The same Juventus that spent 100 million on Ronaldo followed by 80 odd million on Dr Ligt the following season and 70 million on Arthur this season? That Juventus? Wish our owners were tight cunts like theirs.

Insert forced "like a new signing" joke here for the umpteenth time.

Too busy winning (European) Cups in May. 

Two tough games coming up but if we win them, it's going to put the shits up the teams in front of us.   United will wallop Sheffield tomorrow but could drop points at Arsenal. City have us and Spurs in the coming weeks.   If we can be a few points off top with a lot of tough games done even factoring maybe beating City, I think it's a good place to be. So many teams with something real to play for means all teams will drop points. If we were to take 28 points from 30, we are not going to be far off top with a lovely looking final few games.   City have generally always been great against the likes of West Brom. Let's see how they do against us and Spurs.    They are not City of two years ago especially without De Bruyne. Having said that, they are a very good team. The Mancs are doing a good version of us in 2013/2014 without a Luis Suarez but balanced off with a much better defence and squad than we had. I'd love to see them cope with the kind of adversity we had this season and they have an almighty hard run in with plenty of places they could drop points.

I totally agree with you re: deserved respect. I’ll be the first to admit that we may not retain the title, but when we consider the run of key injuries - regardless of how the owners have reacted - and with a lot of season left in front of us, it’s hard not to imagine that we will be riding the top three right to the end. After witnessing our narrow loss to Utd - and it was a narrow loss - and to see some of our incisive play back on display, I say, particularly if we beat Spurs, the confidence boost together with returns of some players over the coming weeks, will restore belief and lost points. 90% of what the manager and owners have put in place is still in place.