Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
I think the influence of managers is often overstated, if we go into the Europa league we will probably be one of the top teams in the competition....yes we may end up doing what we did against Monaco last season.....but even if Wenger was a better manager it's unlikely we'd seriously compete for the Champions League.

Yes we are a wealthy club, but it's the dominion of clubs like Bayern, Real, Barca...the modern super clubs....can you honestly tell me it won't be one of those three that wins it?
I agree that this season its probably gonna be one of those clubs and they have been dominating for the last 2-3 years. However, from 2003 to 2009/2010, the CL became a cup competition and we had one or two surprise packages that eventually claimed it. Porto won it without being the best in Europe, Liverpool made it into 2 finals despite being shit, Chelsea won it while finishing 6th and even we made the final despite going through a transitional period. I think we had our chances to win it and simply blew them and today its gone back to the days where you had to be and beat the best to win it.