Europa League

If we end up in the Europa, the only (well-disguised) blessing will be that we should the focus 100% on winning the title. That is, winning the title, not just finishing Top 4.
If, to achieve this, we have to play mainly kids in the Europa, so be it. At least it will give them much-needed first-team experience and lots of air miles. Under no circumstances should we allow anything to get in the way of the pursuit of the English title. (I think this is one of the things that went wrong this year - a decision to prioritise the Champions League on the assumption that we couldn't possibly fall below 4th anyway.)
 
BrianW said:
If we end up in the Europa, the only (well-disguised) blessing will be that we should the focus 100% on winning the title. That is, winning the title, not just finishing Top 4.
If, to achieve this, we have to play mainly kids in the Europa, so be it. At least it will give them much-needed first-team experience and lots of air miles. Under no circumstances should we allow anything to get in the way of the pursuit of the English title. (I think this is one of the things that went wrong this year - a decision to prioritise the Champions League on the assumption that we couldn't possibly fall below 4th anyway.)
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absolutely this. arrogance beyond belief.
 
BrianW said:
If we end up in the Europa, the only (well-disguised) blessing will be that we should the focus 100% on winning the title. That is, winning the title, not just finishing Top 4.
If, to achieve this, we have to play mainly kids in the Europa, so be it. At least it will give them much-needed first-team experience and lots of air miles. Under no circumstances should we allow anything to get in the way of the pursuit of the English title. (I think this is one of the things that went wrong this year - a decision to prioritise the Champions League on the assumption that we couldn't possibly fall below 4th anyway.)
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At some stage we need to stop paying lip service to youth development and actually give it a high priority. What does that actually mean in practice? Well we should give the manager a brief that his targets are the Premier League and Champions League, and that we wish to use domestic cup competitions to blood youngsters. This may not be popular with the fan base, but I believe the majority would get on board if this was announced as club policy, and they were to see some promising youngsters being given a chance.
 
I have absolutely no problem with the EL, said many times I actually prefer it. that said I'm a fan not a player that we are trying to entice to the club. the level of player we need to be looking at really will only sign for a club in the CL, Pep is a big big draw but his status can only carry us so far. we could easily be left with a majority of this squad, they are on big money and have contracts, who is going to take yaya, kolorov off our hands for instance. I wont even go there with Bony.

despite my misgivings I still love our club and as soon as the last ball is kicked i'll be itching for the fixtures to come out next month and we go again. if we are in the EL then so be it, they are great trips. quite how the wristband thing will work I don't know, some grounds we will visit hold like 5000 fans with us getting 800 at best. this is the knock on of the manager fucking about with our team and or at the very least taking his eye off the ball. he has let down the fans, cost the club millions and lost us the chance to sign the very best players out there.

and still people support him, from afar yes but they still support him. madness.
 
Failure to progress in the Europa League would mean a set back in UEFA standings and being placed in a lower group in the CL for perhaps some years with a risk of coming up against two top teams in the group stages. Sometimes you have to play CL on Wednesday and PL on Saturday. That is no difference from Thursday and Sunday. Progress in both competitions makes challenging in the PL more difficult but that will definitely be what the owners want.
 
Bill said:
I have absolutely no problem with the EL, said many times I actually prefer it. that said I'm a fan not a player that we are trying to entice to the club. the level of player we need to be looking at really will only sign for a club in the CL, Pep is a big big draw but his status can only carry us so far. we could easily be left with a majority of this squad, they are on big money and have contracts, who is going to take yaya, kolorov off our hands for instance. I wont even go there with Bony.

despite my misgivings I still love our club and as soon as the last ball is kicked i'll be itching for the fixtures to come out next month and we go again. if we are in the EL then so be it, they are great trips. quite how the wristband thing will work I don't know, some grounds we will visit hold like 5000 fans with us getting 800 at best. this is the knock on of the manager fucking about with our team and or at the very least taking his eye off the ball. he has let down the fans, cost the club millions and lost us the chance to sign the very best players out there.

and still people support him, from afar yes but they still support him. madness.
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How does being in the CL make it easier to dispose of the players you mention?
 
Am I right in thinking we will be highly seeded if we end up in the EL groups? And would that lead to at least a couple of east European games against teams seeded much lower? Will we, as a team with 5 CL seasons end up in pot 1 for the groups?
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
If we end up here, we play the same kind of team that turned out at The Bridge for BTs showpiece! In fact, I'd play the EDS team!
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Even if we play a "Chelsea team" it still means Guardiola and the coaching staff spending 2-3 days supervising the EL match rather than preparing the team for the next PL game. It still means that the first team players that are not involved are limited in numbers during training, ticking over rather than focusing on the next game.
 
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