Sociedad look like a typical Spanish team that usually goes far in this competition or even wins it. And with the final down the road in Bilbao they’ll be targeting it.
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Sociedad. If we’re not going to win it get it over with quickly.
El Dante
Les Ferdinand
Either. They can worry about getting us.
ricky2tricky4city
Dimitar Berbatov
Looking at that I think I want AZ...that side of the draw looks softer...plus It'll put United v Sociedad on the other side.
Gazza Dazzla
Christian Ziege
I would have said AZ a few weeks ago, thought we beat them fairly easily a few months ago with our 2nd string, but that Galatassaray result has spooked me a bit..
Chrissivad
Vedran Corluka
No, even if we don't win it we want to go as far as possible.
Better for our point, more praise money, hopefully build up some confidence
ricky2tricky4city
Dimitar Berbatov
I wonder what their fans are saying about our league position?
Muttley
Steve Hodge
You're probably not missing anything. What you say is true. 17 is really the magic number in both England and UEFA setups as the maximum amount of "foreign" players you can have. Then we've ended up with different classifications for the rest between PL and UEFA.
Spurs just sent in 23 A-list names. They listed Whiteman and Austin as their "club" trained. They listed 4 of Spence, Davies, Madds, Solanke and Johnson as their "association" trained. That means they have 6 "locally" trained in the 8 slots provided. That is the way UEFA classify.
So say it was Spence that wasn't named, he just just gets put in as a non-categorised A-lister which is exactly the same as Romero, a foreign player, and Gray, a local U21 who hasn't been registered with our club for 2 seasons. To UEFA, they are all the same. They are just A-list. In that A-list you could have up to 17 other homegrowns, you could have 17 foreign players or you could even have 17 U21's who haven't been registered at your club for 2 years.
Finally, football can have a really hard and honest side to it. Just ask our 3rd club trained player at the club, Max Robson. Unless I'm missing something, I think I'm right in saying that he could have been named like Whiteman.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Tom Huddlestone
Beating Galatassry at home 4-1 killed the tie, they don't travel well.
Dicko
Pat van den Hauwe
Yep, AZ are much better at home than away. They beat Roma, Ajax and Fenerbache all at home in the Europa League group stage but didn't win of their away games!
ricky2tricky4city
Dimitar Berbatov
It's all further up the page in this thread Mutley....I think the 'squad composition' posts have distracted you from the important stuff
Daisuk
Luka Modric
Ah, that's right! I had completely forgot we played them in the league stage. They were quite good.
ricky2tricky4city
Dimitar Berbatov
Euskadi or the Netherlands Mutley....get your act together
ricky2tricky4city
Dimitar Berbatov
Think I want AZ and hopefully Roma get Bilbao on the other side of the draw.
glorygloryeze
Steffen Freund
Sadly, i fear whoever we get if we don't have a Solanke or Richarlison. If we aren't going to be defensively strong, i'd want us to be easily able to outscore teams. Without that physicality that can enable the likes of Tel, Odebert, Son or even Kulusevski to get into very dangerous scoring positions, we might easily be stunted imo...
When is Solanke due back?
When is Solanke due back?