Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
I never was optimistic about this season, the Europa League is not an excuse, it's a reason why we are going to struggle, Everton have a far bigger squad than us, but by the time they were out of the Europa League last season they were in a relegation battle. Sam got them out of it and into the top ten, but not while they were jetting all over Europe every Thursday
At this level as well you have to run just to keep up, but if you stand still like we have done, you get left behind. We haven't strengthened the team, and we're playing in a Mickey Mouse competition every Thursday instead of working on the training pitch.

Anyone who didn't think this would adversely affect us was living in dreamland. Imo.
We were not playing in the Europa league the last five games of the 2017/2018 season Sinkov and the cracks had well and truly appeared even then.This form did not start this season.