Timhowardsswearbox
Player Valuation: £6m
Whilst I don't mind these kinds of comparisons, I'm Torn on this one.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £70m
Oh God, have I started another pun trail?!
It could be as low as 9th afaik
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
How does it get to 9th?
From what I've reas, it's currently the top 5 go into the CL. The only way the league gets an extra CL place could be if Villa finish 5th and also win the Europa League (this wouldn't apply if Villa finished 4th and Liverpool finished 5th, for example, it'd only be top 5 in the CL for some odd reason). Also, in the scenario where the top 6 get CL, the EL place which 6th would have got doesn't drop down another place, it gets assigned to a different league (again, for some odd reason).
So essentially you're looking at top 5 in the CL (or potentially 6)
6th place in the EL (as long as Villa don't win the EL and finish 5th)
7th place in the EL (assuming City win the cup, otherwise it would be Chelsea, no matter where they finish)
8th place in the Conference league (as long as Chelsea don't win the cup)
I haven't seen any scenario where European qualification goes down to 9th?
You may be right
I did not know the Europa place is reassigned if the 6th place gets CL
I assumed it dropped down
raiseyoureyebrow4thewin!
Player Valuation: £2.5m
we had 9 English teams in Europe this season tho
It's actually if they win it and finish 6th.
Everton can forget Champions League and Europa League, we messed it up.
True footballing giants Bournemouth and Brighton will battle it out instead.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
Yep, but not all from league placings.
Top 5 went into the CL
6th place went into the EL
Palace won the cup and should have gone into the EL, but because of Textor's multi-club shenanigans they went into the Conference league and Forest, who should have been in the Conference by virtue of finishing 7th (Newcastle having qualified for the CL so the Conference place they won by winning the EFL Cup passed back to the league).
The outlier was that 17th placed Spurs won the Europa League and qualified for CL, giving us 9 European qualifiers this season
We could still theoretically have 10 English teams in Europe this season if Palace and Forest win the European competitions they're playing in, but that shouldn't affect who qualifies for Europe via a league placing.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
How many Premier League teams can qualify for Europe?
European football is still a realistic ambition for multiple Premier League teams as the season draws to a close
www.tntsports.co.uk
Not according to this
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Yes, no faith in us doing it. But at a push we can get 7 points and then see what 55 points gets us.
I suspect we'll finish where we are right now, tbh.
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
I wouldn't mate.
Bournemouth have a decent run in apart from City but are 4 points ahead of us already. They will take a spot.
Brighton have a run-in you'd kill for and are 2 points ahead of us already. They'll probably take 7th.
Brentford don't have a great run-in, but are 3 points ahead of us with a better goal difference - they might be the most catchable but we'd need to take 7 points and hope that they take no more than 3.
And even then you've got the unknowns of Chelsea, Sunderland, Fulham and even Newcastle.
It's not impossible, but that West Ham result was a killer and it's made us big outsiders. Even 55 points (which I've thought for ages would be just about enough to sneak in) looks 50/50 in terms of it being potentially enough. I think to guarantee qualifying, we'd need to win all 3.
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
Disapointing return of points, Even 9 points from here is not quiet what I would have been happy with, 60 points is what i would have said was acceptable thats an improvment of 12 on the previous season, should have been achievable.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
As things stand right now we're equal with Dyche's best season total of 48 points...achieved with a club in crisis on and off the pitch...and I couldn't make a strong case that we'll definitely surpass it as the other games I could conceivably see us losing.
It's been a terrible return on £110M expended on players and the backing of an extra 12,000 fans this season.
Appalling really.
