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But it never works out like that does it?

So long as you have a sufficiently strong squad I see Europe as a helpful distraction from domestoic games, especially at the latter stages where you take the confidence of winning into your league ganes - as we did in the treble-winning season of 2000-01

it can work against you - I don't think we would have had such a poor season in the league that year we won the Chamoions League in 2005 had we not been involved in the knock out stages - but as I said, oyr squad back then was weak

You might be right - as judging by the signings we'll be making this summer our squad is still lacking in quality

Here comes the "Prince of Darkness"

i prefer not to play in Europe's mickey mouse cup. The thursday-sunday games screw u eventually over the course of the season. You're constantly playing catch up and for most games you have 2 days of rest.

With no european distractions this season, the boys can concentrate on the 3 points every week. no excuses this time

I don't have my calculator on me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure there are more than 2 days between sunday & thursday! But even if you were right and the players "only" had 2 days between games, don't you think that's more than enough rest to recover from a 90 minute game of football!?!

What's the point in trying to win the league if our reward will be the "distraction" of champions league football the following season?

im not too unhappy at not being in europe. just hope we have a solid season and a trip to wembley would be nice

Do you think that we fixed some thing up to not get into europa? We tried hard to finish 5th and couldnt. So thats it...
So whats the point in discussing that if we were in europa, we could attract players? We would rather talk that if we were in champions league then we would attract players. Both are meaning less cuz we are not in those competitions....!

theres only 2 days rest if you only have Friday and Saturday to rest, add in travelling to god knows where in Europe and over the course of the season it adds up pretty quickly. If Fulham are to win it this year, they will have to play 23 matches. thats a lot of extra games to play and a lot more fatigue for players.

What's the "point" in discussing anything about the club? If you don't want to discuss theoretical situations, just leave the thread and post in a topic that interests you.

think the longer you are out of the top four the harder it is to get back into it and thats with or without Europa League games. If we fail to qualify again this coming season which in all honesty looks a very good bet it will mean we have been out of Champions League football for three seasons and counting, When you take into consideration we need the top players to get back in, in the first place and any top player with his weight will always put money, Champions league Football and a chance to win the games biggest honours all ahead of a Club who can only really offer a rich yesteryear History and talk of a mythical blueprint of a so called brighter future which might bare fruit in about four years time, the chances dont look too good of us getting back into the top four.

The thing is, we weren't good enough to be honest. I disagree the fact that European nights will make LFC lost focus domestically. It will indeed tire the players but hey, they are professional aren't they? And it is every player dream to play in the CL so for them not to focus domestically as a high paid professional sportsmen is totally out of the question.

In regards to Spurs down trend during the end of last season is not because of fatigue, its simply because of the contention for the top 4 placing is getting fiercer as years gone by. Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal play in the CL but hey, they are still up there. They have got players that are good enough to compete at the highest level. They also have depth in the squad that can be rotated accordingly. Well i just hope that it will be a blessing in disguise for LFC and we do get back in the top 4 and aim for the 19th title in years to come. It is just sad that the Scum took over the spot now. Just my 2 cents.