Agree with most of it, except that I would have EL > top 4, as you get CL football after winning EL anyway, plus a trophy to celebrate.
How seriously should we be taking the FA Cup this season?
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Provided LASK isn't 120 minutes of hell, it will be full strength at Norwich as there is then an international break.
Agree with this list.
It was different when only the league champions and previous European Cup winners went into European cup. When I was young the only live football you saw on TV was FA Cup final, England friendlies and World Cup. The rest was highlights on Match Of The Day with Jimmy Hill and it was on late so you had to record it on video tape!
Would be really happy if we win it. Although I think we should prioritise the League or the Europa League to get us to the Champions League next year. I think it would do great for the younger players to win a trophy together.
Laugh all you want mate, but Pogba has been injured for a while. The fa cup is a route to ease him back in and i did say rotations will happen depending on the situation. Sometime in early April i'd have him take a spot in the team that is geared towards us finishing as highly as we can in the league or winning Europa, but as of today, no. FA cup against Norwich and off the bench appearances in the other competitions.You’d only play Pogba in the FA cup ?
Agreed.
This, imo, was the problem with Poch at Spurs. if he'd taken the cups seriously and managed to win one, then the team would gain confidence from knowing that they are capapble of winning.
But if you look from another perspective nobody want to be involved in EL in the first place. Everyone rather get TOP 4 and compete in CL.
It depends how you see it. Once you get into top 4, all you want is CL football, but once you fail to progress beyond CL group stage, you go back to EL straight away anyway, and the only way to progress to CL again is to win EL, or get into top 4. But as I've mentioned, you get trophy to celebrate when winning EL, you don't get it finishing top 4. So in this perspective, CL football>EL trophy>top 4 finish.
I'm not sure I understand this logic. The point of attracting top players is to that we can compete for trophies. Players play to win, supporters watch their clubs hoping they win something, this issue with the money is something for the owners and accountants to worry about, not us.
So to give up on trying to win a trophy so we can attract top players or earn more money is ironical, to say the least.
Old enough to still care about the FA Cup. Win three games and it's silverware. Go for it.
It depends what type of player you want to attract.
If you are top talent like Mbappe or Sancho, would you join a club who consistently fail to finish top 4 with no CL football for years, but occasionally win some domestic cup trophies? Of course not. They all want to shine on the biggest stage to build their career and legacy, and for club football, there's no bigger stage than CL.
Why is the Norwich game due on Saturday, just a day's rest after we play LASK at home, and not Sunday ?
We are not in a position to cherry pick our throphies.
Don't wanna be a prick, but it's a bit of an arrogant thread.
Any trophy would do these players a lot of good and raise the spirit around.
This squad should be ok to fight on all 3 fronts, cup, uel and epl. Also, let's be honest, the uel and cup were pretty easg until now.
Don't wanna be a prick, but it's a bit of an arrogant thread.
Any trophy would do these players a lot of good and raise the spirit around.
This squad should be ok to fight on all 3 fronts, cup, uel and epl. Also, let's be honest, the uel and cup were pretty easg until now.
I love the FA Cup and we would equal Arsenal’s most wins record if we won it.
It could supply the momentum this team needs to progress.
It could supply the momentum this team needs to progress.
When did fans stop wanting United to win everything we enter?
Well I would rather Utd win cups with Lingard and Perreira than win nothing but finish in top 4 every season with Mbappe and Sancho. The point of any big club is to try to win every competition they enter. I don't want us to be like the liverpool or Arsenal of the 2000s and early 2010s who win nothing but quality for top 4 every year. Football is all about moments, winning a cup is a happy moment, celebrating at the end of the season because you finished 4th is no moment.
If somebody had said in 1999 we'd only win the FA Cup twice in the next 20 years i'd have laughed, well i'm not laughing now, time to win it again and knock Arsenal off our perch.