Season Target: UCL Qualification

Laurie is reporting that Jason said UCL qualification is the season objective when he addressed the squad right after Amorim's sacking. Assuming that was always the objective for this season (no good reason why the objective would change after sacking the manager), I want to genuinely ask the community here did you think/do you think the objective is achievable? I want to emphasize on 'achievable', not how likely it is or not. In other words, was the objective reasonably ambitious or not?

I ask because far too often on the pod and in this form I've heard/read how the squad isn't good enough for a top 4/5 finish. I don't see why this squad cannot finish in the top 4/5 for 2025/26 season with no European commitments and a full pre-season (except late-signings)?

If you answer is the squad isn't good enough, I implore you to name the squads that you think will definitively fare better than this Man United team over 30 odd games. I can only think of City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool having a better squad but all of them have European competitions and much busier calendar than ours. The only controllable variable then left is the man-management/tactical side of the game.

P.S: This is not from hindsight of knowing how the gameplay in PL has evolved this season to a more direct style of play thus creating a chaotic mid-table, even before that, I couldn't look at any other teams other than those 4 and say they have a better squad than we do.