Not satisfied with ruining what was a perfectly good European Cup Tournament, Uefa then allowed the failed CL teams to drop into the Europa League thus imbalancing that.
However their the latest plan, believed to be being hatched by clubs like United, Chelsea, Milan etc is that certain clubs in each League will be guaranteed CL football irrespective of where they finish in their own leagues.
Obviously only one thing is driving this, money!
Allegedly discussions have already taken place amongst the "elite" European clubs to see how it sits with them.
So never mind that it was originally a competition for Champions of domestic leagues, then became a competition for non champions of domestic leagues, they now want to make it a non qualfying competition for a select band of "elite" clubs.
This would mean less places in the current competition for non "elite" clubs, and would in my opinion completely devalue the whole competition down to farcical levels!
It would also totally devalue domestic leagues throughout Europe.
It would be far better (although never going to happen) to return to having the CL for domestic league winners ONLY, and the Europa League for clubs who finish in designated places in their respective leagues. Also allow winner of Europa to compete in following season's CL.
Enough is Enough with the CL!
posted on 28/1/16
Sheriff.....................................................This has been widely reported as one point discussed between the European Clubs Association at a recent meeting.
There are 220 clubs from 53 different associations.
England has United, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea & Liverpool as ordinary members (which is main status) plus Aston Villa, Everton & Newcastle as associte members.
It is not something dreamed up by me or anyone else here on JA606, it has been widely reported in the press & on radio too
posted on 28/1/16
any proof of this
posted on 28/1/16
They will need Arsenal in definitely, somebody has to make up the numbers.
posted on 29/1/16
comment by Paulo DyBAEla (U6687)
posted 16 hours, 21 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 11 minutes ago
Like the US Masters in Golf any team that has been good enough to win the European Cup/ Champions League should have an opportunity to play in it for a protected amount of time whether they qualify or not.
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thisand i'll add to this by saying the amount of times you've won it, is the amount of lives you get in the competition, so if you get knocked out once but you've won it twice, you get another go, and so on, and so on
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unless you've got double-digit wins, in which case you get as many lives as it takes to beat Barça.
posted on 29/1/16
comment by Genius Greaves is 100% behind Poch & The B... (U1302)
posted 11 hours, 19 minutes ago
Sheriff.....................................................This has been widely reported as one point discussed between the European Clubs Association at a recent meeting.
There are 220 clubs from 53 different associations.
England has United, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea & Liverpool as ordinary members (which is main status) plus Aston Villa, Everton & Newcastle as associte members.
It is not something dreamed up by me or anyone else here on JA606, it has been widely reported in the press & on radio too
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Point me in the direction of some info...& i'll give it my attention
posted on 29/1/16
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/european-giants-plotting-revamped-champions-7260605
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10146497/european-club-association-discuss-champions-league-changes
https://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4AEgBUABgAmoCdWvYAQA&usg=AFQjCNEAoJHLFCMEv1hHIZ71Y01xc3EAkw&rt=STORY&url=http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/28/manchester-united-among-clubs-looking-at-controversial-champions-league-change-5649299/&at=pt3&ei=eherVpCYEsTB1Aa_zbzoDg
Seeing as you are a lazy
posted on 29/1/16
I have to wonder why you didn't include these in your original post...
you know this is pie in the sky...don't you...unless we have a European league...which we might one day
posted on 29/1/16
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 9 minutes ago
I have to wonder why you didn't include these in your original post...
you know this is pie in the sky...don't you...unless we have a European league...which we might one day
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Oh you haven't. ..someone else has...my bad
posted on 29/1/16
you know this is pie in the sky...don't you...unless we have a European league...which we might one day
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If true though, it would certainly be a step further in precisely that direction.
posted on 29/1/16
comment by itsonlyagame (U6426)
posted 5 hours, 38 minutes ago
you know this is pie in the sky...don't you...unless we have a European league...which we might one day
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If true though, it would certainly be a step further in precisely that direction.
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As long as Chelsea are part of it...that's fine