Unai has preformed miracles but I think the time has run out with this squad to be challenging for top 6 & CL next season
Which six teams would you say are in a better position to finish ahead of us?
I think a solid argument can be made for four, beyond that they mostly have our problems but worse.
The current top 4 plus Chelsea and Spurs if they stay up. De Zerbi will get them playing given time.
While things can obviously change, but as things stand Chelsea are properly screwed in the summer. They have to have the same net positive transfer balance like we did this season, will have to make some pretty massive sales and probably take some pretty massive losses on players. There's talk that they need to make £60-80m in transfer profit before the end of June or their UEFA punishments get worse than they are already.
Whatever problematic state we might find ourselves in, Chelsea's is far worse.
As for Spurs, maybe. Emery managed to drag Gerrard's players into a far better position than when he found us. But it is still *that* Spurs squad that has finished in the bottom four / five for two seasons in a row. And de Zerbi record is much more one of chucking petrol on massive fires rather than putting them out.
