Pittsburgh Footy
Player Valuation: £35m
This.
The goal should always be Europe, regardless of whether it makes it more difficult or not.
If we'd rather swerve Europe, what's the point of playing?
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The goal should always be Europe, regardless of whether it makes it more difficult or not.
If we'd rather swerve Europe, what's the point of playing?
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
They might be, but they weren't what we needed. If you put Crusaders in the English football pyramid, they'd be in the equivalent of the National League North, so yeah, I'm completely confident they'd get the job done.
Should we finish 7th, i'd be more than happy to do exactly that, and even if we decided to throw more first teamers in, in the next round, fine. It would be 3 days before the start of the season.
You're either overrating some of Europe's basement barrel sides, or clearly think we'd have to go full strength, here's a hint... we don't.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
I'm not saying full strength but it gets pretty bad pretty quick for our depth.
Hope we fall short and don't qualify.
Really hope we increase our income by 30m myself.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
I've listed a potential 10 players who could easily do a job, i'm confident in that.
You can play first team players, but save it for the home game. If we're up and the 2nd leg is at home, we don't have to, but can still plan a proper pre-season around that, in my opinion.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
It's certainly an obstacle. I think it's ok for me to be a bit worried about whether the club is up for the challenge.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
Well we'll have to agree to disagree. A man with pedigree and knowledge of Europe like Ancellotti, i'd have full faith in guiding us past qualifying rounds of Europa.
Koeman was a whole different entity.
I was warmed by what Ancelotti said a few days ago
"for me it's normal to be preparing a team to play a game every 3/4 days. I like to work this way, to have a game every 3/4 days"
The players simply have to buy into this train of thought. If your playing every 3/4 days it means your successful. This squad have had it far too easy, brushing off defeats and no success or demands put on them.
Every one of them to a man has a great chance to learn from one of the most successful managers of the modern era. So if I was. A player my mindset would be to go balls deep for the rest of the season and demand EL qualification as a minimum from myself and my teammates and if I didn't make it then I would expect my position at Everton as a player to come under question.
"for me it's normal to be preparing a team to play a game every 3/4 days. I like to work this way, to have a game every 3/4 days"
The players simply have to buy into this train of thought. If your playing every 3/4 days it means your successful. This squad have had it far too easy, brushing off defeats and no success or demands put on them.
Every one of them to a man has a great chance to learn from one of the most successful managers of the modern era. So if I was. A player my mindset would be to go balls deep for the rest of the season and demand EL qualification as a minimum from myself and my teammates and if I didn't make it then I would expect my position at Everton as a player to come under question.
I want to get this season behind us, then concentrate on bringing in the right players as quickly as possible and having a good pre-season. But to be honest, although I want us to win everything we play in, I don't like the European Comps anyway, so I'm pretty biased.
We need Europa as a club, for revenues.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
I actually think qualifying for Europe would make the players look at themselves and think "this is what we can do, when we try". I think if we get in, it'll be down to Ancelotti's influence, which shouldn't be overlooked.
It's a very, very big if.
PeregrineT
Player Valuation: £35m
I dont think that its the case at all that 7th places misses out if an english club wins both CL and Europa. That wouldnt make any sense unless one of the teams is outside of the top 7. In that case yes, the 4th place team gets drop to Europa, but 4 teams still go to CL(CL and Europa winner, plus top 2 teams on the table), 3 teams still get dropped to Europa, 4th, EFL cup and FA cup.
So as far as I know its fine if an english team wins CL and EL, just so long as they are in the top 7. 7 english teams go to Europe, its just like if a non-top 7 won the FA cup.
So as far as I know its fine if an english team wins CL and EL, just so long as they are in the top 7. 7 english teams go to Europe, its just like if a non-top 7 won the FA cup.
I know mate, but it's just crap. Also, is the Europa League a big revenue generator? One of the 'moans' I used to hear a lot was that clubs ended up at a financial loss by being in the competition, even if they did well in it.
That was then, its different now, not CL money, but it defo gives clubs a nice bump.
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