Took them 14 years and 2 billion Euro but they finally won it.
Some of the players didn’t even touch the trophy but the sheik cunt could not wait any longer to pose with it.
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The problem really is that there really are no easy matches in the PL anymore. No matches where a manager can rotate players and save them for the CL.
This PL win was a right damn slog.
A manager could use the subs more wisely, non?
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Yeah, even the Southampton game in between the two PSG games was not a stroll. Maybe we made it harder than it should have been because we initially treated it as the stroll we wanted it to be.
I think the inexperience of Arne w.r.t the English league told then. He would hopefully be much more better equipped next season.
He needs to rotate players more to keep more players match fit and still find a way to balance so that the team’s efficiency doesn’t come down
It’s about prioritising as much as people May hate it I think the right team went out in the FA cup. I think the league cup has too many ties and it’s one I do hope we consider next season.
No one’s winning 4 trophies in a season. Well the four trophies.
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If you look at the run of 3 big games in the 2 weeks leading up to the first leg, despite how big the games were to our season, we did still rotate a fair amount through them.
The reality is I’d doubt PSG had 3 such challenging games in the league all season, and we had 3 in a week leading up to playing them. It’s a draining schedule running up to the biggest game of the season no matter how you approach it.
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Once again Paris policing shown to be shitty
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In France there’s no in-between it’s either peaceful or a riot as soon as the police are involved. 
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My point exactly. And as Slot himself noted, he was going to see if there was any advantage to finishing in the top bracket. There was none!
We put in too much into the group stage. Throw in the PL and Cup games and we ended up playing PSG at the absolute wrong time
Its not the rotation per se but how we paced ourselves. By the time PSG came around our performance graph was at best plateauing…
There’s a definite advantage to finishing in the top eight - you don’t have to play the extra playoff round. But where you finish in the top eight is totally irrelevant.
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I’m not even disagreeing with you there.
The idea of a club throwing matches to finish in a more favourable position doesn’t sit right with me.
This was something beyond our control
Right, but what does that have to do with games we played, and mostly cantered through, in Sept, October, and Novemeber in the CL compared to the brutal 2 weeks we had in domestic competition leading up to the first leg?
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Well those two weeks were quite decisive in the overall scheme of things
I think the competition proved clearly that there’s no significant advantage
I’m not sure how you could conclude that from my points above
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Of course, but what are you going to do. That was the way the season was served up to us and we had to work our way through that portion of the season, and did so while making a decent number of changes through those games.
The bigger point though is that compared to the effort we put in to navigate the CL group stage, which was a relative canter, most of which was months earlier, the CL campaign itself is just something I cannot see as having contributed to the state we were in by the time we played the,
It all adds up. You time your build up to ensure continuous growth and to peak at the right time