Let's not get carried away.
Palace will likely lose half their squad next season, or the season after and could well end up falling down the table again (they're still 'down' in 12th now).
Granted they have a major trophy, you can never take away from them, so fair play to them on that front...
Which was mental :lol: the Spanish and Italian teams would be favourites, as chances are they have experience European competitions.
On top of playing on plastic pitches, in tough atmospheres, in extreme weather, it's also new experience to our players too.
I'm not discounting us, especially...
Quite possibly but there's no way we would be anywhere near favourites of winning it.
Playing on plastic pitches 1000's of miles away, midweek in the middle of nowhere is hard enough, then playing experienced teams like Fiorentina and Betis if we make the later rounds isn't going to be easy...
TBH would be really want Conference League football? 7000 mile midweek trip to Kazakstan isn't ideal.
I would rather we miss out and try again for Europa league.
Because we don't want to lose. The higher we finish the more money we get. A good end to the season will hopefully carry on to next season. The better we look, the more attractive we look for prospective incoming players.