Palace potentially denied entry to Europa League?

Without sounding entitled, id be disappointed with anything other than winning it, the teams in it are shocking, you would be disappointed playing them in a friendly, I honestly dont even know how or why this competition exists.
Looking at the teams that Reddit predicts will be in the group stage of the Conference League and their ELOs, it would appear that 7 teams in the group who will be of Premier League standard - Lazio, Forest, Mainz, Strasbourg, Genk, Rayo Villecano, and AZ Alkmaar. About half the teams should be of Championship standard, and the two worst teams seem to be of League Two standard. So it’s not unfair to compare the competition with the ZDS in terms of the quality of the teams in it, but I feel the competition is more credible than that, and winning the ZDS never got anyone into Europe.

If we were to replace Forest in the competition, we would have a better ELO than all of the above teams by a decent amount, so we would be favourites, but not overwhelmingly so.

Of the teams expected to be in the Europa League, we are ranked a fairly close second behind Villa. Lyon would be ranked 8th. About half the teams should be of Premier League standard, the other half at Championship level. There are no teams lower than Championship level.
 
My prediction for the week:

The textor shares sale goes through this week and UEFA say it's fine for us.
New kit released, community shield tickets details and we all get our FA cup final tickets!

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If we are sent to Conference League the only consolation I can find is that if we win it we get consecutive years of European football, we would have been delighted had we got Conference by virtue of PL finish

This is true, we could have swapped the wins in the fa cup for wins in the league and scraped a top position to get conference league and a couple more million extra prize money...

however, we have the glorious fa cup to our name.. that's what this season resulted in.. positions mean nothing in hindsight..

Realistically, are we ready for europa? to really compete in that and the league?
Or.. would we rather a slightly easier conference push, that keeps our league and cup challenges good..
 
This is true, we could have swapped the wins in the fa cup for wins in the league and scraped a top position to get conference league and a couple more million extra prize money...

however, we have the glorious fa cup to our name.. that's what this season resulted in.. positions mean nothing in hindsight..

Realistically, are we ready for europa? to really compete in that and the league?
Or.. would we rather a slightly easier conference push, that keeps our league and cup challenges good..
Yes, it's the usual Palace paradox
 

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