The death of The Fight for Champions League Football

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The death of The Fight for Champions League Football

The race for fourth place has entertained for many years. Tottenham and Everton breaking Premier League tradition to realise their Champions League dream, in Tottenhams case anyway. But be prepared for a return to relative normality, for many years to come, there is a new Top 4 in town and there here to stay. The top four, for the next five years at least will contain Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and United.Mancinis City side will remain strong, be reinforced if needed, po sibly if not needed. They can only benefit from consistency in the management team. If the board choose Vic Beasley Jersey not to maintain consistency and part ways with Mancini, they will appoint the Special One. The way I see it, this will only happen if Sheikh Mansour can guarantee Mourinhos signature. Either way I feel their place in the Top 4 is guaranteed for the foreseeable future. Arsenal may be some peoples contenders to lose their Champions League place. Wenger may not Lee Smith Jersey be able to build a squad of champions but he can certainly build one more than capable of securing a place in Europes elite club competition, as they have proved season after season. Chelsea flirted with the idea of Europa League football at one stage this season. They then brought Fernando Torres and David Luiz. Chelseas quality, determination and experience, coupled with the continued backing of Abramovich and the emergence of a future spine (Cech, Luiz, Mikel,Ramires and Torres) for me proves beyond doubt their credentials to challenge for the league title, now habitual to the club. Manchester Uniteds relentle s persistence to win games whilst not performing at their peak along with the set up and personnel at Old Trafford makes it hard to present a case for them falling out of the top 4.This leaves the challengers, Liverpool and Feleipe Franks Jersey Tottenham. The King has returned to Anfield, installed confidence and belief and re-energised everything around the club. Rumour Dalglish will be backed with a warchest will comfort many, but how far will this money go? It may be enough to enhance the quality of the squad; it wont be enough to take Liverpool to the next level. To replace the cla s of Alonso, Mascherano and Torres will be hard, impo sible when all you can offer is Europa League football. How long will Reina wish to stick around? The same can be said for Suarez. Any improvement will not be enough to break the New Top 4 resilience. Harry Redknapp will find himself in a similar situation at Tottenham. Keeping Bale, Van Der Vaart and Modric will prove a tough task, even more so when faced with 30 million pound bids and the ambition of these players wanting to expre s themselves on Europes biggest stage. Harry insists the club need to continue to spend, but they will A.J. Terrell Jr. Jersey not be in the Champions League next year, not many top cla s players will opt for that. Ancelotti expre sed this point in a recent pre s conference, highlighting Modric in particular. A mischievous attempt to turn the head of someone who would be a perfect addition to the Chelsea squad. An interesting summer story in waiting.Liverpool and Tottenham will try, maybe even push until the final games of the season. Both have quality, desire and ambition to bring the star stamped footballs back to grace their turf. The clubs standing in their way are just in better positions to maintain superb levels of performance that will only be enhanced. They have no need to sell their prize a sets, if they do, they will be ruthle sly replaced. A simple football equation. The elite of English football will Michael Vick Jersey only look to improve at the expense of two unfortunate underdogs.
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