Only one cup matters though.
Which?
The Champions League! I’ve seen us win the FA Cup. It was a lot of fun, I’m not that pressed about it anymore.
Entitled to your stance, but I don’t agree. I like winning FA Cups.
I would be delighted with 85+ Points + Cup double
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I like it too but given the choice of prioritizing one over the other without knowing the draw, I’d rather see us build a team for European competition.
That makes no sense, they aren’t in conflict with each other and I never seen this ‘prioritising’ thing work for us ever.
@Joshua when Arsenal win the wrong trophy
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I mean in terms of building a squad. You said you want depth to do better in cups. I agree we need more depth but buying or promoting depth to do better in the FA cup is very different than depth for a European competition.
I’m not saying the club should prioritize in terms of Player A can’t start in the FA Cup ever or we “play the kids” in the League Cup.
You brought up depth and I agree that we need more depth, but I think the type of depth we’d need to go further in Europe is different than the type of depth we’d need to go further in domestic cups (depending on the draw). That’s why I said I wanted the club to prioritize building a squad for Europe.
Okay, erm. You watched the same games I did right? You saw that West Ham match in the Carabao Cup? Even Liverpool we started Nelson.
More good players we can start in those games is good and increases our chances.
Also I should note that teams don’t fuck about with line-ups in big CL games. Depth helps there but you’re thinking of it the wrong way around. No club rotates in those games except for dead fixtures.
We’re talking past each other. Depth doesn’t automatically mean rotation. It means options. It means we’ve got Neto on the bench instead of Reiss Nelson. Well probably not Neto because he’d be injured, but you get my point. That’s depth the depth I’m talking about. There are good players who you could rotate into domestic cup games which is fine. But then there are players you could rotate into a CL second leg starting XI or bring them off the bench with 20 minutes to go when you’re tied and heading into extra time. That’s the depth I want.
No it’s not they’ll be exactly the same players
we are butt hurt because it was United winning the FA Cup. They are catching our record.
If it was Coventry, it was Leicester, Wolves… it is just a totally different conversation.
League should be the priority, together with CL.
Of course it’s different. The talent required to compete in the CL is higher. We could buy players good enough for the Champions League and that would give us the talent to progress in domestic cups.
But you said only one cup matters? I can’t keep up with you. We’re back to what I originally said.
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When’s this agreement gonna be sorted behnchod Fabrixio
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After another 200 tweets
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25 new posts and we still aren’t any closer. Make that 26 for the next sucker that opens this thread in the hope of an update.
It’s not like I’m saying anything complicated.
I can recap it for you it:
I care more about progress in the CL than domestic cups.
I want the club to sign players that give us quality depth required to progress in the CL.
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CL>FACup.
I’m on the west coast now.
Sod that nonsense of potentially having to get up at 4am only to get knocked out in the 3rd round by the likes of Welcome to Wrexham.
My first post in this chain was about having depth to do better in cups, you excluding two of them to go on about the CL, just for you to circle back saying to want to sign players to do better in the CL, which is not in opposition to what I’m saying? Having depth helps on all fronts. Which again I will repeat. In the important matches you won’t see much rotation.
Which anyway doesn’t matter since you clarified. Progress in the CL? What metric is that? I’ll take cup wins personally.
Semi knockout annoys me just as much as Quarter finals do, I should know. I remember the United match in 2009.