For the past few years we have constantly heard arguments about whether or not its worth qualifying for the EL. Although its not a view held by myself, The general consensus seems to be that its better not to qualify or to play your B team as much as possible if you do.
We need to focus on the league, because thats how we qualify for the CL right? And we only care about the CL, they money it generates,
signing star players.
English teams have adopted this ignornant way of thinking while the Italians are outperforming us in Europe and must now be a very real
threat towards our 4th place CL spot. Juve are in the CL final. Napoli and Fiorentina still in the EL.
As the Cooefficient is based over 5 years, I imagine United's CL final appearance will soon be wiped off and Chelsea's CL win will follow soon enough.
From what I can tell, if the Italian teams continue to perform better in Europe then we are in real danger of losing the 4th place trophy a year or 2 from now.
Thats going to be real bad news for us and the league in general. We know Chelsea, City and United have bags of money.
Would our ownership remain interested in investing if the 4th spot was gone or would they look to sell?
Would potential new owners be interested? Or Sponsors?
Potential dark period ahead for the PL.