Good Bye RVP!

[Olivier's xmas twist]

If not making the CL finally forces change so we invest in players, then I'd be less concerned. As far as the Europa League is concerned, if we were to end up in that but actually win it, at least we would have something for the players to build on. Coming out with nothing for a couple more years would hardly be inspiring. I'll even settle for the FA Cup this year if it means the team having something to give them a boost, however small.

Yep time to focus on that and hope for 4th even the fa cup and 5th the fans would settle for.

[Master Splinter]

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Letters .

[Coney]

Although it would not interest me at all until the latter stages (like the CC) we need to play in the Europa League at least.

If there is no European football at all next year, how are we going to attract players? The Europa is not as impressive as the CL, but it is better than bugger all. Competing with 6/7 teams for the CL/EL spots and coming 5th by a couple of points off 4th at least shows possibilities for the next year. Failing to even qualify for the EL after all the years in the CL, failing to win anything for 6 years after having been dominant and collecting silverware for the preceding 10 years is the sign of a club in decline.

While we are not terminally damaged, we are holed below the waterline and need to get some repairs done NOW. Like this window. A couple of decent buys and we have every chance of getting a CL spot. No significant buys and we are certainly doomed to not being in the CL and a fair chance of not being in European competitions at all. Now if the club was short of dosh I'd understand but we are not and there is no financial reason why we should not make the investment.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

If there is no European football at all next year, how are we going to attract players? The Europa is not as impressive as the CL, but it is better than bugger all. Competing with 6/7 teams for the CL/EL spots and coming 5th by a couple of points off 4th at least shows possibilities for the next year. Failing to even qualify for the EL after all the years in the CL, failing to win anything for 6 years after having been dominant and collecting silverware for the preceding 10 years is the sign of a club in decline.

While we are not terminally damaged, we are holed below the waterline and need to get some repairs done NOW. Like this window. A couple of decent buys and we have every chance of getting a CL spot. No significant buys and we are certainly doomed to not being in the CL and a fair chance of not being in European competitions at all. Now if the club was short of dosh I'd understand but we are not and there is no financial reason why we should not make the investment.

There is only one way we will get in the cl is if we win the thing, and money won't be spent for us to do it. We get a god draw we could go far in the comp and who knows.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Although it would not interest me at all until the latter stages (like the CC) we need to play in the Europa League at least.

Yeah if we have any designs of getting back in to the Champions League then being in the Europa League will just benefit us in terms of future seeding, let alone the fact it is a trophy.

[Letters]

If there is no European football at all next year, how are we going to attract players?

Oh yeah, 'cos we're attracting them l, r and c right now
We're a big club European football or not. Spurs attracted players when they were in mid-table, they just waved money at them. Players like money.

[Coney]

Oh yeah, 'cos we're attracting them l, r and c right now
We're a big club European football or not. Spurs attracted players when they were in mid-table, they just waved money at them. Players like money.

Maybe we should put in a cheeky bid, buy 'arry and sack Wenger.

[Letters]

Maybe we should put in a cheeky bid, buy 'arry and sack Wenger.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Oh yeah, 'cos we're attracting them l, r and c right now
We're a big club European football or not. Spurs attracted players when they were in mid-table, they just waved money at them. Players like money.

Problem will be our top players won;t want to play in it we just play the kids till the 1/4 stage. we won't take it serious at all.

[Boss]

Europa League is a worthless competition, wouldn't want us in it at all. Of course it looks quite likely we'll be playing in it next season unless we (hopefully) fuck up the qualifiers.

You have to play more overall games than you would in the CL, which fucks up your overall league 'challenge' (in our case, the battle for 4th) and it's also a lot more tiring on the squad given it starts earlier and away trips mean travels to the middle of nowhere for games. Also very unlikely we'd win it.

Waste of time imo.

As for attracting players, we'll always be able to do that even if we dropped out of European football completely. Top players want to play in the CL, the Europa League is hardly a positive compared to no European footy at all.