Barney Ronay

But they finished 17th.

There was huge celebrations.

The players on the pitch were taking the acclaim of the South Stand.

Last season, there was four days after they won the Europa League, and there was a sense, oh, it'll all be fine next season.

And this time was a similar thing of, oh, it'll all be fine next season.

Now, of course, the difference is De Zerbi is there.

He's got an achievement under his belt.

He'll have some idea of what he wants to do with the squad.

Well, change it.

I mean, we've seen that.

And he's now got the summer to sort that out.

Whereas Thomas Frank was coming in as being the bloke, succeeding the bloke who'd actually achieve something.

So that dynamic maybe is slightly different.

But I don't think anybody should be sort of suckered into thinking this is all suddenly fine.

It should be fine.

And Barney's right.

No European football, there's every chance they can finish, say, sixth, maybe even fifth.

They have a potential to do that.

They've got good young players there, people like Archie Gray and Bergvall.

Yeah, on the Guards of Honour, I'm completely in the Rooney camp here.