Liverpool in Pot 2 in next season's CL, Where do we go?

[Bill]

the username is a f******* username nowt serious. the media love in is because of all ex players being critics on these television shows. we are a sleeping giant of english football. the fans of our club are very passionate, and sometimes over the top. I for one never said we'd won owt yet and dont dislike city at all.
have some decency, murderers?? scouse cunts?? terrible that....

Time for some home truths jimi.

Up until the last few weeks your fans have been silent. Sorry but it's true. Been many times to klanfield.

UEFA will protect you.

Although cunts ( your fans were a disgrace the other week) we shouldn't be calling you murders etc.

And lastly you are banned as I think you have booted off before.

 

[Blue Haze]

Manchester City rise to pot two for next season's Champions League draw


The Premier League champions have been moved into pot two for next season's group stage draw, with Arsenal and Chelsea retaining their pot one status
Manchester City have risen from pot three to pot two for next season’s Champions League draw, a first for the newly crowned champions of England.

Having reached the knockout stages in this year’s competition, the cash-rich Premier League giants have earned enough points in Uefa’s ranking system - which is based on a club’s results in the competition over the previous five seasons - to move from pot three to pot two. The domestic troubles of the likes of AC Milan and Inter have also aided City's rise in the draw.

This will reduce the chances of City falling into another 'group of deat', a fate that has seen them drawn in the same group as Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid in their last two Champions League campaigns.

Despite their elevation, Manuel Pellegrini’s side remain below London clubs Arsenal and Chelsea, who, after earning enough points over the last few campaigns, have retained their pot one status.

Whilst this signals another step forward in the seemingly unstoppable rise of City, the Champions League draw will be markedly more difficult for Liverpool, who return to the competition for the first time in four years. Brendan Rodgers' side will face the possibility of being drawn against European giants Bayern Munich and Juventus, or Paris Saint- Germain and Real Madrid, whilst a kinder draw would see them face Benfica or Porto from pot one.

As a result of their absence from the competition, the Merseysiders are 32nd in Uefa’s coefficient rankings, and will most likely be drawn from pot three in next season’s draw.

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Not sure if already posted. Good news

 

[buckshot]

Somehow City will still get a tougher draw than the dippers.

 

[kawkav]

1------FC Barcelona
2------FC Bayern München
3------Real Madrid CF
4------Chelsea FC
5------SL Benfica
6-------Club Atlético de Madrid
7(PO)---Arsenal FC
8(PO)---FC Porto
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POT 2:
9------FC Schalke 04
10------Borussia Dortmund
11------Paris Saint-Germain
12------Juventus
13------FC Shakhtar Donestk
14------FC Basel
15(3rd Q)------FC Zenit
16------Manchester City FC
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POT 3:
17(PO)--Bayer 04 Leverkusen
18------Olympiacos FC
19-----CSKA Moscow
20------AFC Ajax
21(PO)---SSC Napoli
22------Liverpool FC
23------Sporting Clube de Portugal
24-----Galatasaray AŞ
-----------------------------------------------------
POT 4: in no particular order(co-ef)

25(PO)---Athletic Club Bilbao
26------Anderlecht(44)
27------AS Roma(55)
28------Monaco(new)
29(3rd Q)---Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk(70)
30(3rd Q)---Grasshopper (168)
31(3rd Q)---Panathinaikos (76)
32(3rd Q)---Feyenoord (134)
33(3rd Q)---Beşiktaş (66)
34(3rd Q)---Standard Liège (60)
35(3rd Q)---Red Bull Salzburg (46)
36(3rd Q)---AaB (249)
37(3rd Q)---AEL Limassol (207)
38(3rd Q)---APOEL (58)
39(3rd Q)---Midtjylland (228)
40(3rd Q)---Lille(49)


As things stand we will be in POT 2 and the Dippers will be in POT 3


Updated the table above as for May 18

this includes (22 direct entry)

13 champions from associations 1–13
6 runners-up from associations 1–6
3 third-placed teams from associations 1–3

and (5 play off spots)

2 third-placed teams from associations 4–5
3 fourth-placed teams from associations 1–3

and (13 third qualifying round)

So even if Arsenal, Porto, Napoli, Leverkusen and Zenit fail to qualify; Dippers still won't make it to pot 2.

end of.

 

[sam-caddick]

Pot one teams are going to have a tough pot two draw whoever they get.

Pot 4 looks tough as well with Bilbao, Roma and Monaco.

There are no easy games in the Champions League but I am really hoping we get dealt a draw in which enables us to really try and be able to grab top seed.

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

Highly unlikely they'll be in Pot 2. They need about three seeded teams to go out in the qualifiers for that to happen.

Yeah but they're Liverpool, they've won it 5 times.

5 times you say. Why has no-one mentioned this before?

5 times where they used to get Byes in the first round. A team made up of Postmen or Teachers from Ireland in the second, then the army side from an East European Country before playing anything like serious opposition in the last 8 or last 4.

 

[Vienna_70]

Yeah but they're Liverpool, they've won it 5 times.

5 times you say. Why has no-one mentioned this before?

5 times where they used to get Byes in the first round. A team made up of Postmen or Teachers from Ireland in the second, then the army side from an East European Country before playing anything like serious opposition in the last 8 or last 4.

And when they were drawn against a top side in the first round - Nottingham Forest in 1978-79 - they lost.

 

[Bilboblue]

Benfica, Olympiacos and Anderlecht please, thanks.

 

[whp.blue]

Liverpool are 32nd in the European coefficient. Pot 3/4.

and next year they need to get out of the group stage just to stand still as the following year they will loose 25 of their 58 points
and the rags will be hit massively by scoring zero points next season they could over the next two seasons effectively see their points halved pushing them towards pot 3
the five year coefficient meant to protect them could really bite them in the arse that zero will drag them down for five years

god bless wee Davey I really miss him

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

god bless wee Davey I really miss him

We all do, mate. We all do.