Sunday's 2-0 defeat to Everton means Manchester United now cannot make the top four and qualify for the Champions League.
Manager David Moyes already has his sights set on getting back up there next season. "It's part of this club, we want to be in it and we'll do everything we can to get ourselves back in it as quickly as we can," he said.
"We've already done that and we're doing that behind the scenes just now.
"We'll try and do everything we possibly can to try and get a team which is capable of winning better than we have done recently."
Moyes was pleased with his side's performance against Roberto Martinez's men but admitted he was disappointed with his players for the two goals.
"We gave away two terrible goals but prior to that we passed the ball brilliantly well, kept the ball, had great control of the game," he added.
He added: "What we couldn't do is make enough chances but we had a great control and we got done by two stupid decisions.
"We didn't have a final through pass at times, we didn't have a final finish when they came and there weren't very many of them.
"That was the disappointing part, that we just couldn't do that in the final third but I couldn't fault how we played because we kept the ball incredibly well."
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