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Friday's draw.

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That's not the question though.

Would our winning the europa league, having had our games in the group stage, beat our getting KO'd in the round of 16, i.e. 2 games additional?
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True, I was just explaining that the difference is that immense that it's highly unlikely.
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I read somewhere that Werder Bremen made more money by reaching the final of the UEFA cup than Bayern did in exited at quarter final stage of the Champions League.
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i'd like this cleared up as i might enjoy it more if winning the thing is the difference between a new player or not.
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My memory about this is vague but it cheered me up when I read the article after we were knocked out of the Champions League... let me see if I can find it.

I would very much like us to win this thing. In some ways, more than getting fourth in the league. Scraping fourth in the league doesn't hide our dismal season but a trophy is a trophy. Did you see Stevie's reaction last night when Nando scored the goal that sealed the tie? It was brilliant and so much better than watching him sulk around the pitch in that Wign match.

Also, it would be marvelous to see Nando and Mascher win a trophy in a Liverpool shirt and maybe this will make them want to stay a bit longer.
 
i don't think us winning europa will have any bearing at all on how long torres and mash stay with us. we will have to reaffirm ourselves as a challenger for the league and champions league next season or they'll go.
 
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i don't think us winning europa will have any bearing at all on how long torres and mash stay with us. we will have to reaffirm ourselves as a challenger for the league and champions league next season or they'll go.
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No, maybe not, but it's easy to forget that Nando and Mascher haven't even contested a final as a Liverpool player, let alone win a trophy. It's not like Stevie or Carra who a has winner's medals for everything except the league.

Anyway, I did find the article about the money. It's from the Independent:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/exit-leaves-benitez-to-beg-sell-or-borrow-in-january-1827019.html

A run through to the latter stages of the Champions League would of course have brought huge riches, but the short-term financial consequences of Fiorentina's result in Stadio Artemio Franchi are actually quite bearable. Liverpool had budgeted only to progress as far as the last 16 in the Champions League this season, and the club calculated the lost earnings of not making it that far at around £2.6m. If Liverpool play three two-leg ties in the Europa League campaign next spring, they would expect to earn around £3m and therefore be £400,000 ahead of their budgeted European earnings for this season.

So the junior trophy does have its benefits, as Werder Bremen discovered last season, by earning more money by winning the Uefa Cup than Bayern Munich did in reaching the Champions League quarter-finals.
 
Winning a trophy is winning a trophy. The season will still be a disaster whatever, but we desperately need some silverware after four years without any.
 
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i don't think us winning europa will have any bearing at all on how long torres and mash stay with us. we will have to reaffirm ourselves as a challenger for the league and champions league next season or they'll go.
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No, maybe not, but it's easy to forget that Nando and Mascher haven't even contested a final as a Liverpool player, let alone win a trophy. It's not like Stevie or Carra who a has winner's medals for everything except the league.

Anyway, I did find the article about the money. It's from the Independent:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/exit-leaves-benitez-to-beg-sell-or-borrow-in-january-1827019.html

A run through to the latter stages of the Champions League would of course have brought huge riches, but the short-term financial consequences of Fiorentina's result in Stadio Artemio Franchi are actually quite bearable. Liverpool had budgeted only to progress as far as the last 16 in the Champions League this season, and the club calculated the lost earnings of not making it that far at around £2.6m. If Liverpool play three two-leg ties in the Europa League campaign next spring, they would expect to earn around £3m and therefore be £400,000 ahead of their budgeted European earnings for this season.

So the junior trophy does have its benefits, as Werder Bremen discovered last season, by earning more money by winning the Uefa Cup than Bayern Munich did in reaching the Champions League quarter-finals.


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Mascher played in the 2007 CL final against Milan.
 
I don't want Valenica.

Not because I'm a scaredy-cat but because I can't take another "X returns to Y" media meltdowns.

It fucking does my head in and gets on my teetage.
 
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Lets put Hamburg out, as I wouldn't fancy playing them in the Final in their own back yard.
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I would. It'd be ace. We'd be guaranteed some violent retribution from the Hamburg fans when we muller their team .

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CorrecTIOOOON (c) Doug Heffernan.
 
Yep...
Inter/CSKA Moscow v Arsenal/Barcelona
Bayern/Man United v Lyon/Bordeaux

Inter Milan v CSKA Moscow
Arsenal v Barcelona
Bayern Munich v Manchester United
Lyon v Bordeaux
 
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Quelle suprise, the Mancs 'avoid' Inter, Arsenal and Barcelona until the final.
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Cunts.
 
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They're not going to find a resurgent Bayern easy.
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fingers crossed smiley
 
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Dwight yorke is happy because uniteds "home leg will be played at home"
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Did he say that ?
 
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Dwight yorke is happy because uniteds "home leg will be played at home"
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Did he say that ?
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And the fact that the two teams have played 7 times and Bayern have only won once was "a positive" according to Dwight "Mastermind" Yorke
 
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Dwight yorke is happy because uniteds "home leg will be played at home"
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Did he say that ?
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And the fact that the two teams have played 7 times and Bayern have only won once was "a positive" according to Dwight "Mastermind" Yorke
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That's what happens when you copulate with Jordan. You catch stupiditis.
 
I see on ssn's ticker thing down the right the teams "CL best" is only from when it was rebranded and ignores everything pre 93 or whatever it was. Twats.
 
sky panel debating who the best plater in the world is. it's out of rooney, messi and ronaldo in their eyes. they've gone for rooney.
 
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sky panel debating who the best plater in the world is. it's out of rooney, messi and ronaldo in their eyes. they've gone for rooney.
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Ronaldo's the best plater. They don't call him the Gay Waiter for nothing.
 
"12.00pm So we're back in the Nyon lecture theatre, this time with Michael Heselschwerdt, who has heavily gelled hair and talks in a slow, monotonous voice, like an emergency warning of impending nuclear war.
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"12.02pm: The balls are in red and white fruit bowls. Everybody is listening to Heselschwerdt going on about respect and fair play and finding a fall-out shelter or if not just rolling into a ball and hiding under a soaking wet mattress."
 
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