Champions League to increase to 36 teams from 2024
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Any source or, y'know, anything at all?
Group stages are boring.
"Even floated now is banning CL teams from signing players from each other"
Most ridiculous thing I've read in the last 10 minutes on here.
Most ridiculous thing I've read in the last 10 minutes on here.
Presumably this means 5 teams from England, Spain and Italy then?
Clever edit, you sly devil.
I think the idea was discussed on the Caf before. I dislike it massively - extra group games would be tedious. There's a very good reason why the second group stage was scrapped back then.
Fascinating. Shame @Siorac can’t see it.
Sorry was too lazy to create the thread on my phone where I saw the tweet
Do they mean no in-season transfers? If it goes from 6 to 10 rounds, the first 4 rounds are going to be God awful with trips to some bog standard pitch in Eastern Europe.
I cant even understand how this works. So no player will ever go from top club to top club ever again?
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Bayern Munich dislikes this
Inter's starting XI will have retired by 2024
So more absolute fodder games.
Just expand the tournament to 64 teams and make it a two leg straight knockout competition from the beginning.
Just expand the tournament to 64 teams and make it a two leg straight knockout competition from the beginning.
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Cool, let's make the dullest part of the competitions bigger and more bloated.
I'd hope that means more teams from the top leagues.
If it means more places for the weaker leagues then we're just gonna get more teams qualifying early and playing their reserves in the remaining matches.
If it means more places for the weaker leagues then we're just gonna get more teams qualifying early and playing their reserves in the remaining matches.
"Action live from Group T tonight as Ludogorets take on Genk and Hapoel Beer Sheva host Benfica."
Yeah big no thanks. All about money, no one wants more tedious group stage games.
This looks like a not so subtle way of increasing the gap between the bigger and smaller clubs.
Can't sign players from CL standard clubs? Fine. We'll just raid the smaller clubs and steal all their talent instead.
It's high-time we stopped shitting on the smaller clubs like Darlington, Exeter, Spurs, etc. It's not fair.
Intuitively I would say that it's good for the dutch, french and portuguese leagues because with CL money the 3rd or 4th teams have less chance to sell good players and will be able to get some squad continuity.
good. No doubt we can flog them a few more dead horses thenInter's starting XI will have retired by 2024
What they should do is have todays C.L as division 1 and todays Europa League as division 2 with a more evenly distributed price money. Let's say 6 teams get relegated and 6 teams get promoted
And all teams not qualifying for division 2 will play a separate tournament to qualify for Division 2
For sake of argument that 5 english teams enter C.L 1 - and 3 english teams enter C.L 2. If one English team get relegated, England only get 4 spots for Division 1 and 4 for Division 2 the next season.
That would make Europa League much more exciting to watch
And all teams not qualifying for division 2 will play a separate tournament to qualify for Division 2
For sake of argument that 5 english teams enter C.L 1 - and 3 english teams enter C.L 2. If one English team get relegated, England only get 4 spots for Division 1 and 4 for Division 2 the next season.
That would make Europa League much more exciting to watch
The sceptic in me says Its going to mean United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Real, Barca, Juve, both Milans, Bayern are all autopicks regardless of where they finish in the league.
Why must they dick around with something that isn't broken?
Somebody linked to Arsene talking about it in the VAR thread, how a big part of the change is to fend off interest in forming a European Super League.
Can't say I think it sounds any good - Euros are worse now - but you're probably right to say that it all comes down to money.
So we're going to get two group stages again ?
So Arsenal will probably have to wait till 2024 for the CL.
Because what football needs is more games.
Is this as well as the Europa Conference League? That could mean European qualification for any club finishing in the top half of the table!
Reckon that would lead to some very dubious gamesmanship. Basically, if you're not getting top 4 it would almost be worthwhile finishing as far down the table as possible with next season in mind. Bit like Liverpool are doing this season.
Reckon that would lead to some very dubious gamesmanship. Basically, if you're not getting top 4 it would almost be worthwhile finishing as far down the table as possible with next season in mind. Bit like Liverpool are doing this season.
Why not just turn it into a royal rumble?
Why are FIFA and UEFA seemingly determined to ruin their best competitions?
Exactly.
Don’t see the point, other than money. The group games are the boring bit we have to sit through to get to the good ties, and having more teams just dilutes it and serves to make it less unique.
More Games + TV = More money