Anyone who didn’t want to be in the conference league. Just look at what it means to West Ham fans. I would have loved to be in this next season
Don't worry, we were joint top of the Premier League sustainability table
Anyone who didn’t want to be in the conference league. Just look at what it means to West Ham fans. I would have loved to be in this next season
Totally disagreeAnyone who didn’t want to be in the conference league. Just look at what it means to West Ham fans. I would have loved to be in this next season
Crazy to say you would rather win a league cup because its irrelevant. Its better to win a conference league than nothing which is what we've done for 15 years. We don't get to pick and choose what to win. You have to try and win anything that you're involved with. Like anyone wouldn't celebrate if we won that cup, give over. We need to be in as many cups as possible and take our chance to try and win at least one of them. How anyone can turn their nose up at any form of silverware is beyond me. It doesn't have to be one or the other in regards to cup wins or league position.
TotallyCrazy to say you would rather win a league cup because its irrelevant. Its better to win a conference league than nothing which is what we've done for 15 years. We don't get to pick and choose what to win. You have to try and win anything that you're involved with. Like anyone wouldn't celebrate if we won that cup, give over. We need to be in as many cups as possible and take our chance to try and win at least one of them. How anyone can turn their nose up at any form of silverware is beyond me. It doesn't have to be one or the other in regards to cup wins or league position.
Some sketchy maths in Trix’s post there.We have 39 players? If so that’s insane! Move on 20 then mental
It doesn't matter if it means nothing to the club and players... that is how we present ourselves in Europe... if we just had the same desire, togetherness and hunger on the pitch, we could have won the European League or Conference League alreadyAnyone who didn’t want to be in the conference league. Just look at what it means to West Ham fans. I would have loved to be in this next season
Absolutely this,Spot on. Our fan base and football club is so arrogant its unbelievable.
Reach a UCL final and anything below an FA Cup now is below us.
15 years and will be heading for 20, no problems.
I think our club is carrying more debt than any of those clubs you mention.Like it or not, football clubs are businesses - and assets that belong to individuals.
Unless the club is owned by an oligarch or an oil state with endless resources, then being well run financially will always be a driving factor, and so it should be.
If they run that side of things badly - then you really will see the ugly side of the game.
Look at the state of Barcelona. You want to end up like that? All for a trophy?
Or even worse - look at Everton, their owners have pumped in shit loads of money the club didn’t have, and are still fighting relegation every year, won jack all - and are under massive financial pressure.
Manchester Utd are probably one of the only clubs run on debt that aren’t a complete basket case. But their revenues are unlike anybody else’s.
Our owners - are doing things the right way in terms of growing the club. And boy - they’ve grown the club, no doubting that.
That’s not to say they couldn’t run it better from a football perspective. Absolutely they could. But that doesn’t mean completely going for broke - for a title you may still only have a 10% chance of winning.
I have no doubt Villa will win it next season too …
It meant a lot to Roma fans last year and means a lot to West Ham fans now. Its only in the UK that its thought of as a joke, the rest of Europe take it seriously.Totally disagree
It was a joke to everyone last year, it’s still a joke to everyone apart from West Ham fans and English media who will now say it’s great because there is an English winner.
Look at the teams they have played, they almost got relegated.
1,000,000% happy not to be in that next year.
Rather win the League cup, would have to beat at least one competent team to win that unlike this
This all started under Redknapp, who treated the Europa League like something he found on his shoe. Poch was also dismissive of it too. Ever since then, there’s been a culture at the club that anything below the CL is a waste our time. Maybe those views came as a result of Levy’s pressure to achieve top 4, but it’s been a series of wasted opportunities.What's the snobbery against the EC? Its not different from when you had European Cup, Cup Winners Cup and UEFA Cup. Did we turn our noses up when we were winning them?
And I fully expect he will.This all started under Redknapp, who treated the Europa League like something he found on his shoe. Poch was also dismissive of it too. Ever since then, there’s been a culture at the club that anything below the CL is a waste our time. Maybe those views came as a result of Levy’s pressure to achieve top 4, but it’s been a series of wasted opportunities.
The way the PL is now, you’ve got to manage your squad especially of you’re in the Europa early stages. But part of AP’s cultural reset needs to look at how we view those competitions too.