Don't think it works for anyone. We wouldn't have been able to sign Aguero, Nasri, Clichy, Demichelis, Otamendi, Bernardo, Sane, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Ederson, Walker, Cancelo etc off the top of my head.The bit i dont get is who is pushing for the transfer restriction. I see that blocking big CL teams from being able to sell players and if they can't sell then they can't buy. Over time it would just block up the top clubs. The feeder clubs would most likely suffer the most. So who is pushing for that.
It's not in "groups" it's one group of 36, and you are drawn against 10 of them was my understanding.
Oh right expect that would be seeded?
So its just about money, nothing to do with champions, thought so.This would be an absolutely shit idea, and you only need to think it through for a minute to realise that.
There is no sporting value in excluding Barcelona in order to include Tre Fiori, champions of 55th placed country San Marino. There's absolutely no point. No one would watch it, they can't host a televised game, good players would be injured by part timers and it would be a double figures scoreline.
Bayern smashing through the champions of Albania, Belarus, Malta and Hungary before finally getting a half interesting draw in Ajax or someone is just a shit tournament.
There is a very good reason the old European Cup format was ditched and it's because most of the games were foregone conclusions - and that was 35 years ago when some Eastern European club having a 50,000 seater stadium made them a rich club who could compete with the champions of Germany or Italy
And by the way it would absolutely ruin all those domestic leagues, because whoever got into the first edition would get so much money, they'd never be caught - which is what's already happened in a bunch of the smaller leagues who get CL places.
So its just about money, nothing to do with champions, thought so.
Some clubs need to sell to surviveThe wildcard idea is wank, even though City have the highest coefficient of any English club. And CL clubs not selling players to each other is also another wank idea, how can that work in reality?
I would guess the fans of the champions of Andorra? Why not go the whole hog and have a league of, Bayern, Dortmund, juve, Milan, barca, Madrid, United, arsenal, Liverpool and ajax.Sorry but who gives a fuck about the champions of Andorra?
The idea behind the European cup has always been to put the best sides in Europe against each other. The first tournaments, the clubs were picked by a magazine FFS.
Owners. Take away transfer fees and clubs look very profitable, while taking away any incentiveto increase wages. Also itd be part of a collection of us style moves that give owners huge powers over their players. Restricting players mobility always benefits the owners.The bit i dont get is who is pushing for the transfer restriction. I see that blocking big CL teams from being able to sell players and if they can't sell then they can't buy. Over time it would just block up the top clubs. The feeder clubs would most likely suffer the most. So who is pushing for that.