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Competition UEFA Europa League - 2024/2025

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Where do we finish in this comp?

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KentuckyHotSpur said:
Get Dom, Romero, VdV back and I think we have huge chance.

League position means next to nothing in comparison. Rest players as needed in PL games. Attack this competition.
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We do need to get into europe next season - players join to play and earn big salaries which european competition delivers.

If we win EL we get CL next year which is great - but as runners up no european competition assured.

PL will get 5 CL slots next season (6 if either Spurs or ManU wins EL and I think if an English club wins CL) so 6th and 7th will get EL, so europe via PL still reachable.

So we need to use the squad wisely to finish as well as we can in both EL and PL - if we get Solanke, VDV, Romero and even Richarlison back within next few weeks we have the squad to do that. Be good to win EL and get back into top 6 of PL for example
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
All of this talk about that we are going to just waltz to a final is having me like this:

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Not saying that we shouldn't go in with the mentality that we can win this.

But there's a difference between confidence and arrogance that we tend to have an issue with balancing.
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We likely won't play a match until the SF at least, but final most likely, which we wouldn't be favored in.

That said, this squad and manager lost to Ipswich when fully healthy - it's still hard to see us winning.

But, I live in hope. We couldn't have asked for a better bracket, I don't think.
 
McCOYS said:
They're second and just one point behind the leaders according to my search engine.
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revival then, were struggling last season I think

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Spursidol said:
We do need to get into europe next season - players join to play and earn big salaries which european competition delivers.

If we win EL we get CL next year which is great - but as runners up no european competition assured.

PL will get 5 CL slots next season (6 if either Spurs or ManU wins EL and I think if an English club wins CL) so 6th and 7th will get EL, so europe via PL still reachable.

So we need to use the squad wisely to finish as well as we can in both EL and PL - if we get Solanke, VDV, Romero and even Richarlison back within next few weeks we have the squad to do that. Be good to win EL and get back into top 6 of PL for example
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I think the league is done. We'd need to win nearly all our games to get back into the top 6! Go full strenght in Europe and rotate in the league has to be the play.

The worst case scenario isn't that bad. We'll cruise top 4 next year without Europe
 
ThePreacher said:
You think.
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I think we've got more chance of buying Dubai.

I loved John Crace's little dig today:

All is well in my football world again. I realise now that my brief falling out of love with the current Spurs side was not born out of despair. Quite the opposite: it came from a place of hope. Despite recognising that the team was totally lacking in confidence, tactically inept and generally useless, a part of me clung on to the belief that maybe, just maybe, this year we might win something.

Now that this is to all intents and purposes an impossibility, I feel a sense that normal service has been returned. To play an entire 90 minutes in the second leg of the Carabao Cup – the most important game of the season – without managing a single shot on target was a piece of performance art. As was the fourth-round FA Cup tie against Aston Villa three days later.

My friend Matthew spent hours on a coach with his daughter to get to Birmingham, only for Spurs to concede a goal inside a minute thanks to a ridiculous goalkeeping error. These are the moments Tottenham fans live for. All of which made Spurs’ drab 1-0 win over an even worse Manchester United side agreeably pointless. A classic in non-entertainment as there is no prospect of relegation or qualification for Europe. Just 13 more league games of no consequence. I felt I had my Spurs mojo back.
 
Spursidol said:
revival then, were struggling last season I think

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Yeah it looks like they finished eighth last season.
 
Don Pedro said:
I think the league is done. We'd need to win nearly all our games to get back into the top 6! Go full strenght in Europe and rotate in the league has to be the play.

The worst case scenario isn't that bad. We'll cruise top 4 next year without Europe
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Not so. Newcastle in 7th has averaged 1.64 points per game to get to 41 points.

Spurs are 11 points behind with 13 games left to play. So mathematically still very achievable, and foolish to give up on PL until we are much deeper into EL

So atm, plenty to play for, just a question of rotating the squad we have available (and by 2nd leg v AZ it sounds as it we have all but Dragusin back)
 
Don Pedro said:
I think the league is done. We'd need to win nearly all our games to get back into the top 6! Go full strenght in Europe and rotate in the league has to be the play.

The worst case scenario isn't that bad. We'll cruise top 4 next year without Europe
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What makes you think we'll "cruise" into the top four next year if the fraud is still here?
 
Alkmaar home tickets £35 adults, £10 kids. 3 ticketing points for attending match. Autopay in operation. Ticket share in operation for those on autopay. Ticket exchange may open for ST holders if match sells out.
 
_mehstg said:
Fly out 21st, Fly back 22nd... I've booked mine even though I don't have a ticket yet

21st LGW - BIO 9:40 arrives at 12:40 Local time
Match kicks off 8pm local time
Full day in Bilbao on 22nd then fly back to LGW 21:35 lands 22:25
Paid 302 each but in the last half an hour the price is now 371
Advanced algorithm being used based on search criteria that sets ticket price higher and higher... CUNTS!!!

Another alternative is Britany Ferries (Portsmouth to Bilbao) ... takes about a day and a half
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several other airports around surely?

Could even do Bayonne or Birritz just across the border
 
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