[quote=emperor rafa]in the real world how can you go from runners up to no chance of winning it.your silly
Because there is such a big diffrence in clubs between the one that finished first and the one that finished second unfortunately, bit like someone like Aberdeen trying to overtake Celtic or Rangers, second is great but lets face it we wont go higher than that this coming season and Chelsea wont be as poor as last season as well.
Am just taking a few things into consideration when I look at how well we may or may not do next season. As people quite rightly pointed out we were unbeaten against the other top three teams last season which was fantastic, unfortunately I really cant see that happening again this season, We only lost two games last season in the league which again was great but in all fairness I cant see us improving on that or even equaling it this coming season.
Looking at our own performances last season, I thought in the remaining two and a half months of the season we were fantastic, the best team in the country at the time but unfortunately the league is over 9 months not 3 and for the other 6 months we were dreadful. we scored injury time goals in about 9 games which got us very lucky victories against some absolute dross of teams and we were so rightly booed off on sevral occasions because we were so bad.
For me Xabi Alonso has gone, he alongside Torres, Reina and Gerrard our our best 4 players, Alonso is not our best player but is our most important and I feel he will be more of a loss to us than what Ronaldo will be for United, United have other very good players whereas we dont apart from the other three I mentioned.
I think all this talk about United being worse because of Ronaldo is nonesense I feel United will be alot stronger and more of a team without the petulent school boy antics of the sulk, I also reckon you will see a different and far better Rooney this season now that he will be played in his more favoured position, also think Berbatov wont be as bad this season than last and Owen will net a few goals from off the bench, Valencia will also be a threat but not on the same level as Ronaldo.