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Yeah, I'm with you. Villa HAVE to miss out, they're a really good team now, way better squad than us with tons of players to choose from. Getting into the Champions League again will just make them even stronger.

I understand nerves but we basically have done everything we could possibly do bar winning every game. There's nothing more we can ask. If all our rivals win all their games by multiple goals then we'll be in a conversation. Otherwise we're doing it.

I can only see 2 comfortable wins for Villa tbh but I don't think that'll make a difference to us qualifying. 1 win and we're in, 2 wins and we've got 2nd place

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You'll feel a lot better when we give Arsenal a taste of their own medicine on Sunday afternoon, don't worry.

That’s why i just have a fear regarding a last day twist. Villa are currently in the worst league position of the four of us (NUFC, Man City, Chelsea, Villa) yet most will say they are the ones who are going to make it due to their two remaining fixtures. So that leaves two spots for us Man City and Chelsea. They’ve got better fixtures than us IMO. It’s in our hands and we’ve two bites at it so can’t complain. Amazing season. Was just weird looking at the league table after the weekend feeling not that much better off than before it!

2 wins in 11 games. A fair few draws but other than Forest, they've been losing to the other top 6 teams. We'll be fine.

Stop me if I'm wrong, but if Chelsea or Villa lose on Friday, we're more or less there?

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We had an awful injury record with a small squad and got 60 points. Thats our floor. 60 points. Keep what we have. Add 3 or 4 quality players. Maybe 1 or 2 youngsters and we could challenge. Had we had Tonali firing all season, we would’ve got close to mounting a title challenge this season alone. We need bodies. But not 6 or 7.

We’re at around 95% income vs ‘allowed’ spend

Why is Arteta even considered an elite manager?

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Because the quality gap between starters and the rest is too big? One of these summers there will need to be a large amount of turnover to get the squad ready for consistent European campaigns.

Will be some regen. Bukayo Lewis-Nketiah, or such like.

That won’t happen if we qualify for the CL. We would have just qualified for the CL and won a cup. Why would we make wholesale changes?

Think Any PL side in the top 12 would have a decent crack at making the Europa league final this season. They wouldn’t have got to the final last year with Atalanta and Leverkusen. It’s genuinely harder to win a domestic cup this season. At least 3 of our 4 wins against Spurs/Man U were ‘live’ games. We smashed a live Man U at OT. We are good. But that is insane.

Other than the fact there's a few players leaving this summer, I'm not sure 3/4 additions would cut it. That would just replace what we lose. I could easily see 7/8 players coming in this summer. Not all first team starters obviously. But all players who will be in the matchday squad. Willock, Longstaff, Wilson, Trippier, Barnes, Dubravka, Vlach, Targett, Pope (if we bring in a #1) All players linked away or out of contract. That's NINE players that need replacing potentially.

Rice being out would be excellent. I guess Merino would've replaced him again but he's out as well so hopefully they've got Zinchenko or some youth player in there instead. Would make up for us missing Big Joe.

Why the fuck has the FA Cup final been shoehorned into this weekend ? and then a daft 4:30pm kick off ?

Adding 3-4 and keeping who we want will give us the squad. I think we are 3 quality players away from being as good Arsenal and Liverpool. 1 pacy quality defender. Another bionic midfielder with ability. And another attacker - preferably a creator like a left footed Cunha. With that we could win a 85 point league imo. In fact - if we ‘just’ signed a Cunha/Palmer level player. Another top quality technician that wants the ball at all times. It would add another dimension and we could have a challenge. This is why I’m so keen on CL. The best teams in the division are only 1 or 2 quality players above us. We’ll have a small squad and need a bit of luck. I think every team apart from peak City need that bit of luck with injuries.

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If Man Utd have LOST the final then I can see them putting in a good performance against Villa and maybe getting a point. If they win that they'll be checked out completely. Villa will walk over them.

I think 3 of the right level this season might have had us challenging or at least giving the top two a fright. But not with CL / Europa and playing twice a week again.

They have put all their focus on Europa. Think its an open question how they will respond after that is over. In all seriousness, they cant be that shit when they made it to the Europa League final. Got to have something going on.