The EL is way too strong these days to take a "just win the EL!" approach. You obviously try to win it but we wouldn't be favourites against a Leverkusen.
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The EL is way too strong these days to take a "just win the EL!" approach. You obviously try to win it but we wouldn't be favourites against a Leverkusen.
Really irks me when fans discard the Europa League, as if it’s beneath us.
Would be incredible to win it.
They will be in CL next season
And another team having a very strong season who are on the rise will take their place. The EL now always has a handful of extremely strong side. This season Liverpool are in there as well, we would be third favourites at best.
Yeah true
Mind you only slightly less embarrassing than 4th and everyone’s been fine with that for years
That's a fair point
Exactly, getting fourth and CL is barely more impressive than getting fifth and CL.
We haven't been in a title race. It's still feeding off scraps from the top table.
I'd rather be in the CL than not though
I've been highly dismissive of the EL in recent years, mainly because the inclusion of some absolutely rank teams from rank leagues has been an utter detrimental drain in the Group stages of the competition, not sure how anyone can get up for playing a team called carry bag and watching them play on a school football pitch in outer Mongolia in front of 5k fans can be sold as good Thursday night viewing (even our own attendance figures at old WHL were less than half full against such fodder, made for some appalling atmospheres with only 1882 voices to full back on).
BUT..............
Since the arrival of the Conference thingy a lot of those teams now end up playing here as well (I still genuinely believe that teams from the PL and a cut-off in the other top 4 European Leagues shouldn't be allowed to compete in it as they dwarf the small teams in financial power make it a farce e.g. David Moyes wages were greater than many of the team's annual revenue that competed in the ECL!!! That's a fucking ridiculous!!). So as a consequence, the Europa League has regained some of it's kudos IMO, maybe this is also due to some old European big clubs going through struggles in recent seasons like Milan and Inter, BVB, OL, Lyon, Villa Real, Sevilla, Roma, Benfica, Marseille, Ajax (PSV, Feynord have always been strong in Europe and in reality like Ajax will never really compete in CL due to finances) there are probably a further 10 I guess I could include. In addition, there are Clubs that are up and coming who are or will be strong performers given their newfound financial standing and the style of football they are playing like Brighton, Villa, Newcastle, Sporting, Gent, Brugge, Rennes, Gerona, Atalanta etc
Even the Group Stages are now decent match-up of teams and the one crappy team in your group becomes a challenge and a must-win in order to qualify with the away leg a genuine banana skin that must be avoided a bit of jeopardy is thrown into the mix.
It's also still the most beautiful-looking trophy to adorn any trophy cabinet.
We need Citeh to win the bloody thing now
And PL if they were 6 pts clear of the rest on 13th May that would be even better
I’m sure we all are! I’ll be as stressed as watching spurs.
It's really no stronger than it ever has been. It's never been a "just show up and win" affair, the problem has only ever been that foolish English clubs have always viewed it as a shit competition, ironically while pretending that the League Cup, which they basically play in for free, is a worthwhile endeavor. Tottenham supporters, in particular, I think underrate the EL because of collective PTSD from years of "Thursday night on ITV" taunts.
The last 3 finals have been:
Sevilla v Roma
Frankfurt v Rangers
Villarreal v United
We would have been favourites in a final against any of those 6. It's a trophy we should have won multiple times in the past 20 years, and a fair target for us. I'd rather finish 7th next season because we were trying to win something than try to squeak 4th for the 15th year running.
Owner wants his club to be in CL to gain maximum revenue exposure shocker
As if theres any question!!??
We make or own fortune or we are not good enough. Woolwich however? Fuck them and may they rot
Yep
If we're good enough to get CL football, we'll get it.
If we're not, so be it.
But fuck those cunts.
