FA Cup Winners or Champions League - Poll added

[messymascot]

I do wonder what happens to our transfer plans if we get top 4.

With this manager we going from shopping in Sainsburies to shopping in Harrods. Before he arrived we were shopping in Tesco.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

It's a tough one. Top 4 and CL footy, generally, is what you need to attract better players.

But if we win a trophy, which still puts us in the Europa, or even if not, to get 5 or 6, with Carlo at the helm, still might be enough to get the better players we need.

FA Cup for me

 

[Tubey]

Champions League qualification is a long term game changer. We attract a different calibre of player more easily.

If we win a cup, we get that monkey off our back but apart from a bit of a mentality shift it doesn't change that much.

Both are obviously better than none, but qualification for the Champions League means you have more chance of winning cups long term, so that's the one I'd pick.

The League Cup remains a waste of space and should be jettisoned at the first opportunity by playing the reserves or under 18s.

 

[Tubey]

It's a tough one. Top 4 and CL footy, generally, is what you need to attract better players.

But if we win a trophy, which still puts us in the Europa, or even if not, to get 5 or 6, with Carlo at the helm, still might be enough to get the better players we need.

FA Cup for me

Only one of the last 12 winners of the FA Cup were a non-Champions League team, being Wigan. They got no benefit whatsoever from it.

The last 7 straight winners of the League Cup have been Champions League teams.

It's a cast iron fact that if you want to win trophies, you realistically have to be in the top four.

 

[BrendanGOT]

Trophy. No question.

 

[Richard Alex]

No contest
FA cup any day of the week.

 

[Bluerover]

Both, but we badly need silverware.

 

[Tonymckinn1878]

As much as I would love the FA cup nobody is beating city again this season, so top 4, with the extra cash to help with FFP. Then we can win the lot!

 

[stretford blue]

Fa cup win and then a parade around the city that would certainly boil some

 

[billybadger]

I think we will beat City on pens,then typical Everton we will lose in the semi final

 

[Verbal Kint]

Cup all day everyday...

 

[Tipp blue]

Cup.. far too long since we picked up a pot. Needs sorting.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

cup if I had to choose
Honestly though I just want us to enjoy our football and keep pushing on wherever that may be

 

[SussexToffee]

Champions League for me, the FA Cup isn’t the competition it used to be when we last won it. 1995 really was the era where it lost its meaningness, if that is such a word!. 1999 or 2000 it became irrelevant and finalists no longer went into recording studios to record awful songs to celebrate their participation.

In South America, domestic cup winners go to their equivalent of the Champions League, which to me keeps the value in these competitions up.

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Any normal season I would say FA Cup 100%....but without the fans in the stadium, and the pubs open to celebrate, it wouldn't really be the same....

Champions league football, unthinkable this time last year, would really help Carlo build an even better team...and fans will be back for some massive European nights next season