If you think about Pep's time in charge and playing the biggest sides in Europe, we've played Barca twice in his first year, Madrid....that's it.
I want to see this side against Bayern, PSG, Juventus, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid. Big ties against the biggest names, the clubs whose pride will be dented if we win and the matches that let our players put down a marker against the best players in the world.
And I know that in part it's our own fault for getting knocked out by lesser sides, but even if we'd won those games we'd have maybe gotten 1 big tie each year. in 2020 we would have played Bayern and PSG, in 2018 we would have played Real Madrid in the final, 2017 we could have played Juventus and Real.
So if we'd won the tournament every single year, we'd have had 7 ties against the European heavyweights in 4 seasons.
In 2019 we could have won the whole thing only playing Schalke, Spurs, Ajax and Liverpool. Which is hardly the footballing equivalent of Ali vs. Foreman or Federer vs. Nadal, is it?
So I'm generally in favour of a format that lets us play the biggest clubs more often, even though I know the motivations behind it are simple greed and trying to stop situations like we have in the PL now with West Ham, Everton and Leicester all genuinely in with a chance of finishing top 4.