Leverkeusen won it, Ajax won it, Porto won it. Celtic won European Cup and made final of 2003 Europa League/UEFA Cup. Steaua Bucharest won European Cup too. Ajax went pretty far last season with a young team.
5000-1 is not short, don't think any bookies would offer longer odds, not unusual for a smaller team to get a good cup run now and again.
You're promoting Colchester FC as you're a fan I assume - they don't win much but no-one's knocking them? Don't see the point of coming onto a thread just to knock the best side in Scotland because the EPL has better teams than any league bar Spain. No reason at all to expect a side from Romania should be well beaten by a club from Scotland.
5000-1 is not short, don't think any bookies would offer longer odds, not unusual for a smaller team to get a good cup run now and again.
You're promoting Colchester FC as you're a fan I assume - they don't win much but no-one's knocking them? Don't see the point of coming onto a thread just to knock the best side in Scotland because the EPL has better teams than any league bar Spain. No reason at all to expect a side from Romania should be well beaten by a club from Scotland.
Ajaz for example have won of the best youth production systems in world football and they are always producing World Class talent - and sometimes they hit a hot patch where they get about 5 or 6 of them in one go and their team is outstanding - happened in the 90's with the De Boers and Seedorff , Davids etc and then last year with De Jong , De Ligt amongst a few , and then Porto tap into the Brazillian market and unearth gems , they have done it for decades and again sometimes they get a good bunch together and do well - 04 for example
Celtic dont have either which doesnt help them but one of the biggest differences is the level of competitiveness - that past ten years 4 teams have won the Dutch league and there is a strong competition for the title between Ajaz , PSV and Feyenoord , in Portugal you have the strong rivalry between Benfica and Porto and its mainly only a couple of points between them - Celtic stroll to the league with not much competition , they are by far the strongest team in the league - you mention Celtic getting to the Europa League Final - was that not in the 2000's when Rangers were also strong and it was a yearly battle between the two and they both reached the final at some stage with both teams having some very good players - Celtic need strong competition , to help attract better telly money for the whole league and also the better players - if Celtic keep strolling to the league each year then the situation is going to get worse for them - the fans will celebrate 10 in a row then 11 in a row and thats great but it wont help them in European Comps - it maybe criminal to say but a stronger Rangers challenging them will make Celtic better