EL winners get a CL spot starting next season. Gives Pochettino enough room to have a decent league season while focusing on getting us a cup that gives us CL football. Would a manager be that dismissive of a legit route into the elite comp and that is winnable just before being publicly appointed by a club where CL football is apparently the be all and end all?
Winning the Europa league is the best of both. Some lovely silverware as well as that "coveted" champions league spot. I am pretty confident we will be going big in it next year.