Bring back the european cup winner's cup?

well if united won the premiership, barcelona won la liga, ac milan won seria a and bayern won the german league they would all be in it!

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but then you would have no city, no real, no dortmund and no juventus.

i do see where you are coming from with your OP.

if i was to change it i would make it the top 2 teams qualify only.

Why exactly do people want the format changed? I have never really seen someome give a good reason.

if i was to change it i would make it the top 2 teams qualify only.
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I would argue that the group stage already suffers a bit from a lack of quality and even games. Taking out 8 or 9 teams and replacing them with lower quality teams would make it even worse.
In this case you would have to cut the number of teams in the group stage down.

Why exactly do people want the format changed? I have never really seen someome give a good reason.
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They see the word "Champions" in the competition title and get all píssy about it.

no matter what anyone says european cup for champions is a joke.

It will be a cakewalk for many teams, totally inferior to the current CL.

DJeezus is right, people get precious over the champions tag, especially pool fans, they need to accept the current CL gives the best quality football anywhere around the world.

Bring back the Herbert Chapman Trophy

Would love to see a genuine league of say 16 of Europe's champions and the rest go into a merge of CL and EL. It will help to deter top players from simply going to a top four side just because they have CL football and restore a balance. Of course it means less money so to hell with that ever happening.

Maybe they should just rename it the European League Cup as very few national champions win it and your qualification is based on league placing and not trophy success. And then they could call the Europa League the UEFA Cup Winners Cup.

I respect any team that eventually wins the 'Big One' but feel it's a little tainted if you have only qualified by finishing 4th in your domestic competition miles behind other teams.'Champion' should stand for something but in the case of the CL it does not.

the only thing wrong with the current CL format is the amount of money it gives the participants.

I'm not surprised that an Evertonian would endorse this.

It was a poor competition that was righly removed from football just as all the winners should remove it from their honours page