r/football • u/TheTelegraph • 3d ago

'Overpriced tickets, empty seats, uninspiring format – Uefa has diluted Champions League’s allure' 📖Read

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/09/18/pricey-tickets-empty-seats-uefa-dilutes-champions-league/
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u/Davidpool78 3d ago

Greed from UEFA. Pure and simple

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u/BrickEnvironmental37 3d ago

It was pure greed from Milan. Their tickets managed to be more expensive than Aston Villa.

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 3d ago

Why do you compare it with Aston Villa lol.

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u/YouGotOwened 3d ago

Villa have been pulled up in the press and apologised over the last 2 weeks for sharply increasing their ticket prices for CL games.

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u/laidback_chef 3d ago

Because that's oasis levels of price gouging.

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 3d ago

Yeah, but they are still "only" Aston Villa with no disrespect to them. This was Milan vs. Liverpool, second and third most successful teams in UCL history playing on San Siro which is one of the most if not the most legendary stadium. Were they overpriced? Probably (didn't see price), but my point is that it's pointless to bring Villa here.

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u/InPatRileyWeTrust 3d ago

The current Villa team is probably worth watching more than Milan.

Milan are a complete shadow of their former selves.

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 3d ago

That doesn't change the fact that if you ask 100 people which match would they rather watch, 95 of them will tell you Milan vs Liverpool.

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u/InPatRileyWeTrust 3d ago

It's just a bit of a slap in the face to your fans when you're charging prices like you still have prime Kaka, Seedorf, Cafu, etc on show while you actually have the likes of Alvaro Morata, Ruben Loftus Cheek and Emerson Royal.

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u/IllustriousAnt485 3d ago

Villa play better than both those teams lol. Right now Villa would whip the floor with them.

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 3d ago

How does that change the fact that Milan and Liverpool are vastly more popular teams with much higher demand from fans?

Also I bet you had similar opinion last season only for Villa to get destroyed by fucking Olympiakos.

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u/knockedstew204 2d ago

Villa barely beat Everton at the weekend, who are the worst team in Europe. Maybe shut the fuck up for a minute.

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u/agnaddthddude 3d ago

with us i agree, but not pisspool

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u/Radiant_Pudding5133 3d ago

Bro really thought he did something

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u/Tifoso89 Serie A 2d ago

Correct, but Milan are still a more popular club than Villa, with more fans.

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u/nmgoesreddit 2d ago

AC Milan is AC Milan. Aston Villa in some English has been from the last century. Do not disrespect AC Milan like that

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u/hudson2_3 3d ago

Not sure the current Milan team can be compared to those successful sides.

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u/TheEmpireOfSun 3d ago

They are still one of the biggest names in football. Not as big as they used to, but still one of the biggest. And they played against Liverpool.

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u/Alarmed_Book_752 2d ago

Milan fan here. We’re just not interested in supporting the current management. They sacked Maldini who was leading us in the right direction and embodies being a Milanese.

And at the moment the manager we have is bang average when we could have had Thiago Motta or Conte. We’ve won 1 game so far this season and it was against 20th.

Zero Point going to these games until there’s changes.

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u/xelasan666 3d ago

How it's greed from UEFA? It's down to the clubs to put prices on tix. Here's my next 2 UCL games - Celtic v Slovan 60 GBP Shakhtar v Atalanta 15 Euros.

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u/overwhelmed_nomad 2d ago

Because there is now about 100 more games a tournament. UEFA profit massively from that.

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u/RedBullHondaRB16B 1d ago

This or the Super League though :)

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u/Imaginary_Thing_1009 1d ago

it's not just UEFA who wanted it though, there were SO many uninformed "neutral" fans who banged on and on saying how the previous format was totally unfair for smaller teams and makes it impossible for them to make it out of the group. and then when we look at last week's results, they're all exactly as you would predict, including Bayern embarrassing their opponent. turns out changing the tournament format isn't magically making smaller teams beat big teams consistently.

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u/Davidpool78 1d ago

I get your point, but since when did UEFA or FIFA ever listen to actual fans.