Attitude to Europa League

[BexBissel]

Europa league. It even sounds like an international bingo tournament.

Hang about. It's not that bad is it?

[G Richards]

If we exit the CL, as seems likely, then I want us to take the UEFA Cup seriously. A trophy is a trophy.

[Red Nick]

Its the best football tournament in the whole world and when we win it we will be the greatest team in the whole world

[airbags]

Its the best football tournament in the whole world and when we win it we will be the greatest team in the whole world

 

Riiight...

[BENIRL]

With it been the World next year, I can't see Torres and Gerrard beeen to bothered about it. I think their top priorty will be to get fit and stay fit for the rest of the season.

[Liverpool lad]

I wouldn't mind a trip to some remote European town to watch us play. We might be out of the Champions League, but this would be a nice chance to see us give the youngsters more time on the pitch

[Rustyjeffears]

Shit competition but the final would be a good day out if we got there. That's about the only positive I can think of...

[Little Sammy]

Whilst I know we are not mathematically out of the Champions League , it is looking pretty grim despite a decent performance tonight.

I don't give a flying fuck whether it was a decent performance or not. We weren't good enough and now we've got to contend with Comedy Thursdays.

 

Whoever thinks a second-string Lyon side which has already qualified will somehow beat Fiorentina away from home is seriously deluded.

 

Rafa should not have played Voronin for 75 minutes. That gaping chance killed us and now look at our state of affairs.

[coachpotato]

If it's a big shiny thing we should do our best to win it.

[A_S]

With over half the group games completed, these teams are currently in Europa League-qualifying positions:

 

Bayern

CSKA Moskva

Marseille (who are only behind AC Milan and Real Madrid by a point, ie these two aren't both safe by a long way yet!)

Atlético

Liverpool

Barcelona (Didn't they win a couple of trophies recently?)

Stuttgart

Standard

 

Some of the teams mentioned above can be easily mentioned in the same breath as LFC in terms of history and current ability (yep, some of the current squad would not look at all out of place in other 'lower' teams around Europe).

 

Add to this that it could even mean the Reds taking on the shite in European competition, I would like to think no good Red would want losing that being rubbed in their face by the BS for all time.

 

As someone mentioned in a post re the Carling Cup, if we don't care about losing it, we shouldn't give a fuck if we were to win it. 4 years without a trophy is a long time.

 

I say if this is what is to happen and we do not qualify for the CL knockout stage, let's go and win the fucking thing and get some joy back into the place!

[Ted]

A competition that has been seriously devalued and undermined by UEFA since we won it.

 

I'd rather just go out of Europe all together and concentrate on getting fourth.

[Lefti]

might as well win it, its silverware at the end of the day.

[Paulie Dangerously]

We're bigger than this sham of a competition. It's like eating a big mac for 5 years and then being forced to eat a regular cheese burger. You don't want it.

 

No prestige, no money, no point

[Paulie Dangerously]

I wouldn't mind a trip to some remote European town to watch us play. We might be out of the Champions League, but this would be a nice chance to see us give the youngsters more time on the pitch

 

Benitez wouldn't play the youngsters though. If we ended up in this competition he'd try and win it playing the strongest team possible. The only time he'd play youngsters is in the league cup which we're already out of

[Cath]

At this moment in time my liver,my purse and my general humour could do with us being out of Europe all together, but Hamburg in the spring sounds ace.

 

[RobbieOR]

Imagine if Barça got knocked out. Its a real possibility if they dont win against Inter Milan.

[House of Dirk]

Won't games get changed to Sundays ??

 

If we are nice to Baconface.

[JMARKH]

When we won it in 2001 it was packed with quality teams like Roma and Bracelona but now since 4 teams can go in the Champions League it has been diluted with the likes of Everton and Fulham. Fuck that it is wank, lets play the reserves.

[The Golden Eel]

Yeh, im mentally prepared for this already despite us not being mathematically out. I reckon it could be a decent enough diversion given that we've more or less fuck all else left to play for. It's something to win anyway and if we're in it i'll be hastily backtracking from my assertion that it's a Mickey Mouse trophy and be hoping that we win it.

[Whelan]

Its the Danni Minogue trophy!

[Malarkey]

Imagine if Barça got knocked out. Its a real possibility if they dont win against Inter Milan.

 

Yeah. But Barca will beat Inter. Because Inter are shit and are bottom of the group.

 

Plus, I concur with what Liverpool Lad said. You can't beat a good European away. So I'd love to go to some places where I've never been before.

 

But it'd still seem a million miles away from the likes of the Bernabeu etc from last season.

 

A trophy is a trophy. We should still go out to win it and I'd be pretty pissed off it Rafa takes this competition lightly.

[Ted]

Inter are top of that group, Mick.

[Monster Masch]

I disagree with that GC.

 

A lot of our present injuries don't seem long term & if we can scramble wins at home to Brum & City we would be about 6/7 points behind the leaders with this potential line up & loads of games to go.

 

Reina

Johnson , Carra , Agger , Aurelio

Masch Aquilani

Kuyt , Gerrard , Benny

Torres

 

It frustrates me that the whole attitude around our club is we have no hope of winning the league. If united were in our position, you never count them out. Massive games in Birmingam and Man City.

[TheDrowningMan]

Let's see where we are in the league. If, come January, we're in great form and looking like we can close the gap (if - and it's a big if - it's no bigger than it is at present) then there is no way on Earth that we should risk players in an effectively meaningless competition like the Europa League.

[J-V]

A competition that has been seriously devalued and undermined by UEFA since we won it.

 

I'd rather just go out of Europe all together and concentrate on getting fourth.

 

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