I wouldn't be surprised if the entire thing was dreamt up as an excuse to impose hefty fines that the likes of City will be willing and able to pay. It would bump up Uefa's revenues big style and Twattini is nothing if not a money grabbing fornicator. He has gone half way to trashing the Champions League as it is. Thanks to this idiot, the likes of Shamrock Rovers and clubs of a similar size routinely qualify whilst clubs the size of Spurs and Dipperpool do not. And this situation is all down to the fact that Twattini added a load of utterly pointless games. The more games there are, the higher the television revenues and the higher the tv revenues, the more Uefa can enrich itself with it's share of this income. The result has been dead rubbers and mismatches galore at the group stages. Meanwhile, letting the minnows in and then seeding the group stages ensures that not too many of the bigger clubs will crash out before we get to the knockout stage. Admittedly, the group stages have been slightly more interesting this time round but generally speaking, too many matches are spectacularly tedious until we get to the final two match days.
TWATTINI AND UEFA ARE ALL ABOUT SELF-ENRICHMENT AND THAT IS ALL!