Apart from the Poool, the CL QF results do not appear to have stuck to the UEFA script. I expect the match officials to be read the riot act before the 2nd kegs,
Brought this here from another article to discuss ... Once again you can see how UEFA are manipulating their "coefficients" regime to ensure that their darlings are not adversely financially punished by the "new order" in particular domestic leagues. I will not be surprised to see UEFA soon change the : 1. club ranking coefficients regime to similarly be a 10 yr rolling window (rather than the current 5) 2. PL auto CL qualifiers to be the top 3 only, if PL clubs begin to dominate the EL final (and thus repeatedly have 5 clubs in the CL) .
So you get easier draws and earn more money, which in turn means that you get easier draws and earn more money? Why don't they just abandon the farce and pick who they want to be in the later stages from the start?
If other leagues begin to get their equivalents of Spurs, then no doubt they will. Until then, in the group stage 'draw pot' regime they trust. FYI, we have seen with the Poool how many consecutive seasons their darlings have to be out of / performing meh in UEFA tournaments before they could return to the CL in draw pot 3/4.
You mean like this.... Champions League promotion and relegation to be discussed by top clubs https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48057957 There's a European Super League coming folks....Love it or loathe it......it's coming.
Not so sure on that. The PL funders have ploughed too much money in to risk losing UK subscription money. And "market forces" have made it stronger (look at the dogfights for the top 6, 4-5 clubs per season in the CL, potential dominance of the EL final etc) .
Champions League relegation already exists. It's called the qualifying rounds that exist to root out as many teams who don't play in the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Eredivisie or Primeira Liga as possible But of course the G14 have no influence on UEFA anymore...
European Super League would be a disaster for the majority of fans in Europe. The reason the CL is exciting is because it has that mix of being a stage for the best players in the world to strut their stuff, combined with the possibility for exciting, outsider teams like Ajax, or Spurs this season, to cause upsets. And those teams can be different every year, especially in the group stages. 10 years of the same European clubs playing each other will leave everyone stale and looking for the next shiny toy to play with. This is being mooted to sell big broadcasting rights to Asian, Middle Eastern and US markets and they will lose interest quickly when it turns out to be a boring closed shop. Liverpool playing Barça every few years in the CL, for example, is exciting. I’ll watch that game not just because Spurs have a chance to meet the winner in the final this year, but because it’s likely going to be a really good game between two teams we don’t get to see in a head to head very often. Liverpool vs. Barça twice a year for a decade gets boring fast. The enjoyment of football comes from the randomness, the spontaneity, the variety, not just on the pitch but off it as well. Efforts to remove elements of that must be resisted at all costs.
I agree that we're the one league that doesn't really need it, apart from the fact that 2 of our Big 6 clubs keep ending up in the EL. Failure to make the CL next season should cost United £100 million in TV, attendances, sponsorships, shirt deals, etc.. However, all the other European Leagues would be investigated by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, so uncompetitive and predictable are they. I can see a possible interim position of smaller domestic leagues (16 clubs) and the clubs involved dropping out of the Carabao Cup altogether. Add in that there are no longer FA Cup replays and there's capacity for more European games, which would further enrich the Big 6. There's no appetite to expand the roster in the CL because you just end up letting uncompetitive teams in. Nobody wants that. However more games involving the top sides....That sells and is where this is all heading.
The FA Cup replay thing is an insult, especially if a small club gets a big club at home and the game is a draw. If you are a big club and don't want a replay, select a team that will get the job done the first time of asking. "There's no appetite to expand the roster in the CL because you just end up letting uncompetitive teams in. Nobody wants that. However more games involving the top sides....That sells and is where this is all heading." The UEFA summer tours of woe are intended to ensure that the desired group stage "cannon fodder" are not so good as to cause upsets, but not so bad that they will lose each game 10-0.
l'arse really need to win the wafer or they could find themselves drawn against FC Inhulets Petrove next season....
He reffed Man Utd's loss to Barca at Old Trafford and Liverpool's tedious 0-0 with Bayern this season. Also sent off Vertonghen in our 3-1 win over Dortmund last year and did Arsenal's 1-0 loss to Atletico.
Liverpool will be given the home dressing room when they face Tottenham in the Champions League final, as reported in the Liverpool Echo. The Reds have been designated as the away team for the clash as they were in the second half of the draw going into the tie, but will still be given the facilities usually used by Atletico Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano. That changing room is more spacious and luxurious than the away facilities, which will now be given to Spurs because of security reasons to do with proximity to both sides’ sets of supporters. https://talksport.com/football/542555/liverpool-home-champions-league-tottenham/ What a pathetic excuse. I guess they reserve the home dressing room for the team that UEFA want to win. Originally it was City to beat Barca but we have spoilt their plans so.......
