The tournament has been effectively devalued by the changes in the formats.
Especially when the two worst teams in the EPL (aside from the relegation fodder) are effectively playing for a spot in the UCL.
I hate this. The idiotic jammy fucks.
If Tottenham do get to the finals, I hope they win.
benefits from that. I don’t see them beating Bodo Glimt though.
- Tottenham winning a European competition ahead of Arsenal (especially if Arsenal don’t go to the finals).
- United getting fucked over
- Arne the Red getting his resume padded over before his eventual sacking
You have to be making a legitimate attempt to win the ball or you can still be sent off.
Edit: sorry just realized this was already answered
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I don’t think CL qualification will right the ship for Utd or even set them on that course. Their recruitment is awful, their coach is shite, their owners don’t have a clue.
They’ll just be slightly more expensively shite.
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Honestly don’t think any player with their head screwed on straight will look at United and think “wow I want to be a part of this project” just because they fluke the EL. All it’ll cause is them wasting time chasing unattainable targets all summer before settling on someone on ridiculous wages. Probably for someone they could have gotten without CL football as well.
It won’t right the ship for United.
I just don’t want them having any positives whatsoever.
I’d rather the europa and conference leagues stick to the old formats where teams from champions league ranked 24 to 28 or so drop down to the knock off rounds. Assuming that UEFA wants to keep the current UCL format
This format of the European competitions totally sucks.
Winning the UEFA cup and then the Europa till now had a certain amount of prestige. But that’s totally devalued when teams as bad as United get to go through to the finals despite being total clusterfucks
Or the teams who lose out in the playoffs in the champions league get an entry into the knockout round of the europa.
Think they always used to do this? Fondly recalling Everton dropping down to the UEFA Cup after losing the CL qualifier, then losing the UEFA Cup qualifier as well.
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It could be their “Sevilla” moment.
It’s been removed for the recent changes. I don’t mean the playoffs for qualifying for the CL group stage. I meant the 17th to 24th teams playing in this current format in a 2 leg knockout.
The losers surely can get pushed to the Europa
Arne Slot, he was asked about the strength of Premier League clubs, in the context of bottom-half clubs Manchester United and Tottenham looking set to meet in the Europa League final
"The number 14 and 16 in the Premier League have so much more funds than the number one in Holland, for example, so it’s not a complete surprise that teams – and we have many of them in the Premier League - have so much more funds than everywhere around the world except for the Paris St-Germain, Barcelona, Real Madrid and a few others.
"It is not a surprise that English teams go all the way into Europe, especially in the Europa League and Conference League because they are in a different league when it comes to money compared to other teams. The Champions League is more balanced so it’s a big achievement from Arsenal that they are still in the semi-final.
"It tells you how much money there is in this league and how strong this league is but we all knew this. We didn’t need this season to know that the Premier League is by far the most competitive league in the world.
“There are not many leagues in the world where the numbers 15, 16, 17 – because of coincidence it’s Manchester United and Tottenham who are normally not there – but even the teams that are normally there have players that can play for the numbers one, two and three and you don’t see this in any other league.”
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Gary Medal, as the captain of the sexiest/trendiest international team of the time (The peak Sanchez/Vidal era Chile) and key player for a Seville side expected to challenge for honours in Spain and in Europe left to play for relegation certainties Cardiff City.
It really is a perfect illustration of the astonishing financial disparity that exists between the Prem and the other leagues.
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I had a lot of qualifiers in the statement… potentially start to right the ship.
In all likelihood even if they get to the CL they will blow it as the issues there are myriad. But I don’t want them getting any sort of lifeline back to the big time!
I’m on the Spurs bus for this one. Ange is a good red.
Ange has always won a trophy in his second season.
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Looks like we gonna have 2 underachievers of the PL, or maybe this was always their true selves, in the finals.
In a twisted way, I maybe want the manures to win the cup. Amorim will then talk big. The fans will rise up and talk big. The owners will say they are confident Amorim can build on this and comes up and spends 200mil backing him, he sucks, the team starts losing and is still midtable by December, fans start abusing Amorim and he gets sacked before January. Loves seeing them getting stuck in that cycle of hope and disappointment in perpetuality.
Or maybe not, maybe all they need is to lose the finals to an injustice goal by Spurs after dominating the match to talk big for next season.
I really don’t think he’s good if I’m honest.
Nothing suggests that from what I’ve seen so false hope might somewhat be good for everyone who likes to see them fail.
Spurs and Man Utd is a potential mouth watering European final according to TNT sports
And not two very average English teams battling it out for a secondary European trophy.
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Why is the final for this on a Wednesday, when all season they have played on Thursday evenings? 
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