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Less is more.
I don't think it's meant to be a big new thing to rival the european championship, its just a way to replace the bulk of euro vs euro friendlies with something more meaningfully structured.Yes it’s a failure for me and everyone I know. I don’t feel anything at all watching those games. I don’t care if Sweden wins the trophy. I don’t even know if I would watch a final involving Sweden. Maybe that’ll change in the future but no one I know are the least passionate about NL. But I admit I’m hard to impress. Even the World Cup has lost a portion of it’s magic. Maybe it’s that I’m getting older. Or maybe it really has to do with people without passion for the game, with money on their minds, arranging the tournaments and deciding the rules.
Yeah, thought it was really boring, a complete slog. 2 group stages was just too much.Anyone remember the old champions League system where you had to win one set of group games to go into a second set of group games? It sucked balls, I have absolutely no memory of either group, excepting that we might have played Valencia in it. Those games just get lost in the quagmire of time, whereas the knockout games always end up memorable somehow (whether you win or lose)
Wouldn't mind this to be fair. Limit to 3 clubs max from each country.Just have one fecking tournament for the entire continent, two-leg knockouts each round. No more Europa, just a single European Cup.
If domestic competitions have a say, promotions and relegations have no sense in European competitions.Scrap this and just do 2 division European league.
Division 1 - 14 teams
Division 2 - 14 teams - bottom 3 gets relegated. Top 2 gets promoted, with another in a playoff.
Europa League - Winners and runner-up goes straight to division 2, whilst 4th place fight it out with 3rd place for EL place.
Domestic cups - Teams participating in EL should field the B team only/or void their participation/ or first team players for quarter final stage and above only.
Then we can have a competition at the highest caliber.
Now top clubs play at least 60+-70+ matches per season, with this it's around the same amount.
Firstly, it was shit.As others said, this is basically the revival of the second group stage. And there are very good reasons why that was scrapped after only four seasons.
The only issue is they’d end up hosting the finals in random locations for cash like Saudi or New York.It looks to me a way to have more games so milk more money.
Best format for me was the final eight from last year. It looks like a World cup and I like it !
Knock out are the best in Europe and if you want a league just watch the league. I like the league but Europe should be different otherwise boring...
Would like what we had last year. One round knockouts played from the last 16 and in a small space of time and the same country at the end of the season to keep the excitement !
I know many will say you can't watch your team on your own stadium but it can be counter balanced if every big League can organise it every 6 year or so on home soil and smallers one from time to time. It will feel like a world cup when you organise it.
The home and away knockout format we have now are kind of boring, too much chess about it in games I think...teams can be scared to conced at home and too much round are won the first game which makes it boring.
Nothing feel more exciting then a knockout where everything is played in one game. That has some kind of magic.
It would be horrific to play Europe in Saudi or New York, which will put away all the meaning of Europe.The only issue is they’d end up hosting the finals in random locations for cash like Saudi or New York.
If there was a way we could guarantee having it England every 5/6 years I’m for it. Otherwise no thanks. Wouldn’t want to sacrifice having a big European Old Trafford night.
They should be made to watch full 90-Minutes of the most boring matches with the most boring managers. ENDLESSLY.When I seize power, whatever group of people came up with this monstrous proposal will be flung off specially designed Trebuchets into Siberia, and non-champions will be kicked out of the CL