Yeah, that's fucking stupid. I already thought the 'dropping into Europa league' was daft, but this compounds it! So some team who did well last year can fuck up how many games until they are in the latter stages of the conference? 9? 10? They shouldn't be 'rewarded' (cough) by being able to steal a trophy from the lesser teams.What's especially stupid about the way UEFA has set this up is that a club like Benfica or Monaco could drop out of the Champions League in the qualifying stages, end up in the Europa League group stages, finish third, and drop into the Conference League knockout stages.
The movement between competitions is misguided.
In layman's terms: any team going to the CL gets 3 chances to win a cup, playing progressively shitter teams all the way down. Nah, bollocks, they had their chance, now fuck off.