New Champions League format

viv_andersons_nana said:
Also I don't quite see how a ban on players transferring between two 'Champions League' teams can be implemented? Surely it would be a restriction of trade anyway, at some point, from but a player's point of view - how are you going to buy someone for life? Do Inter buy Thiago from Liverpool... forever? How does he move clubs in future? If he runs his contract down there won't be a fee so I can't see how a club would vote for that. Or am I missing something with that?
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The idea of a transfer ban between Champions League teams, and selling the last 15 minutes of a match are two of the maddest things I've read in weeks.

As if Real Madrid are going to agree to never be able to sign a player from one of the other 32 CL clubs, ever again.

Hard to believe this kind of nonsense is spoken in public by someone with a senior position at one of the chequebook galactico clubs... I mean Juventus aren't exactly Ajax or RB Leipzig, they don't produce their own players. It's insane and so unworkable it's not even funny.

And selling the last 15 minutes... The only way this would work is if goals count double for that period or some ****. We've all watched a lot of football in our time and the last 15 minutes are usually one team cruising at 2-0 up, passing the ball between centre backs, while the other team think about their shower. Would anyone in their right mind tune in for only the last 15 minutes of a City match?!
 
I'd definitely get shot of group seeding and not allowing teams from the same country to play each other.

You imagine the big guns sweating over a group of death. They need some way of making it actually interesting.

Let's have Liverpool / Chelsea and City drawn in the same group😂. They won't do that for fear of 'good' sides crashing out.
 
www.bbc.co.uk

Shortest press conference ever? No questions for Porto's Conceicao

After his team knock Juventus out of the Champions League, Porto coach Sergio Conceicao attends the post-match press conference - but receives no questions.
www.bbc.co.uk

Porto knock out one of the biggest teams against the odds, not a single journalist has a question for them. Says it all.
Huge result, but still all the interest is on the team that was knocked out.

I presume they were all at the Juventus press conference asking why Ronaldo was useless.
 
I wish they’d all just go and be done with it. Once they go, however, there’s no coming back. If players want to play in that environment then fair do’s, you can’t play for your national team - if you want to go dance with the devil you make your choice and you keep going til the music stops. They can have their closed shop 24 club ring-a-roses circle jerk played out in Thailand or wherever or in Europe at 3am ‘for our loyal Asain tv audience’.

Meanwhile, in the real world where there are ideals higher than greed, the rest of Europe’s proper football clubs can get on with the sport; domestic national leagues and cup competitions, European Champions cup (KO), uefa cup (KO) and cup winners cup (KO) and all unseeded. I know which will be more exciting and interesting to football fans.
 
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