right sided defender, cover for mings and another right winger. 

[ChicagoLion]

I think a lot depends on whether we can sign 2 or 3 players in the next couple of weeks.  If we can’t, then I think 6th or 7th might be as good as we can do.  The team needs another high quality right sided defender, cover for mings and another right winger.

Which is easier said than done.

[Rigadon]

Indeed.  They’ve known about the right side for months though, so hopefully there is a plan for that.  Cover for Mings could be really tough unless they’ve made up their mind he’s surplus.

[ChicagoLion]

Indeed.  They’ve known about the right side for months though, so hopefully there is a plan for that.  Cover for Mings could be really tough unless they’ve made up their mind he’s surplus.

Hope you are right about a RB. But they have had years to sort it out.
I think Carlos will cover Left CB but that still leaves us short defensively.