New Champions League format

[Centurions]

I've got a wild idea if the current format is getting stale, how about the champions of all 55 uefa countries plus the previous champion start in round 1 with no co-efficient bias, 8 teams get drawn a bye, the others play each other in a 2 legged tie winner through to the next round until we reach a winner crowned champion of Europe.

Ahhh but that doesn't keep the rich rich does it.

It wouldn't even need a name change strangely enough.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

can we all at least be in agreement that the thread title needs correcting?

 

[Gray]

can we all at least be in agreement that the thread title needs correcting?

I can go along with that, who does any proof checking these days?

 

[domalino]

I've got a wild idea if the current format is getting stale, how about the champions of all 55 uefa countries plus the previous champion start in round 1 with no co-efficient bias, 8 teams get drawn a bye, the others play each other in a 2 legged tie winner through to the next round until we reach a winner crowned champion of Europe.

Ahhh but that doesn't keep the rich rich does it.

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.

 

[domalino]

Seems like they are purely in the spit-balling dumb ideas stage -

Agnelli also stressed that football must think of ways to attract younger viewers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. “We could imagine a subscription for the last 15 minutes of a specific game,” he said. “The attention span of today’s kids and tomorrow’s spenders is completely different to the one I had when I was their age.​

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“If you take golf, if it’s interesting at all, it’s only the last six holes on the final day. You are not going to watch the whole thing on the TV unless you are a hardcore fan.”​

 

[waspish]

On transfers bans between clubs in the same competition, would it not force up transfer fees for teams looking to recruit players outside of the champions league as the pool of players you can buy gets smaller?

I can’t see Madrid and Barca voting for this as being able to take the very best players in Europe away from the better teams has been their policy for years.

what will happen is if that club Agrees with the sale all is good! This means likes of us who want to buy a Sterling of Liverpool won’t happen because Liverpool won’t agree with it where as selling him to Madrid they will say yeah that’s fine. That’s how they manipulate it into the cosy history clubs advantage!

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

what will happen is if that club Agrees with the sale all is good! This means likes of us who want to buy a Sterling of Liverpool won’t happen because Liverpool won’t agree with it where as selling him to Madrid they will say yeah that’s fine. That’s how they manipulate it into the cosy history clubs advantage!

Other thing what happens if one of the champions league club wants to offload a player? Would they want to go and play for a club that doesn’t have champions league football? Surely it’s a restriction of work, it’s an absolute pigs ear they’ve put together.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Simon Stone so be warned.

Basics...

Increase to 36 teams each team to play 10 games against "teams of varying strengths".

2 legged play off games after that.

Reducing domestic leagues to 18 teams (PL have already said no to this).

2 "wildcard" teams decided on co-efficient.

How do you play 10 games when there are 36 teams?

4x groups of 9 = 36. If you play the 8 other teams in your group of 9 you have 8 games?

If you play 10 teams in a group of 11 then the total No of teams would be a multiple of 11.

Anyone else struggling to get passed this.

 

[ganganvince]

How do you play 10 games when there are 36 teams?

4x groups of 9 = 36. If you play the 8 other teams in your group of 9 you have 8 games?

If you play 10 teams in a group of 11 then the total No of teams would be a multiple of 11.

Anyone else struggling to get passed this.

6 groups of 6 maybe

 

[aguero93:20]

See another one of his ideas is to prohinit transfers between champions league clubs.
Claims it will help the "smaller " clubs financially

EU, restriction of trade, Bosman mk 2. You can't ban someone from taking up different employment of their choice.