StLGooner wrote:jayramfootball wrote:4th isn't a thing and never will be a thing - other than it is better than 5th and not as good as 3rd.
Just because it's good for business - i.e. CL money - adds absolutely zero to it as a sporting achievement which is all any fan should care about.
Never understood why anyone would cheer 4th place - all it means is we get to pad the bank account with some group games in the CL before getting knocked out by better teams and going into the Europa League anyway.
1st is all that counts. It's all that ever counts.
It definitely is a thing. When you miss out on the CL you also miss out on millions. If you miss out on millions you miss out on signing the best players to help your squad achieve that number 1 spot that only counts. So while yea we shouldn't be celebrating 4th like we won something, we should however be striving to get at least 4th place every season.
having the $$ is nice NEVER COMING CLOSE in the UCL is lame... so we were there, but we lost in the 1st KO stage HOW MANY TIMES??? had too look it up...
7 times in a row. 7. last 2 were 5-1 and 10-2 aggregate... truly and wholly a 2nd tier club. we need more thna 2 or 3 top class players to compete.