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What I would like to happen and what I hope for:

- Top 3 finish in the league

- Champions League semi-finals

- FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup

What I think will happen:

- Top 4 finish in the league

- Champions League quarter-finals

- Community Shield

I'm not optimistic at all about this season tbh.

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The biggest priority whilst our new team overhaul is being established and learning to play with each other is to ensure we get top 4... Without it we will face what would have happened this year in unable to sign high profile players and less money etc, and once you are out of it it is even harder to get back in... So unless we were to win the champions league (again :dance: ), If we don't get top 4 then the season will be extremely bad no matter how many other cups we win... Though i am feeling optimistic that we can be in a very good top 4 position by march next year and have a good run at the fa cup and champions league...

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Fifa Club World Cup >> FA Cup

One is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be crowned world champions, the other is a trophy available every season. I'm not too bothered about the UEFA Super Cup, as it's essentially just a european community shield. The fact we are allowing Courtois to play against us in that, goes to show how little the club cares about it.

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Fifa Club World Cup >> FA Cup

One is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be crowned world champions, the other is a trophy available every season. I'm not too bothered about the UEFA Super Cup, as it's essentially just a european community shield. The fact we are allowing Courtois to play against us in that, goes to show how little the club cares about it.

I thought we are not allowing Courtois to play against us.

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Win all 7 competition by playing sexy football. :Goober:

Seriously speaking, I would be happy with winning the Uefa Super Cup, Club World Cup and maybe one out of the FA Cup and League Cup. Also a comfortable top 3 finish in the league is a must. Don't really know what to expect from the Champions League, obviously reaching the knockout stages is the least you'd expect from the Champions of Europe but I honestly can't predict anything beyond that.

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I'm not too bothered about the UEFA Super Cup, as it's essentially just a european community shield.

Nevertheless it would be embarrassing to lose to the Europa League champions. It's up to us to maintain CL's reputation, otherwise it would enforce the view from rival fans that we were fluke winners. And it's also rare to participate in it as European champions.

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The new players to bed in and have strong seasons to move forward, particularly for Hazard and Oscar who are joining for big money and with big expectations.

Top 3 in the league and within 4-5 points of United and City this year will be good progress. Like others World Club Cup is a once in a lifetime opportunity and a competition we've never competed in let alone won before. To win that and one of the domestic cups along with a much stronger showing in the league will be a good season.

In regards to the Champions League, it seems to be one of those which brings up cycles - Liverpool used to beat us, and then we knocked them out a couple of times; us and Barca have been back and forth knocking each other out - I just have a gut feeling that we'll draw Bayern in the quarter or semi finals and it will be their turn to beat us this season. Although that would be great to host them after their 'our city, our stadium, our cup' arrogance! In any event anything better than the quarter final will be good, winning it again (at Wembley) would be fucking unreal!

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Fifa Club World Cup >> FA Cup

One is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be crowned world champions, the other is a trophy available every season. I'm not too bothered about the UEFA Super Cup, as it's essentially just a european community shield. The fact we are allowing Courtois to play against us in that, goes to show how little the club cares about it.

I am fully agree with you. The opportunity to be the world Champion doesn't come at you every day. We don't even know if one day we will get the occasion to play in this competition again. Winning this trophy would get us to another level. It would extend our reputation in the whole world. It seems (I am not sure) south americans rate a lot more this competition than what we europeans do. Thus, I presume, we would extend our fan-base, and our reputation as well, in continents such as South America and Asia. No need to tell the good effects it would have on the marketing and to attract players. That's why I hope we win it and don't overlook this trophy.

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