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[Tomo 21,737]

On 19/03/2016 at 10:41 PM, petre.ispirescu said:

Every result is ok as long as we stay away from Europa League. Conte needs a quiet season with a lot of training time in between matches and no meaningless trips throughout Europe. 

I'm a bit torn with Europa, on one side I think exactly what you have just posted but on the flip side it could be a good competition to give our best young players extended minutes and a season without Chelsea playing in midweek will be boring as hell.

[chelseafan26 293]

2 hours ago, Tomo said:

I'm a bit torn with Europa, on one side I think exactly what you have just posted but on the flip side it could be a good competition to give our best young players extended minutes and a season without Chelsea playing in midweek will be boring as hell.

My sentiments exact, mate.

Both Pros and Cons of Europa hold a lot of merit.

But I am for Europa only because of the young players we have. If we get Europa, I hope Roman treats it as a building field for youth like Traore, Kenedy, RLC, Baba, Musonda, Ake rather than forcing Conte to play deadwood like mikel, oscar, Cahill in the competition.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

6 hours ago, Tomo said:

I'm a bit torn with Europa, on one side I think exactly what you have just posted but on the flip side it could be a good competition to give our best young players extended minutes and a season without Chelsea playing in midweek will be boring as hell.

Yeah I get you, but even so, I'd rather Conte prepare an EPL game for a full six or seven days with the entire squad than have to train three days for an away game in Switzerland or Czech Republic, then come back home and in the remaining three days to get ready for Arsenal or City. Plus it'd help him accomodate with English teams faster, would have more time for video analysis and stuff. 

[cosmicway 1,333]

On 20/3/2016 at 4:38 PM, BlueLion said:

The EL is actually a very entertaining competition (the quality is nowhere near as good, but the games are usually more fun to watch) - the only thing people have against it is the Thursday night aspect. Thursday-Sunday is a very difficult transition, especially with the long-distance travel. If it was played on the same days as the CL, people would be more into it. 

Yeah, but when we had Raffa he said "it's coals too Newcastle if you win this - no prizes".
Once upon a time it was better - because only one team went to champions cup.
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