I don’t think the “lower tier” trophies should be dismissed as not worth winning. Anyway I personally think Jurgen will everything there is to win with us.
It wouldn't be too bad if the assistant flags immediately but they don't these days so the defender has to judge whether it is offside and whether the assistant has likely seen it or not.
Does it matter? We are all intelligent enough to know how much weight to attach to this stuff but it helps to pass the time while waiting for something to happen in the real world.
So someone said it and you can't remember who. We will have champions league football this year with a thin squad. Something will have to give. Fans will be rightly aggrieved. Your straw man argument does not help.