Biggus wrote:
I don't know why you're so surprised, some of us have known that for some time.
Burnwinter wrote:
General Mirth wrote:
Porto, Valencia, CSKA Moscow, Sevilla, Zenit Petersburg, Donetsk and At. Madrid are our level now?
Many of the clubs mentioned and other examples either have beaten, or would have had a decent chance of beating us in Europe during the last twenty years.
You're saying that's a crap list of clubs? Well it's obviously not the top table, but equally it easily surpasses the lower quartile of the PL, or the vast majority of clubs in the domestic cups.
We've played most of those teams in the CL group stages, with the exception of At. Madrid, and been a superior outfit.
Seriously, the teams Chelsea had to face to reach the final are: Sparta Prague, Steaua București, Rubin Kazan, FC Basel and now Benfica. That's not a competition, even the Emirates Cup attracts bigger teams than that!
If teams started taking it seriously, for starters by offering CL qualification to the winners, then there would be some merit but aside from that it's just a nice trip for match going fans but nothing more.
