BBC Sport senior soccer correspondent Sami Mokbel and chief soccer information reporter Simon Stone, who will each be at San Mames for the ultimate, have had their say on whose season has been worse.
Mokbel on Spurs: “Underperformed, underachieved, unacceptable. Domestically, at the least.
“Whereas Tottenham will cling on to hope of one way or the other turning a catastrophic season right into a historic one, there may be no working away from the truth that outcomes and performances have been largely disastrous.
“Twenty-one defeats within the Premier League and counting. After all, all that will likely be forgotten if Spurs raise the Europa League trophy on Wednesday night time.
“Whether or not that is sufficient to maintain Ange Postecoglou in a job, nevertheless, is the million-dollar query with all of the indications pointing in direction of the Australian departing whatever the end result in Bilbao.
“The very fact Postecoglou’s tenure in north London seems set to finish imminently illustrates simply how pitiful their home marketing campaign has been.
“Of their defence, accidents have debilitated Tottenham’s season. They’ve misplaced key gamers for lengthy durations of time.
“However that is an expensively-assembled Tottenham squad – one that features the club-record £65m signing of Dominic Solanke.
“United are in a season of transition, having modified managers halfway by way of the season.
“It is completely different for Tottenham. Following Postecoglou’s encouraging first season in cost, through which Spurs completed fifth, this was a workforce set as much as compete for Champions League qualification.
“As an alternative, they may end one place above the relegation zone. That is undeniably poor.”
Stone on United: “Manchester United have been worse as a result of a lot of the harm has been self-inflicted.
“United had been those who mirrored on Erik ten Hag’s tenure, each within the wake of their 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace final Could, then after the FA Cup closing victory over Manchester Metropolis, and determined to stay with him.
“United gave him cash to spend, particularly on Matthijs de Ligt and Joshua Zirkzee in the summertime, then sacked him after 9 video games.
“And United informed Ruben Amorim he needed to begin instantly, not wait till the summer time to affix from Sporting.
“Now, the protection web is Bilbao after which that United hit the bottom working initially of subsequent season, which might justify the refusal to attend for Amorim.
“However, within the right here and now, United have been woeful.
“There have been durations in video games after they have appeared fluid and their passing triangles have labored.
“Nevertheless, Rasmus Hojlund has not appeared a menace at one finish of the sphere and fundamental errors have undermined them on the different.
“With six minutes left of additional time of their Europa League quarter-final towards 10-man Lyon, it was not simple to strike a single optimistic word on United’s behalf. One way or the other, they rescued themselves.
“Since then, United have gotten one level from 5 Premier League video games. No-one has completed worse than that.
“By any measure, that is United’s worst season for the reason that 1973-74 relegation marketing campaign. And so they introduced monetary losses of £113.2m final September.
“To spend a lot and be so dangerous actually takes some doing.”
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