Al-Nassr to be (maybe) invited into the 2024/25 Champions League?

[Cellarite]

Ceferin vetoes Saudi Arabia: Only European clubs can enter Champions League, Europa League and Conference League

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has discussed the current situation in football, particularly focusing on the emerging Saudi Arabian league and the new season of the Champions Le

www.marca.com

This was weeks ago. How on earth have we got a thread about it this week with the outraged folk barking at the moon?

 

[jimharri]

This was weeks ago. How on earth have we got a thread about it this week with the outraged folk barking at the moon?

The tweet I linked to was dated last tuesday. Did I miss something?

 

[N1985]

Competition is a fucking farce anyway, if it means we make a few more quid I'm all for it. Game went years ago, especially is Europe. Great to win it but give me the Prem any day of the week

 

[Cobwebcat]

The tweet I linked to was dated last tuesday. Did I miss something?

Could be the word “tweet” ;-)

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

It wasn’t a test, it was a shite rumour made up by some absolutely nobody on twitter that got retweeted by all the football rumour accounts and then loads of media illiterate people flying off the handle because they didn’t bother checking the obviously bollocks rumour was bollocks before they just swallowed the whole thing. Then UEFA, which has already made it clear that the idea is bollocks several times, has had to come out and issue another denial of this thing that isn’t going to happen.

It would have been refreshing if UEFA had simply responded with the refute: 'Load.Of.Bollocks!'

 

[East Level 2]

It would have been refreshing if UEFA had simply responded with the refute: 'Load.Of.Bollocks!'

Perhaps UEFA should have said "Find the clowns who believe this shite and laugh at them for being utter numpties".
However UEFA have some previous when it comes to silly ideas.

 

[m7mcfc]

Fecking bollax is it a Ronaldo thing? I've never heard anything so ridiculous. They are from Saudi Arabia play in your own continent.

 

[Cellarite]

The tweet I linked to was dated last tuesday. Did I miss something?

Yep. Ceferin saying about 3 weeks ago that no none European teams would be allowed in.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Competition is a fucking farce anyway, if it means we make a few more quid I'm all for it. Game went years ago, especially is Europe. Great to win it but give me the Prem any day of the week

Next season’s format sounds utterly shite.

The CL is great in the quarters and semis. Belting games in them. The Bayern home game last season was electric in atmosphere and the standard of football was the highest I’ve ever seen.

The final always seems anticlimactic and tense.

 

[jimharri]

Yep. Ceferin saying about 3 weeks ago that no none European teams would be allowed in.

I did miss that. If I had seen that back then, I wouldn't have made my earlier post.