With Juve in the CL final & Napoli & Fiorentina reaching at least the semis of the Europa league it will be interesting to see what happens to the Italian clubs UEFA coefficient.
Honestly would buy Bale from Madrid solely for his safety now. Lad will be scapegoated even though he was the only one actually trying in attack.
Its all about hype. 18 goals is a pretty damn good return for a WF in his first Season in Spain. But the media insist he has flopped.
It's like a poisoned chalice that Europey spot. Nobody really wants it because there are so many games to get to the final. Even the lure of a Champions League spot for the winners doesn't really seem like an incentive to try and be in it.
It softens the blow of dropping into it now and probably gives those teams more incentive to try and win it. Still ****e to be in the group stages though.
For the clubs who drop into it, it's a like a back handed compliment - 'you're not good enough for the champions league, but you can still qualify to play in it' ****e competition really, they should really just limit the number of clubs and go straight to a knockout competition. Then it would be interesting
Following Bbc live and seems cesc has been sent off for some handbags, and kicking the ball at the refs head!
Just seen the replay and it was pretty funny. He hit one of the west Brom players but seemed to regret it as soon as he did it lol. Then in the second half terry has taken out berahino, last man, goal scoring opportunity with a late challenge where he doesn't touch the ball and doesn't even get a yellow... The ref is having a bit of a mad one.
Berahino, maybe we should be looking at him, pretty sure we could sign him if we really wanted to, I think he should be looked at as an option to be brought in if we can't buy a mega world class striker, Berahino isn't in that category, but he has shown he can score a lot of goals in the EPL, and Giroud does need someone to share the load, and Berahino could help in that department. If we can have 2 strikers that bag us 45-50 goals in a season that will be great. I can see Giroud getting 20-25 goals next season, add Berahino who can get 15-20 and you're looking at such numbers.