The winners of the Europa League go automatically into Pot1? So the club that gets beaten in the CL final after playing better quality teams goes into Pot3. But yeah, our non qualification came back to bite us on the arse.
the Europa seeding is a sop to the middling clubs who go out at group stage. they do it as the big 6 leagues all get seeded one now... imo if locomotiv are a no 1 seed then the next league on is prob dross anyway I would have to check. our seeding is down to 2 coefficient points verses Roma. 2 years out of Europe and Rodgers disasterous groups stage performance ensures that. it does just go to show the importance of a win over a draw as well. win both legs.. win group games and you get more. but in the end... 6 of the top 10 and prob the Europa league winners will be in pot 1 all the time.. so that means pot 2 will have 8 of the next clubs so you want to be in top 16 really and at least top 20. lfc after this season will I hope.overtake spurs in the rankings. they do nothing after groups but get enough consistently to be in pot 2... lesson there. no Europe = bad news
Rather than a new thread this thread seems goo for this debate: Pot 1 Juventus PSG Man City Locomotive Moscow Real Madrid Atletico Barcelona Bayern Pot 2 Borussia Dortmund Porto Man Utd Shaktar Donetsk Napoli Tottenham Roma Benfica Pot 3 Liverpool Schalke Lyon Monaco Ajax CSK Moscow PSV Eindhoven Valencia Pot 4 Red Star Belgrade Victoria Pilzen Club Brugge Galatasaray Inter Milan Hoffenheim Young Boys AEK Athens this list if for anyone who wants to pick Utd, spurs and city's group but the next list is for LFC Pot 1 Juventus PSG Locomotive Moscow Real Madrid Atletico Barcelona Bayern Pot 2 Borussia Dortmund Porto Shaktar Donetsk Napoli Roma Benfica Pot 4 Red Star Belgrade Victoria Pilzen Club Brugge Galatasaray Inter Milan Hoffenheim Young Boys AEK Athens The easiest draw is maybe IMO Lokomotiv Benfica/Porto (not sure which are worse tbh) hoffenhiem? Toughest? Barca but really pot 1 is very strong napoli. don't let preseason TBH not even sure on 4th seed. any trip to eastern europe is a pain for us.
Yeah, give the FA Cup winners a place in the next world cup. The rules were changed to give the EL winners a place in the following season's CL, fair enough but they shouldn't go into pot 1.
Well if you want to link it like that the the LC winners go into the FA cup semi final? I would be happy if it were my club, the winners could be seen as th 2nd best that season in European KO cups
Pot 1 is league champions, champions league winner and Europa league winner. Doesn't matter how good your coefficient is, if you aren't one of those criteria then you aren't in pot 1
They’re ranked as 4th highest in Europe by their coefficient anyway, so it effectively makes no odds, they’re in the pot they should be in.
Agreed. They also started the 'omg league winners and current champions in pot one' also Approach to avoid loss of teams from the same country being top seeds yet we've got Barca, Real and Atletico together
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The EL winners are more like the 17th best team in Europe, since the top 16 qualify for CL knockouts Best case scenario they're the 3rd best team in Europe and had a CL group with the 1st and 2nd best teams in Europe
I bet yaya goes to Chelsea. It just adds up with the drink water, barely buys. someone mad is making buys at Chelsea and not with managers approval. yayas agent said he wants to prove he is best cm on prem so that means Chelsea, spurs, l'arse, Fulham, west ham, palace.
