Champions League Draw (Cont...)

[City Raider]

Champions League Draw

This post is so short sighted. So you with a nice draw you would have had a good shot of making the semi. That's an extra 6 million in prize money alone. Then that does not take into account the gate receipts, the bonuses you get from sponsors, the increase in fans and TV money. It's a huge hit.

Plus with an easier draw, because this draw is stupidly hard, you would still face the likes of Madrid and Barca, just later on.

crystal love dont take this the wrong way but......

No it's fine. I am a huge, huge football fan and watch as much as I can. I used to live in Manchester for close to 5 years and don't mind City, since I am not a big lover of Manchester United and appreciate how tough it is supporting a smaller club when your rivals win so much more. I've got a couple more weeks off work and things can be boring when all your mates are still working. So not much to do except talk on different football forums till the start of the term.

wtf!

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Champions League Draw

I'm absolutely buzzing about our draw. There are only so many years that we'll be a Pot 2 club. In a decades time we may well have won this competition and even if we haven't our ranking points would see us be a Pot 1 club and we'll have boring and predicable groups year after year.

I'd rather pay £120+ to watch us play Real Madrid, Amsterdam Ajax and Borussia Dortmund with players like CRonaldo, Erikson and Lewandowski; rather than the likes of Cluj and Nordsælland with players like Kapetanos and Kildentoft. We spent a few decades in certain divisions playing teams with grounds and players we've never heard of so why do we want to do that again now we're an elite club?

For now while we still can get these kind of groups, this is exactly the kind of group I want.

Plus it's not like the money changes massively as the rounds of he competition progress. This is how the prize money was structured last season:
Playoffs: €2,100,000
Group stage: €3,900,000
For each match in group stage: €550,000
Group match victory: €800,000
Group match draw: €400,000
Round of 16: €3,000,000
Quarter-finals: €3,300,000
Semi-finals: €4,200,000
Losing finalist: €5,600,000
Winning the Final: €9,000,000
...actually progressing through the Group Stage to play in the Round of 16 you only earn an extra £2.37m. That's fuck all.

Besides, it's not like we're the Ajax of the group. We were third favourites to win the competition this morning. All three teams in our group will be more disappointed to have us than we feel about drawing them. Anyone who doesn't think we can qualify from this group doesn't realise how good we are. You don't win 28 games in the Premier League if you're not a very good team. With Carlos back (he missed 35 games in all comps last season) he's like a new signing and is at another level compared to players like Mario and Edin, and throughout our squad we will have learnt a lot from last season's competition and through winning the league. We are much better prepared this season for the Champions League.

Even if we don't progress it's not the end of the world because we're not in this competition for a few seasons and that will be us out. We're going to be qualifying for this competition every year for the foreseeable future. Every hard game we play, every year we make mistakes and lose games; we will learn and become a better team and club long term.

So you can keep your 5,000 Haradski Stadium and give me the 85000 Santiago Bernabéu Stadium anytime.

I cannot fucking wait. This is exactly why I was jumping for joy on 31st August 2008.

Well said, the best post I've read this week by a long shot. especially the bit in blue.

 

[hackneyslim]

Re: Champions League Draw

Hello Guys,

Let me introduce myself. I am from The Netherlands and I'm a die-hard Ajax fan. I was curious on how you felt about the draw so I looked around a little bit and I came to this topic.

I am very happy with this draw even though I think we really don't stand an chance against Man. City. I would like to give you all some more information about AFC Ajax because I think that you only know us from our years of glory.

Ajax doesn't buy very much players because we have one of the best youth academies in the world and the clubs in Holland really don't have that much money to buy the best players.

We've sold 2 of our best players this summer (Jan Vertonghen, Vurnon Anita) but we kept 1 of our rising stars. His name is Christian Eriksen and he is 20 years old. He is a left-footed attacking midfielder.

Well, enough about Ajax. I wish you all the best of luck in the Champions League and I hope we will both pass the group stage. Enjoy all the good things of Amsterdam ;-)

And good luck to you, too. Cheers.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Champions League Draw

Hello Guys,

Let me introduce myself. I am from The Netherlands and I'm a die-hard Ajax fan. I was curious on how you felt about the draw so I looked around a little bit and I came to this topic.

I am very happy with this draw even though I think we really don't stand an chance against Man. City. I would like to give you all some more information about AFC Ajax because I think that you only know us from our years of glory.

Ajax doesn't buy very much players because we have one of the best youth academies in the world and the clubs in Holland really don't have that much money to buy the best players.

We've sold 2 of our best players this summer (Jan Vertonghen, Vurnon Anita) but we kept 1 of our rising stars. His name is Christian Eriksen and he is 20 years old. He is a left-footed attacking midfielder.

Well, enough about Ajax. I wish you all the best of luck in the Champions League and I hope we will both pass the group stage. Enjoy all the good things of Amsterdam ;-)

Thanks for taking the time to post that mate, you will be made welcome here by most and good luck to you too, enjoy the good things of Manchester.

 

[big gaz]

Re: Champions League Draw

Well said Danburger82, but is there anything to do in Amsterdam to keep me happy ;-)

 

[Blue Mooner]

Re: Champions League Draw

Before we play Arsenal in the league we play Real Madrid
Before we play Chelsea in the league we play Real Madrid
Before we play the rags in the league we play Dortmund

Coincidence? I think not. We are being shafted.

 

[AjaxFan]

Re: Champions League Draw

Hello Guys,

Let me introduce myself. I am from The Netherlands and I'm a die-hard Ajax fan. I was curious on how you felt about the draw so I looked around a little bit and I came to this topic.

I am very happy with this draw even though I think we really don't stand an chance against Man. City. I would like to give you all some more information about AFC Ajax because I think that you only know us from our years of glory.

Ajax doesn't buy very much players because we have one of the best youth academies in the world and the clubs in Holland really don't have that much money to buy the best players.

We've sold 2 of our best players this summer (Jan Vertonghen, Vurnon Anita) but we kept 1 of our rising stars. His name is Christian Eriksen and he is 20 years old. He is a left-footed attacking midfielder.

Well, enough about Ajax. I wish you all the best of luck in the Champions League and I hope we will both pass the group stage. Enjoy all the good things of Amsterdam ;-)

Thanks for taking the time to post that mate, you will be made welcome here by most and good luck to you too, enjoy the good things of Manchester.

I certainly will enjoy the good things of manchester. Last year we showed the United scum how to play football but I think it will be harder to win against City.

 

[big gaz]

Re: Champions League Draw

Before we play Arsenal in the league we play Real Madrid
Before we play Chelsea in the league we play Real Madrid
Before we play the rags in the league we play Dortmund

Coincidence? I think not. We are being shafted.

Know where you're coming from but the others have to play as well, and as they say cream floats to the top, was that cream ;-)

 

[law74]

Re: Champions League Draw

Hello Guys,

Let me introduce myself. I am from The Netherlands and I'm a die-hard Ajax fan. I was curious on how you felt about the draw so I looked around a little bit and I came to this topic.

I am very happy with this draw even though I think we really don't stand an chance against Man. City. I would like to give you all some more information about AFC Ajax because I think that you only know us from our years of glory.

Ajax doesn't buy very much players because we have one of the best youth academies in the world and the clubs in Holland really don't have that much money to buy the best players.

We've sold 2 of our best players this summer (Jan Vertonghen, Vurnon Anita) but we kept 1 of our rising stars. His name is Christian Eriksen and he is 20 years old. He is a left-footed attacking midfielder.

Well, enough about Ajax. I wish you all the best of luck in the Champions League and I hope we will both pass the group stage. Enjoy all the good things of Amsterdam ;-)

Thanks for taking the time to post that mate, you will be made welcome here by most and good luck to you too, enjoy the good things of Manchester.

I certainly will enjoy the good things of manchester. Last year we showed the United scum how to play football but I think it will be harder to win against City.

You know how to make yourself popular on here lol, though I have to agree with you as it will be a group that all four sides will think they can at least progress from, and possibly win. All great clubs, great grounds and will be a very tight group. Enjoy the trip.

 

[Dutchviking]

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Hell yeah, thrilled with this draw!

First of all good luck to you guys, a lot of Ajax fans are dreading the matches already. It's by far the most ecxiting group in the CL. 4 champions, 14 CL titles combined and a big bunch of the best players and talents worldwide.

We (Ajax) lost a couple of good players this summer and we're working with loads of youth prospects. With Eriksen, Sana, Serero, Fisher and Boilesen, we have some of the best youngsters in the world i think. I don't think we'll survive the winter in Europe, but it's a great experience for such a young team to play against Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso, Balotelli, Aguero, Kompany and Götze.

You lot have by far the best players and the best team, but i think maybe we give you a good struggle because we're playing a positive kind of football, we have the philosophy to play attacking football with loads of ball possesion. I think you can compare us to Swansea.

Can't wait to seeing you lot in the Sodom and Gomorra of the world, our beautiful Capital Amsterdam ;-)