I'm not sure. If you actually win a tournament, surely you can *always* argue that you were the best team in it, can't you. I don't think players refuse to accept their medals and trophies just because they didn't beat Real Madrid.
The competition itself's the thing, I reckon. We want to win the European Cup and if we only have to play against Swindon Town and Saudi Arabia to do it, then so be it.