Top 4 just became even more difficult

Orrrr....

Spurs are out of form, inconsistent, have no momentum and look more likely to drop points in the coming weeks.

Their players' morale will have taken a hit and they will have lost some of their motivation to train quite as hard and impress the boss with a view to appearing in a European final.

One game a week in the last few weeks of the season will not help the players' focus.

There are two ways to look at all of this. Player fitness and injuries (which if correctly managed don't have to be a huge issue) aside, I think the whole argument about the damage European competition can do to a league campaign is massively overblown.

The ropey looks there for the taking

comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
comment by bertrand small (U19359)
posted 8 hours, 40 minutes ago
As each season passes it makes 99 look an even greater achievement especially with the constant whinging from all areas including managers about fixture pile ups. Great to play and see more games.
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99 is the perfect example of how being in all comps can work for you, momentum can carry us through.

yeah it might blow up in our faces but I'd rather have a go at everything than get knocked out nearly
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It's as good an argument as the one in the OP

Managers love to excusemonger. It's what they do nowadays.

Instead of saying, "Isn't it great that we can celebrate our progress in all four competitions; we can compete for four titles - why not?"

They say, "We could do without this. There are too many games and this will impact our chances of competing for any title."

They do this to protect themselves from a bitter and bloodthirsty press, impatient, trigger happy directors and overdemanding, unrealistic fans.

You read LVG's words on his experience at United, you look at what happened when Ranieri was appointed and what's just happened to him, you look at how Wenger is treated by some Arsenal fans, and for me it's a great shame how we treat managers in England.

Probably reflective of British society more widely, but there's zero respect for the work that football mangers do.

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We managed it in 2013 with an unbalanced first team squad and no depth.

Jose has won the uefa cup and the Europa already. We couldn't hope for a better manager in it besides maybe Unai Emery. Jose has also won 2 CL's too which gives him the edge though.

I'm confident we can win it. We may not but we shouldn't fear anyone left.

This season I feel we'll win the Europa, the league cup and get top 4

I'm more and more okay about us binning off the FA cup tbh as long as the first 3 objectives are met.

If we do get the first 3 it would be a superb first season for Jose considering Chelsea and Liverpool (who I think will be 1 and 2) didn't have any European distractions

I am looking forward to seeing what next season’s top 4 will look like, with Chelsea, Spurs, City, Arsenal, Liverpool, United, Everton, Southampton all not being able to make it in due to having European football. Do you think we will see Championship or even League 1 sides in the top 4 next season as they have less tough fixtures to contend with so will be easier for them?

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teams aspire to get into Europe then whinge & moan about fixture pile up tiredness etc. Well don't try & qualify for Europe then.