"If you carried on as you were and you didn't start putting in the kind of performances the team expected, you were going to lose your drive. Well, it's happened."
"Every player on that team has to weather the expectation. The expectation is to win, absolute."
"Ultimately this team's got to deliver on the pitch."
"Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams."
"The passing offense in Tampa, we expect big things."
"We expect all of our players, particularly our captain, to work to the rules and standards we have set and agreed."
"But what I'm saying is if you've got the best team and supposedly I'm rightly so the best manager the most success and you don't win it oh not over one season you can't just say you have to win the Champions League this season."
"Sometimes you're not playing good but we are Manchester United. You have to win and you cannot give it away like we did."
"Seven points from 12 is crap... That isn't good enough for a club like Manchester United."
"Miami Heat had expectations of being one of the top teams in the East."
"It seemed amazing we had super high hopes about this composition...didn't end up being as efficient as some other ones."
"If we don't win a championship this year, I mean, we might as well call it a wrap."
"Expectancy is there and Craig is right, the expectancy went up with Ole as soon as those players signed."
"If TSM does not make it out, it's actually a huge disappointment."
"New York didn't play perfect but they'd still be what everyone predicted would be the best team in the league."
"Manchester United's expectation is top four next season."
"Finishing second is not a good season winning stuff that is a good season slash great season."
"They need to win trophies. Surely, it's come to that point."
"A phenomenal year if Mississippi State goes eight and four against their schedule."
"ENCE should have probably been in this final."
"With a player of his quality and the players of quality around him as well, he wants to be looking at double figures."
"If we don't get Sancho plus don't strengthen, that's going to be a meltdown."
"I think this is what we should be seeing out of OpTic 10 out of 10 times every single time."
"I'm happy we've got PSG because the reality is, United, if we've got Porto, it'd be like, 'Well, we're not expected to win,'" embraces the challenge of facing PSG.
"If we don't bring it against Fulham, there's a big issue."
"A good year will be winning one of those and I think anything less than that's just going to be another disappointment."
"Expectations have to change completely. Last year, it was like maybe where can we win, can we draw, you know, something like this. And this year is completely different."
"Recalibration of expectation is coming with this team"
"For this team to not make the finals would be a historic choke job."
"Eventually they're going to hit some sort of adversity, you can't play that great all season... unless you're the Boston Celtics."
"It's a good season because we're exceeding our preseason expectations."
"We want all the smoke. I expect the Lakers to get this thing done."
"The NBA is a championship or bust year for the Clippers, and I expect Kawhi to be playing as motivated as we've ever seen him play."
"I think a successful season for Manchester United would be top four, so let's say fourth, Europa League, and FA Cup. That's not a successful season, I'm sorry, it's not."
"Another team meeting expectations so far this season Dam saw a contender looking to avenge falling just short of the ultimate goal."
"Enough is enough! ... It needs to evolve, it needs to move on, and it must always be challenging to be the best club in the world."
"There is growing feeling and confidence that we're going to get Varane."
"Super Bowl or bust with Denver Broncos staring down the barrel."
"The reigning MSI champions come to Worlds with a lot to prove."
"Expectations have improved in the Champions League. I could see us doing a deep Champions League run."
"Rivals of Chelsea have been bantering all summer, your process is dead, you're not going to sign anybody very good."
"Tottenham have hired a winner, let's see if he's a winner at the elite level."
"You'd imagine that these guys want to be coming back firing, they want to make sure they can guarantee themselves Sports in the first team."
"Every footballer who puts on a Man United shirt doesn't need a 'tryhard' attribute."
"Franchises like the Lakers or the Yankees should always have this Lombardi-style coach."
"What can fans expect from the Atlanta Falcons in 2024? We're going to make it happen."
"In some ways by finishing maybe 5th, 6th, even 7th they are underperforming."
"If you're at Chelsea, you have to win. Right?"
"I need the effort that he brought in games one and three. I need that on a nightly basis."
"It's hard to tell the team that has extra cycles and energy and want to do something amazing that would be amazing for the game we should not ship this because this is an over delivery that will set us up for failure on future trains."
"Next season, I'm not accepting anything less than winning the English Premier League."
"This is the Optic that we were all expecting to see."
"Even though I do come out and said there's no targets the target after spending 150 mil and finishing eighth last year is top six I'm not having anything else."
"If you're seventh place with this roster, it definitely feels like you're not performing up to expectations."
"If this was the roster given for the start of the year, people would still think they would be a top team."
"As soon as we get a center-back in the CDM then I will be happy and call that a successful summer transfer window."
"When it's all said and done it's Chelsea at home against Nottingham Forest we should win this game regardless of what team you put out."
"But the reality is, if you bring Allegri in or you bring Simeone in, you're gonna see pragmatic football back at United again."
"Controversial wins like these that the performance was below par will take us back to the heights we strive to be back."
"We're trying to set the expectation throughout the entire organization that we expect to win."