Also true. You do have to wonder who the inside sources are sometimes.
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Also true. You do have to wonder who the inside sources are sometimes.
Relative performance matters. If we're the fourth best, no matter how bad that is compared to the top three, we'll stay in fourth spot.
Read this, it explains it pretty well http://www.skysports.com/football/n...ampions-league-spot-under-threat-from-serie-a
As I said previously on this; it would be fantastic of the clubs, press, and 'some' fans could take the Europa League seriously.
How can they though when it's by design a second-rate competition?
Hows it designed to be a 2nd rate competition? CL spot up for grabs for one, just because English teams dont take it seriously doesnt mean the rest of europe doesnt?
No it is not.
To answer your question on how likely it is then. I'd say not very... not unless we continue to get worse and the Italians continue to get better.
As it's on a 5 year cycle, They've only outperformed us once and that's only because Juve got to the final.
However the performance of English clubs doesn't look like it will be improving any time soon and the fact that we pretty much ignore the Eurpoa league every year doesn't help either.
As it's on a 5 year cycle, They've only outperformed us once and that's only because Juve got to the final.
However the performance of English clubs doesn't look like it will be improving any time soon and the fact that we pretty much ignore the Eurpoa league every year doesn't help either.
.If they perform better than English teams this year they will move above us in the rankings and we lose the 4th place spot, given how **** english teams are in Europe thats very likely.
Actually, yes, more likely than I thought TBH.
It's still a big enough gap that it will likely take two seasons to catch us. But as I said earlier, they have only out performed us once in 5 seasons, thanks to Juve's run to the final.
That might be for the best, when the 4th qualifying spot is taken away it might start a bit of an arms race. As things stand the top four teams only really have to be better than the likes of Tottenham/Liverpool to qualify and have a good season (ie. Arsenal happily finishing 4th every season while paying off their stadium debts).
Your forgetting the Eurpoa League where Napoli got the semis, if Juve were to outperform English clubs in the CL (highly likely) and the Italian clubs perform better in the Europa (again given how its treated by in large by English clubs) then Italian clubs will be getting that 4th spot ahead of English teams
Especially seeing as the year that is about to drop off the coefficient calculator (11/12) has a 3.9 point gap between English and Italian teams. The current overall gap is almost exactly 4.
If they don't have enough this year, then next year is very possible.
If they don't have enough this year, then next year is very possible.
Yea, you can get youngsters or other players that arent attached to big clubs. Its just teams are very reluctant to sell during Jan as it's hard to replace..