Champions League 25/26: Dortmund, PSG, Villarreal, Frankfurt, Slavia, Bodø/Glimt, Copenhagen, Monaco

[SteveAWOL]

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[glasgowspur]

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As long as we beat another English team playing in red who play crap football and are desperate to win to get the "not won a trophy in ages" off their back before sacking their manager half through the next season.

 

[SirPercyHotspur]

Not expected to be able to participate in World Cup qualifiers, and those are taking place end of March.

OK , if that's the case he is not going to make the CL squad which gets named next week , so Gallaher in plus another two but two will need to drop out if we want to register three.

 

[glorygloryeze]

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Can you imagine????

I'll only start wondering if @Bedfordspurs says he has already paid for hit hotel in Budapest...

 

[glorygloryeze]

So, who out of Club Bruges, Galatasaray, Athletico Madrid and Juventus would be the worst for us to face?

 

[Kandi1977]

So, who out of Club Bruges, Galatasaray, Athletico Madrid and Juventus would be the worst for us to face?

All of them. Atletico probably the strongest, but we got properly beat by Gala. Club Bruges are much better than people think. Proper team in the same mould as Bodø/Glimt

 

[robp135]

Next desicion is the squad for the round of 16 which is in March , we had 22 on the original A list shown below which I assume is still our numbers limit. We can register three new players , Gallaher in place of Johnson is guaranteed but which injured players do we leave out as Kudus, Bergvall and Davies are unlikely to be available until the quarters if their recovery goes to plan , might as well leave Bentancur out probably not back until May. Squad has to be named end of next week.


1 Guglielmo Vicario
2 Kevin Danso
3 Joao Palhinha
4 Xavi Simons
5 Richarlison (end of Feb)
6 Destiny Udogie
7 Archie Gray
8 Lucas Bergvall (mid Apr)
9 Cristian Romero
10 Dominic Solanke
11 Mohammed Kudus (mid Apr)
12 Brennan Johnson (transferred)
13 Pedro Porro (end of Feb)
14 Djed Spence
15 Wilson Odobert
16 Pape Matar Sarr
17 Rodrigo Bentancur (early May)
18 Antonin Kinsky
19 Ben Davies (midApr)
20 Micky van de Ven
21 Randal Kolo Muani
22 Brandon Austin

This is why Ashley Phillips & Alfie Devine should have been part of the squad this season.

Gallagher > Johnson
Tel > Davies or anyone else that leaves.

 

[DeanoAustin]

Yes, but two things

- The draw is always part of cup competitions
- Bodo and Copenhagen are two perfect examples, teams that people would say are brick and easy wins, except they both got results and made life very difficult for good teams.

Our physicality and the pace of European games will mean we typically look better in Europe vs. PL (where it doesn't stand out). The barometer is probably somewhere in the middle of the two standings

Yeah the draw is part of it but it's always referred to as "luck of the draw" and, without wishing to diminish what we've achieved, we got somewhat lucky. I've seen people say we finished above Barca, Madrid and PSG. While we did, it's not really a good indicator of anything because this wasn't a league in the meaningful sense of the word - we played 8 games, we didn't play everyone twice.

Look, I'm delighted with our campaign overall. I thoroughly enjoyed watching us the other night and I believe we were excellent v Dortmund too (missed it as I was away). However, we need to start seeing performances like that in the league or else we'll end up in a relegation fight and get dumped out of Europe when we play one of the big boys.

 

[johnola]

Yes that works. Sounds good now!

proper dingdong Van Dyke vibes

 

[johnola]

So, who out of Club Bruges, Galatasaray, Athletico Madrid and Juventus would be the worst for us to face?

the one who wins through the rounds?

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

So nice to see that C Conte completely and utterly fail in Europe

 

[billyiddo]

All of them. Atletico probably the strongest, but we got properly beat by Gala. Club Bruges are much better than people think. Proper team in the same mould as Bodø/Glimt

We played our reserves v Gala tbf

 

[Kandi1977]

We played our reserves v Gala tbf

And we're really stacked with quality players avaliable now.....