Europe's "Major" teams want automatic Champions League qualification

[2sheikhs]

Yeah, it's about as democratic as North Korea.

 

[NorCalBlue]

They're going to call it the UsedToBe Champions League

"The Senior Tour"?

 

[the plasterer]

seems fair and square to me, i mean, uefa and corruption??, never

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Yep. Oh, and it's not a great step from there to 'invites' to say the Chinese Champions, or another team from an emerging market. Yep, just one big fucking fiddle.

Might as well invite the Harlem Globe Trotters! Or a WWE 11 with Hulk Hogan leading the line!

 

[coleridge]

You can guarantee we won't ever get an automatic entry and when it comes, the only other side to get in will be respective league winners so we finish top or miss out.

Just watch!

No worries. We'll be winning the Chinese Super League International Super Cup by then.

 

[davymcfc]

Surely can't happen but if it did I think it's the beginning of the end.

 

[Hoghead]

Cabaret and chicken in the basket fodder.

 

[Benarbia_is_god]

I'm done with football if anything like this happens. I like the line about avoiding stagnation then in the next line saying teams should be invited into the CL irrespective of their league position! The system works as it is, the best teams qualify each season and the leagues with the highest quality get more entrants, seems perfectly fair to me. Change the name to the European Super League if they wish but don't make it a closed shop.

 

[Innsbruckblue]

Fuck em, we just create our own UAE Invitational League. All clubs get 40m for entering and the winners 100m. Bye bye UEFA

Said something similar to our kid when he went mental after UEFA fined us. Would not surprise me if moves have already been made behind the scenes to set up a rival competition.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Rummenigge "A super league outside of the Champions League is being born. It will either be led by Uefa or by a separate entity, because there is a limit to how much money can be made."

So he even admits it's purely about making money. You'd like to think the fans wouldn't back this at all but sadly they would, particularly the fans of the clubs struggling to make the champions league every year. Liverpool fans for example would lap it up.

If there's any restructuring of the champions league to be made then it should be to make the champions league literal. I.e only the champions of each league gains entry, i recognise they'd be a lot of big clubs missing out particularly the spanish and English but it would also solve the problem of the Europa league being pointless.