Didnt they mention plans to make the UEFA better last year?
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sammyspurs said:Didnt they mention plans to make the UEFA better last year?
MKYid said:It amazes me how UEFA/FIFA can't understand why the Europa is considered a 'lesser' competition to the CL, yet they allow teams knocked out of the CL in (by doing so, essentially stating 'this is a secondary competition')! I personally think, if UEFA want the Europa league taken more seriously, a Champions League place should be on offer for the winners.
Completely this! only, I can't see how they're gonna work in more games to the tourney, the qualifying knockouts are packed, and if you're gonna bring one extra team into the group stages you kinda have to change the way the group system works... Either increase or decrease group size, or even make an entirely new group, but that leaves winner and runner-up of that group with opponents for the first knockout and so on... getting a headache already!MKYid said:It amazes me how UEFA/FIFA can't understand why the Europa is considered a 'lesser' competition to the CL, yet they allow teams knocked out of the CL in (by doing so, essentially stating 'this is a secondary competition')! I personally think, if UEFA want the Europa league taken more seriously, a Champions League place should be on offer for the winners.
zin said:sammyspurs said:Didnt they mention plans to make the UEFA better last year?
Home and away group stages and direct qualification into group stages based on league placing.
nail.S.L.R said:Something along the lines of "we're trying to figure out ways of making more money from the competition"
SadlerTHFC said:SSN say Adebayor is injured for this game :jenaswtf:
Marshy said:I think the CL teams filtering down into the Europa League is dumb. If ur in one comp u shouldn't get a parachute tournament to end up in - if ur out of europe ur out of europe. For the teams that are going well in the Europa it's like moving the goalposts if u suddenly see a couple of big boys dumped into the comp.