Champions League Squad

[OTL]

Its all about control

All of these federations are trying to maintain control, over complication is their friend, they fear an alternative super league, they fear it so much that they are re engineering their own competitions to be more like a super league. There are penalties for not complying with them, there are even penalties for considering an alternative !

Nice work if you can get it ! Make it an offence to consider a competitor haha. They fear an alternative Super league will surface again - but with all the fixes that these clowns have identified as weaknesses.

I doubt they fully understand the logic in the fine detail of all their regulations, i certainly dont.

 

[dkw]

Its all about control

All of these federations are trying to maintain control, over complication is their friend, they fear an alternative super league, they fear it so much that they are re engineering their own competitions to be more like a super league. There are penalties for not complying with them, there are even penalties for considering an alternative !

Nice work if you can get it ! Make it an offence to consider a competitor haha. They fear an alternative Super league will surface again - but with all the fixes that these clowns have identified as weaknesses.

I doubt they fully understand the logic in the fine detail of all their regulations, i certainly dont.

Theyve manipulated the CL to be almost exactly what the clubs wanted, next step is "Legacy" clubs being exempt from qualification, the big teams will be in it every season no matter what.

 

[OTL]

Theyve manipulated the CL to be almost exactly what the clubs wanted, next step is "Legacy" clubs being exempt from qualification, the big teams will be in it every season no matter what.

Im gonna go out on a limb here....I dont mind if certain clubs are exempt .....As Long As We Are One Of Them.

Maybe qualification should be weighted with historical performance or other criteria that we meet.

Id rather play top european teams week in week out than bloody Burnley and the like.

 

[C3blue]

Im gonna go out on a limb here....I dont mind if certain clubs are exempt .....As Long As We Are One Of Them.

Maybe qualification should be weighted with historical performance or other criteria that we meet.

This is what most fans had a problem with when it came to the super league. They wanted a closed shop.

Sport should be a meritocracy, you should always earn it otherwise it detracts from the achievement.

Also you lose a lot from the competition without jeopardy. How many times has the premier league relegation battle been more exciting than the title race?

Oh and screw the ‘legacy clubs’ and their entitlement even if we are included.

 

[dkw]

Im gonna go out on a limb here....I dont mind if certain clubs are exempt .....As Long As We Are One Of Them.

Maybe qualification should be weighted with historical performance or other criteria that we meet.

Id rather play top european teams week in week out than bloody Burnley and the like.

Couldnt disagree more, theres no way any competition should be closed shop, not club has a right to be in the CL ahead of any other.

 

[OTL]

This is what most fans had a problem with when it came to the super league. They wanted a closed shop.

Sport should be a meritocracy, you should always earn it otherwise it detracts from the achievement.

Also you lose a lot from the competition without jeopardy. How many times has the premier league relegation battle been more exciting than the title race?

Oh and screw the ‘legacy clubs’ and their entitlement even if we are included.

You are of course correct and i know my view is unfair but i cant help myself

 

[OTL]

Couldnt disagree more, theres no way any competition should be closed shop, not club has a right to be in the CL ahead of any other.

You are of course correct and i know my view is unfair but i cant help myself 

 

[SydneyChelsea]

Theyve manipulated the CL to be almost exactly what the clubs wanted, next step is "Legacy" clubs being exempt from qualification, the big teams will be in it every season no matter what.

This was the main (and for me, only) sticking point regarding the proposed Super League, and yet UEFA are effectively introducing the same concept by stealth.

 

[Bob stark]

This was the main (and for me, only) sticking point regarding the proposed Super League, and yet UEFA are effectively introducing the same concept by stealth.

The reality is nobody really care about fair competition. Super League, UEFA are the same. It is all about

 

[dermott]

This was the main (and for me, only) sticking point regarding the proposed Super League, and yet UEFA are effectively introducing the same concept by stealth.

Hence, they think, seeing off the Super League threat to their control.

 

[SydneyChelsea]

Hence, they think, seeing off the Super League threat to their control.

Yeah, I think the CWC is FIFA's cynical ploy to entice the new breed of club owner/investor with guaranteed prizemoney

 

[dermott]

Yeah, I think the CWC is FIFA's cynical ploy to entice the new breed of club owner/investor with guaranteed prizemoney

Infantino almost makes one pine for the simpler times of Blatter. Exit a corrupt little man, enter a megalomaniac.

 

[dkw]

This was the main (and for me, only) sticking point regarding the proposed Super League, and yet UEFA are effectively introducing the same concept by stealth.

The CL will be the Super League in everything but name, they are slipping in the changes to appease the SL clubs basically.

 

[bisright1]

Yeah, I think the CWC is FIFA's cynical ploy to entice the new breed of club owner/investor with guaranteed prizemoney

Im just still baffled why they limited it to only 2 teams per country

If they'd made that 3 you'd have seen Barcelona and Liverpool (and Napoli I think) in the competition and then absolutely no one could have complained about the "biggest" teams not being there.

Instead the 2 per country rule meant Salzburg were there instead

It makes zero sense to me because FIFA are not usually that commercially naive.

 

[terraloon]

Apologies if it’s been posted elsewhere but UEFA have changed squad rules for 25/26

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UEFA Introduce New Champions League Rule: Liverpool, Chel...UEFA’s Executive Committee has introduced a change to squad registration rules for men’s club competitions, permitting a temporary replacement in case of illnes
I don’t think we will be able to replace Colwill but pretty sure we can replace Essugo from our A list and if I am right it means that Bounatte will now be added to our CL squad.

 

[The Don Antonio]

it makes u wonder why they signed him for the amount of games he’s going to play and the fact we’re paying Sterling over 300k pw to hand the bibs out.

i think the problem is delap got injured and so Guiu took the spot that was meant for buonanote