So our teen tear-away is predicting big things for next season but what do you think, is top four realistic, should we be aiming even higher or just to consolidate the positives from this season? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22663019
We will be in the top 4. We must be in the top 4. We should be in the top 4. We definitely can be in the top 4 We possibly can be in the top 4. Only very few teams has the courage (or arrogance?) to say the first sentence. Shouldn't he be saying the 2nd or 3rd if he is so optimistic and confident? Mind you these have implications for failure and sackings will come to mind. Any of the top 10 team should be able to say: "we can be in top 4 next season" even for some it may just be a less than 10% chance.
Wish the whole of our team and staff would just say nothing. I'd settle for 5th next season with the points gap massively reduced.
Players always speak out and are usually over confident too. Gerrard did it at the start of the 2008-09 season, he has since said he learnt a very valuable lesson from speaking out and has not done it since. Carragher was similar. Best to keep quiet and let the football do the talking, some youngsters can be taught but others need to learn the hard way. I'm sure one or two of the senior players or coaching staff will pull him to one side and point out that he now needs to back up his words.
The press officers at the club probably tell them what to say. Brendan and the management will want an air of positivity to help them convince new signings.
agree Belfast Red, not going to convince potential players to come if we are negative, i know its over confidence, but its good to see that we are still aiming high, even if it doesn't happen. better to be a dreamer than a pessimist lol
Asking the youngest member of the first team, who's suffered in form from December and then been injured, to speak out isn't going to convince many people... They probably had a car-door intervier in the morning as he was leaving his current girlfriend's house; moments after creating his 11th child and making a mother of the 8th girl.
one way of looking at it i suppose, confidence breeds confidence in the same way negativity works. it can be looked on as a good sign if the youngest member of the team is confident, it may convince other youngsters ie Eriksen etc we are at least thinking in the right direction.
From experience, every single time this season someone has come out and said that we were improving, or we were playing well, going to make top 4, top 2 is a possibiliy, etc - we've screwed up and failed. I want our whole team and staff to just shut up and play. Show what we can do instead of spouting useless crap. If players were tempted to join clubs who sounded confident based on what was said in the media, they'd all be flocking to 'Arry's QPR or Whelan's Wigan!
get your point, but i am in the camp that it is better to try and be positive than too cautious or negative, depending on how you view it, us fans are just as guilty of it. if you was a player, you would rather join a team that has ambitions, even high ones, or some might call it deluded, mention no names , than a team that turns round and says words to the effect of "well we might be good enough for top 4 but not sure", that to me isn't going to convince many to join us, even if some think that's the case. we have a good atmos around the ground, we need to keep that some how, even if it means players saying "we will do better" or "we can do better" than some people think is going to happen. nothing wrong with being a dreamer lol, i was brought up on the good times, they will return
We should aim to win everything. Regardless of how deluded that may sound, I will start the season hoping we can sweep the board.
