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Just suppose that some of the players that have chosen not to join us WERE actual targets.....
Just suppose that the club settled for 6th place and didn't want to qualify for the europa league.....

Should we have made more of an effort in the last 2-3 weeks of the season to finish with a european place? I think we should. Granted, we may not be offering potential targets the chance to play against the likes barcelona, real madrid or inter milan but there's still enough big european clubs in the europa league to have tempted some bigger name signings. As it stands, we can offer incoming players the chance to be playing against swansea, aston villa and norwich on a regular basis. Had we qualified for the Europa league we'd offering players the chance to play against atletico madrid, PSG, eindhoven, roma, sevilla, lazio......Still a decent bargaining position. And with those better quality players we'd be attracting, we would almost certainly be in the CL the following season allowing us to improve the squad yet again.

My feeling is that by not qualifying for the europa league we have set ourselves back a couple of years....

I wouldn't say we set ourselves a couple of years by not qualifying to the thursday league, however it does help attracting players a bit. I'd much rather miss out to be honest, Lets concentrate on the domestic front for once. Time to reclaim our spot at the top4 and then the stars can come.

We are were we are,and the only players we need to be honest are those ones who are wanting to play well for us to put us back to the top and into the CL, theres only so many teams who can offer the CL etc,each year,so at this moment in time its a chance for decent players who are only driven by the need to prove themselves we want or need.

Quick question, a lot of our fans ar saying that its good we aren't in Europa cause we can concentrate on the premier league and so on, however, if you think back, can you name a team that won the premier league that wasn't competing in Europe? Yes I know that playing midweek does cause a bit of fatigue amongst the players but it also keeps all the squad players sharp and raring to go. I think the lack of european competition has set us back and will cost us in the long run. I cannot remember the last time a side that wasn't competing in Europe won the premier league. Big mistake for us to drop points in those last few games. Fifth was ours to lose and we did.

I hope I get proven wrong but I have my doubts about it.

But with the better players we'd have "because" of the europa league, that would enable us to do better in the premier league. In other words, we need those star players to get back into the CL.
Of course, playing in europe means we play more games throughout the season. This is surely an advantage is it means more players get more games and will again increase our chances of signing players as they won't be concerned about not getting much game time.

ps - "Our" spot in the top 4? we have no right to anything unless we earn it.

Your right we did lose fifth! but coming fith or indeed 4th wouldnt guarantee winning the prem, nor winning the prem would mean winning the CL, you win what you deserve to win through efforts that year,not where you finished the season before,obviously competing in europe means fininshing top 4/5 it figures you have a better chance of competing for 1st spot if your competing in the top 4.

I reckon not getting into the europa league has been a blessing. We're looking players for the long term not one or two seasons.

playing weekend to weekend next season will be brilliant for us, i think we'll finish in the top 3. i think we've got a couple of pretty big transfers up our sleeve. there seems to be a quiet confidence about the club witch i really like. and i for 1 am happy about not being in the europa league just because i fecking hate it bores the sh!t outta me

It's a blessing in disguise to not play in the europa. Every league game will be a final for us to reclaim no.19. No distractions, no excuses. Every league game will be at full strength and that can only be good for us.

Look at what happened to spurs when they played in the CL last season. Their league form took a big hit. Most of our league games were crap after european games too.

I think this is our best chance of winning the league and FA cup. No distractions, no nothing.

The Europa League is better than no European football at all. The last timne that happened was in 1999 after that God-awful season of 1998/99