Manchester United’s victory in the FA Cup final was the Best outcome we could have had.
If we had got 6th and the Europa League, we would now be looking at qualifying for the Wilkos European Trophy. At what stage do relegated teams qualify for the ‘Even worse than the slightly less crappy European trophy competition for teams finishing 15th-17th’.
We now have an entire season where both Man U and Chelsea are playing Thursday/Sunday for a large part of the winter, where we can capitalise and have a real go at top 4 again, providing the recruitment is right this summer.
Blows my mind reading some of the takes elsewhere that any player worth his salt would be attracted to a team playing in the 3rd best European competition, basically the European trophy equivalent of the Fat Kids with Diabetes race at the annual infant school sports day.
I don’t care if this comes across as an arrogant, self-entitled supporter opinion, from someone who thinks the club he supports, who haven’t won a trophy in 54 years, are too good for it. I don’t want to do a West Ham, I don’t want to celebrate winning the 3rd best competition in Europe, it’s a total sham and nothing to be proud of.
There are two European competitions, and the only way we would have qualified for the Europa League this year was to get 5th or win the FA Cup, we did neither because we weren’t good enough.
Let’s have a good summer and a free run next year in the league, and try to win one of the domestic cups. Until we have a deeper squad, we are not equipped to deal with Europe anyway, this season showed that.
