This is a situation attributable to a horrendous, and possibly unprecedented, injury list allied to consistent levels of underperformance by players and manager.To win the last 4 games requires an improvement in performance which would be out of step with the way the rest of the season has panned out. I'm not expecting it.
As regards not qualifying for the CL, the hit we'd take on our finances would be a blow but not a terminal one as the rags, Spurs and Liverpool have all shown. As regards not being able to sign players who want to play in the CL, we'll that's fine by me. I'd prefer to sign the next generation of stars like Spurs have rather than players who think they are doing us a favour. We've been able to sign these CL hungry players for 4 or 5 years now and look where it's got us.