There was some calculation that it was more lucrative to miss the conference league altogether but EL is definitely worth it financially. It’s not where you want to be but it’s acceptable in an off season.
European football next season | United - Europa League, Chelsea - Conference League, wee club in the north-east - feck all!
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Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Huh? How to be more lucrative to miss a tournament in Europe altogether?
So what's our Europa League team next year?
- - - - - GK - - -
AWB - Lindelof/Evans - Maguire - Dalot
Erikson - SMT
Mount - AM - Rashford
- - - - - Amad - - - -
- - - - - Onana - - - - -
AWB - Martinez - CB - Shaw
- - - Mainoo - DM - - -
Garnacho - Bruno - LW
- - - - Hoijland - - - -
Out: Casemiro, Antony, Varene, Martial, etc
In: CB, DM, AM, LW, FW, GK
Hmm
- - - - - GK - - -
AWB - Lindelof/Evans - Maguire - Dalot
Erikson - SMT
Mount - AM - Rashford
- - - - - Amad - - - -
- - - - - Onana - - - - -
AWB - Martinez - CB - Shaw
- - - Mainoo - DM - - -
Garnacho - Bruno - LW
- - - - Hoijland - - - -
Out: Casemiro, Antony, Varene, Martial, etc
In: CB, DM, AM, LW, FW, GK
Hmm
I'd definitely rather not be in Europe at all than be in the conference league.
Why subject the squad to 15 mid-week games all over Europe, when they could concentrate on the Premier League+FA Cup? And the only thing you get out of the conference league is the Europa league.
Whether or not it's financially worth it to get, I wouldn't know
That's a different issue altogether. He was saying more lucrative to miss the tournament altogether.
Btw, with FFP we need to be in Europe if we want to spend more. Even with Conference League it's estimated we will earn around 40-50M.
i don’t actually mind the Europa league now that the conference leagues out. Makes it look better 
Plus the last few years you have actually had decent teams in it and sometimes teams that should be in the CL are in it. So it is a tough competition.
Plus the last few years you have actually had decent teams in it and sometimes teams that should be in the CL are in it. So it is a tough competition.I dunno then. Squad bonuses?
The current squad can probably handle one game per week and do okay.
Onana
AWB - Martinez - Maguire - Shaw
Mainoo - SMT
Garnacho - Bruno - Rashford
Hoijland
But we need to significantly invest to compete on two fronts
It’s something to do with financial fair play as Uefa rules are different regards to these new rules so missing out would allow us to spend more, So its Not that it’s more lucrative to miss Europe, it’s that we could spend more if we didn’t get it.
Someone explained it on here this week, I just can’t remember in which thread it was but they explained it really well.
I know that and it makes a lot of sense. But definitely it's not "more lucrative" to miss the tournament like what the poster stated.
I think realistically we can't compete on two fronts next year.
If we want to sell: Casemiro, Antony, Sancho, Varene, etc, then we can't compete on two fronts.
Need to play the U18s next year.
If we want to sell: Casemiro, Antony, Sancho, Varene, etc, then we can't compete on two fronts.
Need to play the U18s next year.
Yh it was Swiss ramble’s tweet. Think because we’d save more on player contract clauses given participation money is so much lower.
Never mind Shearer.
Absolutely. Hate managers who just sacrifice trophies to finish top 4. I want us to win every trophy we are in for and that's what makes a club special. Not the whole nonsense of comparing points tally and getting giddy over it.
Yesterday showed us again how great is winning trophies and I'm sure it makes the players only hungrier for more. We came close in Europa in 2020 (missed few sitters vs Sevilla in semis) and even closer in 2021. Even last season it was going well vs Sevilla until Martinez got injured and we conceded 2 late goals.
Won Carabao Cup last season, won Fa Cup this season. Europa League win should be the aim next season, to keep winning and to qualify for Champions League, as getting to CL via top 4 won't be easy with City, Arsenal, Liverpool + Chelsea and Newcastle around (Spurs and Villa could have good seasons as well).
The advantage next season is there is no drop down from the Champions League so we d
I meant his first Fa Cup win in 1990 when he was also on the verge of being sacked.
Oh yeah. I misread.
A good site to follow the qualification for the Europa League group stage.
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedel2024.html
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedel2024.html
Will be more likely to be Top 5 CL English teams will be much better genuinely seeing City win the CL, United could win EL and Chelsea should Win ECL English teams should go deep next season
They should have done that as well this season. Fact is, only four English teams will start in next seasons CL because they fecked up. There is no guarantee that they will perform as expected next season. It's surely more probable than not, but I wouldn't trust in that.
I have a message for the Newcastle
I’m delighted to be in Europa the way things ended. As it got closer to end of final I kept hearing that song “Thursday night, is Europa night”.
How much extra money do we get now we’ve qualified for Europa?
It’s funny because in Newcastle last games of the season they was all chanting we’re back in Europe…. That ended well.
It depends how far we go… could be 50 M +
There will be lots of Sunday Premier League games through the season, some not even televised in UK. Bring it on!
Are we in europa league again now ? Ffs.
Not just any Europa League, the new Europa League with 8 group stage games against 8 different random teams
The fact that that’s still the case in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four is ridiculous.
IPTV is the saviour ( I hear)
Worth it for that alone… Now wonder Shearer was so bitter
The 8th game is being playing in January. Is that later than normal? I thought the last group game is usually in December
Wink wink nudge nidge
Yes, but it's going to be the first season with 8 group matches. Until this season it was only 6.
What happens if we play Nice?
There is still the issue of both Nice and us being in this with the same owners, according to some reports we could still be forced to drop in to the Conference League.
Fun fact. Every United league match is shown with English commentary in full HD on one of the satellite TV channels of Supersport Albania.
I hope we rotate a bit more next year in the Europa. We've been guilty of playing our strongest 11 a lot in this previously when could have got away with rotating.
Absolutely is. Not just for sport either? New films, loads of TV series. Fantastic.
Yip. Theres a good German channel too and uSa (American channel obviously) shows quite a lot.
So I hear.
IPTV isn't very good quality though (so I hear). Not even proper full fat HD. Satellite is way better and without a delay.
ETH always play largely the same/strongest 11 available. He is not known to be good in rotation.