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Is this the make or break season for BR? With the money that's being spent I don't think he'll have any excuses. Of course there are teams with bigger budgets for wages & transfers, but we'll need to be comfortably challenging the top 4 all the way else BRs position could become vulnerable I suspect.

Personally, I think we stumbled across the success we achieved last season. Our approach was very different to the style BR oiginally seemed to have in mind. It was also propelled by the simultaneous success of Sturride, Suarez, Sterling & Coutinho. I don't think BR planned or expected this.

The defence is also a huge concern an hasn't been addressed for a long time.

Br just needs to finish in the top 4 again and get into the ko stages of the cl...

And it will be a successful season

Last season everyone said it was time for him to step up and prove himself. The fans were impatient, Suarez wanted out, and Champions league qualification looked all but impossible. He did more than just get fourth, he put us in a fight for the title that went to the end of the season.

He's earned our trust and our patience.

True but Rodgers is under particular pressure as expectations have been lifted perhaps beyond the underlying talent of the team. But I could be wrong I hope so.

That's true

Why should he be under particularly more pressure than other manager.
He has been and will continue to be a great manager for this club for years to come. Rogers is the best thing to happen to this club in years

He is in a great position but I feel he is under pressure more than other managers because of expectations we finished second last year and almost win the league. Where next from that ?

That's where the pressure is coming from

something that might work in our favour. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footbal...ter-United.html


Chelsea to feature on live television less than their title rivals Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City and Louis van Gaal's Manchester United

Chelsea will be televised seven times up to end of November
Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool have 10 live games
Arsenal to feature on Sky Sports and BT Sport nine times
Chelsea's fixtures after Champions League games include Manchester City (a), Arsenal (h), Manchester United (a) and Liverpool (a)
Manchester City face away fixtures after five of their six European games
By Sunni Upal Follow @@RSUpal
Published: 09:50 GMT, 15 July 2014 | Updated: 09:50 GMT, 15 July 2014

Jose Mourinho's Chelsea side will only feature on live television games seven times until the end of November, less than all of their Premier League title rivals, including Louis van Gaal's Manchester United.

The Blues will also begin their campaign with an away fixture at Burnley on Monday night, while Van Gaal's United side play the opening game of the Premier League season at home against Swansea on Saturday lunchtime.

Van Gaal's United are scheduled to play 10 of their first 13 games on television, the same as both Liverpool and Manchester City.
Arsenal, meanwhile, who finished below Chelsea last season in fourth place, will feature on television nine times up to the end of November.
Draw: Only seven of Chelsea's first 13 Premier League fixtures will be televised live
Step aside, Jose: Louis van Gaal's Manchester United will feature 10 times until the end of November


TELEVISED GAMES BY CLUB
10 - Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd
9 - Arsenal
7 - Chelsea
6 - Aston Villa, Everton, QPR, Tottenham
5 - Newcastle
4 - Burnley, Stoke, Swansea, West Brom, West Ham
3 - Crystal Palace, Hull, Leicester, Southampton, Sunderland
.By the time Chelsea kick-off their Premier League title campaign at Turf Moor on Monday, August 18, Manchester United and Arsenal will both have played on Saturday, August 16 while Liverpool and Manchester City will feature on Sky's Super Sunday double bill.

But despite Chelsea having fewer televised games than their rivals, they will face some tricky matches the weekend after Champions League contests.

After each of their first four Champions League group games, Chelsea will face Manchester City at the Etihad, Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, Manchester United at Old Trafford and Liverpool at Anfield.

Four of Chelsea's six fixtures after Champions League group-stage action will be away from home, while Manchester City face five away days after their six European clashes.
Liverpool and Arsenal, on the other hand, will be at home four times out of six following a Champions League group game.
That is providing Arsenal make it through their play-off tie at the end of August.
Box office: Champions Manchester City, like their neighbours, have 10 live televised fixtures

Loosening up: Liverpool will play the first of their 10 live televised games on the opening weekend of the season
Capital gains: Arsenal have nine live games, the most for a Premier League team in London



Champions League group stage dates
Matchday 1: 16–17 September 2014
Matchday 2: 30 September–1 October 2014
Matchday 3: 21–22 October 2014
Matchday 4: 4–5 November 2014
Matchday 5: 25–26 November 2014
Matchday 6: 9–10 December 2014

.Every team will feature at least three times on television before the end of November. The teams with three live games each are Crystal Palace, Hull, Leicester, Southampton and Sunderland.
Newly promoted Burnley, Stoke Swansea, West Brom and West Ham will all be on TV four times, while Newcastle are the only team with five live games.

Roberto Martinez's Everton, Aston Villa, Tottenham and newly promoted QPR all have six live games each.

Arsenal after Champions League
(a) Aston Villa - Sat 20 Sept, 3pm
(h) Chelsea - Sun 5 Oct, 2.05pm
(h) Sunderland - Sat 25 Oct, 3pm
(a) Swansea - Sun 9 Nov, 4pm
(h) West Brom - Sat 29 Nov, 12.45pm
(h) Newcastle - Sat 13 Dec, 3pm*
*Date/time subject to change when next set of televised fixtures are announced*

.Chelsea after Champions League
(a) Manchester City - Sun, 21 Sept, 4pm
(h) Arsenal - Sun 5 Oct, 2.05pm
(a) Manchester United - Sun 26 Oct, 4pm
(a) Liverpool - Sat 8 Nov, 12.45pm
(a) Sunderland - Sat 29 Nov, 5.30pm
(h) Hull - Sat 13 Dec, 3pm*
*Date/time subject to change when next set of televised fixtures are announced*

.Liverpool after Champions League
(a) West Ham - Sat 20 Sept, 5.30pm
(h) West Brom - Sat 4 Oct, 3pm
(h) Hull - Sat 25 Oct, 3pm
(h) Chelsea - Sat 8 Nov, 12.45pm
(h) Stoke - Sat 29 Nov, 3pm
(a) Manchester United - Sat 13 Dec, 3pm*
*Date/time subject to change when next set of televised fixtures are announced*

.Man City after Champions League
(h) Chelsea - Sun 21 Sept, 4pm
(a) Aston Villa - Sat 4 Oct, 5.30pm
(a) West Ham - Sat 25 Oct, 12.45pm
(a) QPR - Sat 8 Nov, 5.30pm
(a) Southampton - Sun 30 Nov, 1.30pm
(a) Leicester - Sat13 Dec, 3pm*
*Date/time subject to change when next set of televised fixtures are announced*
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Spot on. There are no free seasons for any manager any more.

The biggest pressure will be on his transfer dealings, he's failed miserably with nearly all of his transfers since the sturridge and cout window, and thus quite rightly will be under the microscope, we will see what he does with all this money but I'm terrified of kenny mk II based on who we have signed thus far.

Agreed, signings will be the pressure point considering several haven't paid off.

Also agree that top 4 would be a success & get out of the CL groups.

I keep forgetting we qualified outright for the CL, great acheivement and shouldn't be expected to better this year.

Utd's spending and chelsea/arsenal's improved teams so far worry me so I don't think there's too much pressure either way, as long as the new signings don't fall completely flat.