Pughnichi
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Be good experience for players to get their hands on a trophy. Winning breeds winning mentality.
It's a new one on me if they can appeal again.Can they not appeal again? Seem like there's an appeal until a club wins who's been banned..
That's good to know, thanks Mr Van Gaal..Yes go for the win
We just have to win 3 games (4 if you include Lask) and the trophy is ours so the argument or the point of blaming europa for fatigue is silly. I bet more fans will be pissed if we were to be knocked out in the semis or lose the final.Don't get me wrong, I hope we win it, and if we can do it and rotate the squad, that's a bonus. But not that long ago, when we were regularly in the ECL, people were deriding the Europa League as a poor man's Champions League, and you can see a point of view that says, why risk wearing out (or getting injuries) to key players when the new season is likely to start very soon after the EL "mini tournament" and we're already back in the ECL anyway and the EL is just an alternate route to ECL?
But agree a trophy would be a good lift for the team and the supporters, and Ole seems up for it. Of course, if we weren't to start the new season well, I suspect some people would be pointing a finger at the EL.
Judge and Woodward will be in Dortmund negotiating for Sancho while we're beating Roma.Play a weakened team against LASK on 5th August, whilst all the big hitters are on an almost two week break. Last league game is 26th July. FA Cup Final is 1st August if we get there and may throw a spanner in the works for the rest period.
Quarter finals are 10th/11th August, Semis on 16th August, Final on 21st August.
Its doable I say, and we should go for it. The quarters and semis are one off games in Germany too.
Course it is it’s a European trophy , it’ll ease the pain of the league a littleNot a lot of reaction in the Caf to the EL draw, and I wondered if there's a view that we're not interested in it if we qualify for ECL through the EPL, which is now likely unless our form dips in the remaining matches?
Is it worth the effort, as it's a trophy, or would we be better to risk going out early to protect our squad for a shortened summer break (and give youth and squad players some game time)?
Naturally, if we missed out on 4th or 3rd, the situation would be different.
On a separate note, if we play Copenhagen, we meet Guillermo Varela and Bryan Oviedo. And start practicing how to say Sotirios Papagiannopoulos (who is Swedish). If we play İstanbul Başakşehir, we meet up with Gaël Clichy, Demba Ba, Martin Škrtel and Robinho, plus a few others who've played in England.
Great point, forgot about that!We would be in with the top seeds in the CL if we won it. We would be in pot 2 if we just made it via the top 4.
Our players have had a 3 month break they should only need a couple of weeks away with their families, if that's allowed, then they can get straight back at it.I get the point the OP is making, instead of a summer break we will go into another round of competitive fixtures and then straight into a PL season (where in recent years the margin for error has been practically zero). I don’t think you can completely disregard whether it’s more beneficial to be fresh or to have won a trophy. It’s at least up for a fair debate because by next May we will have been playing football for a year straight.
I would fall on the side of winning mentality being infectious and it would be good from the managers, players and fans (and the financial and marketing departments) for us to win it. Hopefully we bring in a couple of quality players to ease The workload.