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 by some means turning a catastrophic season right into a historic one, there might 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 might be forgotten if Spurs elevate the Europa League trophy on Wednesday evening.
“Whether or not that is sufficient to maintain Ange Postecoglou in a job, nonetheless, is the million-dollar query with all of the indications pointing in the direction of the Australian departing whatever the end result in Bilbao.
“The actual fact Postecoglou’s tenure in north London appears to be like 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 via the season.
“It is totally different for Tottenham. Following Postecoglou’s encouraging first season in cost, wherein Spurs completed fifth, this was a workforce set as much as compete for Champions League qualification.
“As a substitute, they might 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 injury 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 Might, then after the FA Cup ultimate 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 instructed Ruben Amorim he needed to begin instantly, not wait till the summer season to hitch from Sporting.
“Now, the protection web is Bilbao after which that United hit the bottom working in the beginning 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 regarded fluid and their passing triangles have labored.
“Nonetheless, Rasmus Hojlund has not regarded a risk at one finish of the sector and primary 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 straightforward to strike a single optimistic observe on United’s behalf. Someway, they rescued themselves.
“Since then, United have gotten one level from 5 Premier League video games. No-one has carried out 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 unhealthy actually takes some doing.”
