timeEd32
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True, Chelsea more likely to screw us over.
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Welp, can say goodbye to extra places. Need 5th to guarantee Europa League Need 6th to guarantee Europe (+ Man City FA Cup win to get Europa League) Need 7th + a City FA Cup win to get Conference League * Note: Conference League would put us in a qualifier; not direct entry to the group stage.
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It's so rare I'm impressed by Doku despite thinking he's going to do something every time.
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Gordon's December gets a write-off from me. He, and many others, shouldn't have even been playing some of those games. No legs.
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Someone on here a couple weeks ago made the point that a final decision on the training ground may be linked to a decision about the stadium. It's very possible there's some truth in that.
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I get your point, but there's a big difference between riding some good fortune in a single game (away to a good team no less) and over-performing all of the underlying stats for two years running.
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Really need Arsenal to win. I don’t have much faith in West Ham.
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Literally can't be worse than having a keeper who is seemingly stuck in knee deep mud at all times.
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I've wondered before if I'll still be a lunatic watching NUFC when I'm older. This gives me hope.
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Very roughly speaking I think a Europa League R16 appearance would be approximately equal to winning the Conference League. One other pretty sizable difference is in coefficient points. Both give 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw from the group stage onwards (same as CL). But the Europa League bonuses are double the points -- 4 for group winners (vs. 2), 2 for group runners-up (vs. 1), and 1 for every knockout round (vs. only 1 point bonuses for SF/Final).
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This is just prize money. All three competitions have the same revenue components: participation, coefficient, TV pool, and performance prize. Then there's the additional matchday income as you said.
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This seems quite perfect if we think a loan is the right move.
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That £12.5m is just the prize money portion. It's an estimate but West Ham got approx £19-20m in total for the Conference League. The year before they got about £27m from reaching the Europa League semifinal. Arsenal got about £21m from last season's Europa League Round of 16.
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I thought the pressure of not being able to have a single slip up would get to Arsenal and potentially Liverpool. Certainly didn’t think it would happen to both today.
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That doesn’t help the drunken spending, but it’s not the core reason for the never ending arm’s race.