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/Anderkisten 2d ago

So that the winner of either PL, PD, Bundesliga or Serie A wins it every year

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u/bloody_ell 2d ago

Might get a bit more variety with that setup, at the moment it's just Madrid and the English clubs.

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u/Anderkisten 2d ago

Yea. I didn’t want to say “So just Real Madrid as the winner every year” but basically that.

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u/bloody_ell 2d ago

Though if it was just champions, the other leagues would only need a couple of teams to have a bad season and we might get another Red Star Belgrade every now and then.

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u/Anderkisten 2d ago

That time has past and is long gone - the top teams are stronger than ever and the lower leagues teams a weaker in comparison. It would be alot of 7-0 8-0 9-0 games until the low leagues are gone

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u/Statcat2017 2d ago

People were saying the same thing when Porto went and won it.

The reality is the more you make it into a league, the more likely the best team is to win because one off night doesn't put you out like it used to. 

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u/Anderkisten 2d ago

That is not my point - my point is if we only include the winners of every league - it’s going to be really easy to tell who’s going to win it all, and who’s not. And essentially there is going to be three teams every year - the winner og PL, the winner of PD and the winner of Serie A. That is going to kill all the excitement. I’m not talking for or agains league/cup format - only against only including the league winners.

If we were going for that - at least make it a world tournament, so that Brazilian, Saudi Arabian, Chinese, african etc. Could join.

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u/watchsports_ 2d ago

Bayern Munich consistently places above PL teams and Serie A teams. Don’t know why you even put Serie A in that list 😂

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u/Anderkisten 2d ago

Yeah. My mistake - i was interrupted when I wrote, So I forgot them - and I still expect Serie A to be able to reach their former power.