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    Our most used players have played 10-20 games more than the most used Spurs players, in that sense you are right. However, Spurs play a high intensity tactic with a high press, while we have a more low/medium intensity tactic. The result seems to be that both set of players are burned out at this stage in the season. Next season with Spurs in Europe, their players will be burned out at an earlier stage in the season, expect them to be mid table. We need to recruit well in the summer, because it is not sustainable that our best players play 50+ matches in a season. Both because burn out at the end of the season and also to avoid injuries because of fatigue and tiredness.
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    If you chill and don’t care about the outcome, how do you get any enjoyment out of the journey?
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    Can Spurs even beat Burnley? It could be all over by the time we play Liverpool.
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    I guess Opta think there is a 90% chance Spurs will bottle it too.
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    Not really, they need to win their last two, and Nottingham loses their last to go one point clear of Nottingham.
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    Our best players have played about 10 more matches than ManC best players this season. That is one of the reason our form have dropped off lately, while ManC is better late in the season than in the start. we need a larger and better squad for next season, and some luck when it comes to injuries.
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    Rumours have it that ManU and Bayer Munich will swap managers, ten Hag to Munich and Tuchel to Manchester. I would love it to happen, but if it does happen, whoever is in charge at the two clubs needs their head examined.
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    Good news, one of ManU, Newcastle and Chelsea will not get European football next season. Bad news two of them will. 2/3 sad, 1/3 happy.
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    I don’t understand why we voted no. The vote was only about the anchoring, not the 70%/85% since those are UEFA rules. The anchoring would not make a difference against the top six, we would still have the low revenue. Actually it would help against ManU and ManC, since they are the only two teams that would have to limit their spending because of anchoring, since they have that high revenue. Originally it was reported on Sky that we were against it because teams in Premier League not in Europe could spend £466 mill, while we could only spend 70% of revenue. That would have made sense, except it isn’t true, or maybe even the club misunderstood the rules. The more I learn about this, the more baffling is the position of the club on this. It simply make no sense to vote no for Aston Villa. We are years and years away to be able to get a revenue that would limit our spending because of anchoring.
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    There are two caps on squad cost, the UEFA cap that say cost of the squad have to be 70% of revenue and the Premier League cap that says the squad cost have to be limited to £466mill. Our current revenue is around £200mill, meaning we can spend £140mill on the squad. While other Premier League team that haven’t qualified for Europe can spend £466mill. To be able to spend as much as the rest of the Premier League teams we have to raise our revenue to £665mill.
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    Back in the days before Champions League, there were three cups: European cup - for League winners only Cup winners cup - for Cup winners only UEFA cup - for losers. Of course the cup winners cup was more prestigious than the UEFA cup, after all it was for teams that had won something. Also the winner of the cup winners cup qualified for the European super cup. What we have now is: Champions League: top teams in the top European leagues Europa League: a mix of not so top teams from top European leagues, top teams from weaker European Leagues. Conference League: the rest
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    Actually there are 36 teams, so 12 teams get knocked out. Top 8 teams go directly into round of 16, where they are seeded. Teams 9 to 16 are drawn against teams 17 to 24 in a qualifying round before the winners are drawn against the top 8 teams. I believe we could manage get into the top 16, that provides a good chance to get into the round of 16.
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    A chicken and egg question. Unless you have Champions League and the income that comes with it, you wouldn’t be able to attract and pay for the players to build the squad required for Champions League. If we qualify for Champions League this season, the next and the one after that, I think by then we would be ready for Champions League.
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    If we can match whatever Spurs do against Chelsea, Liverpool and ManC in our last 3 games, we get 4th place, either it is 0 points, 4 points or 9 points. I think a win against Brighton will be enough.
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    Chelsea are chasing 6th place and Europa League. If they beat Spurs they are 3 points behind ManU. I’m 80% confident that Chelsea would at least manage a draw on Thursday. If we then manage to beat Brighton on Sunday, we would be 9 or 10 points ahead of Spurs when they play Liverpool.
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    Last season there were a lot of fans that wanted us to finish 8th to avoid the Conference League, because it wasn’t a real European competition, and it would distract us from getting in to one of the real ones. The real competition everybody wants to play in is Champions League. Europa League is a knockout competition to qualify for the real deal. If you are speaking to a Newcastle fan it is a must mentioning since they lost their final to Troyes that year. Who has even heard about Troyes?
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    2001 - Last time we won an European trophy, and we did progress to the semi and final.
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    1989/90 I think.
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    I assume everybody is following the Spurs match, but people should have a look at the other match that is played now. It looks like summer vacation has started early in Brighton, hopefully they still are on the beaches next Sunday.
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    That Spurs get trashed today is no surprise. It is harder to predict how they will do against Chelsea and Liverpool. Since they play both away, we could hope they lose both. However, we know how fragile the Chelsea defence are, so that match can go both ways. When it comes to Liverpool, they have lost form the last few weeks and their internal problems are well known, it’s not impossible that Spurs return from Anfield with 3 points. If Spurs do well in the two other matches this week, we most likely need 6 more points. On the other hand if Spurs loses them both, we have secured 4th place.
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    UCL is the promised land, without a doubt. Of course qualifying once and then never again is not the magic bullet, as Newcastle is an example of. UCL provides massive prize money, more exposure that provides more lucrative sponsorship deals, more worldwide fans that increases merchandise sales. All that resulting in more revenue for the club, that if invested wisely can result in better players and improved results. If we qualify for UCL this year, it is the first small step towards a better future for the club. The next step would be to qualify for UCL next season too, and then the season after that and so on. If we do that we will at some point have the revenue and squad capable of chasing titles.
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    As long as Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool beat Spurs over the next 7 days, the point to day is crucial.
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    Isn’t over yet, it feels like this half have been going on for hours
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    Let’s agree he is on the pitch. If he is playing or not is debatable.
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    One more in the start of 2nd half should kill of Chelsea
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