I just think we have to be careful what we wish for. If we don't get CL football for next season, will we stand a better chance of qualifying for it next season without having been in it? I'm not sure.

Since we last won the league, we finished runners up the season later. Even since then, we've been duped into thinking that 4th place is fine. Who's to say that qualifying for the Europa isnt going to be the desired prerequisite? Standards are seriously slipping.

Teams around us are getting stronger. I just almost feel like if we don't blink, they'll blink first. If we keep blocking other teams from getting in the CL (just to be clear, I want us to be in it to win it) then they might get frustrated into making stupid managerial decisions (I'm looking at Spurs, Man United and Liverpool).