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They’ve said that will be the case... with spaces open for qualification.
We can host the final every year. Lovely stadium and we are very unlikely to be playing.
If it replaced the Champions League and had the European Cup as it's trophy, and was a competition, not a closed shop for the greedy powerful 12, then yes it would be a possible alternative to consider.
Football is about tradition and generational support, so to tear up a competition (the European Cup and CL) of over 70 years because of greed and ruin the competitive part is unthinkable.
I wouldn't mind seeing Graham Norton replace Gary Lineker to be honest.
Millions of Czech and Greek people will probably pay to see their clubs in the CL. For many Norwegians like me, Rosenborg made CL interesting in the late nineties. Watching them play clubs on the level of Olympiakos and Slavia Prague was great. The games were often entertaining, and also served as an important reminder of the quality we were witnessing when watching two actual giants play.
On this very forum you can observe what happens when fans becomes too spoiled. People are discussing how "shit" the players are. Players who are internationals for some of the best nations in the world, who have made it into the squad of one of the very best clubs in the world! In the most played and one of the best paid sports. They are not shit. They are unrealistically brilliant. Even our worst player is of 1 in a million quality. But we lose sight of it, because we spend too much time watching PSG vs Bayern Munich, and too little time watching Olympiakos vs Slavia Prague or Viking vs Brann or Telford vs Morecombe.
If the reports are true, UEFA has bent over and had the continental cups fucked in the arse by some of the "Mega clubs". Football does not and most certainly should not revolve around them. In football, anyones place at the top should be earned, not owned.
Have they said the 12 founding members can get relegated then cos I haven’t read that?
5 places are possible to qualify for, the other 15 are always the same. It is bollocks.
Could be like Eurovision, the 12 are safe but 6 more are let in on a rotational basis. Just in case the idea isn't stupid enough.
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______ is on top of things, best listen to the man.
So you’re saying that there still might be a chance?
What's wrong with the CL is that over the years it has expanded so much that it now has a detrimental effect on our national league, the bedrock of the game. Only the richer teams, with large squads, have a chance of getting to the final stages. Sadly, this applies to all aspects of the game these days.
Whoever mentiond greed, earlier in the thread, got it right. The 'owners' of the game are just a bunch of selfish, greedy businessmen (including, of course, the TV companies) and the 'custodians' are, at best, toothless, out-of-touch simpletons. At their worst, they're in collusion with the 'owners'.
My own problem is that my heart is shaped like a cockerel and I bleed blue & white blood, so whatever happens I'm Tottenham till I die. For what it's worth, I voted 'No'.
Where there is Dane Scarlett there is hope.
That 21 billion is not going to the grass roots whether this thing happens or not though.
That would be preferable for me but if that's the case why do we get to star in it first season?
I guess they were impressed with the Zagreb game.
UEFA should have tried to implement a wage cap years ago and that Financial Fair Play went out the window when Man City we're let off.
Although this would've happened years ago if a wage cap was instilled in the European leagues.
Probably the same reason why am Oceanic team is let in to the Club World Cup.
I thought there was already a financial agreement worked out with the lower tiers because of Covid? Surely this puts an even bigger dent in their plans.