comment by Mamba - Here's one for you to suck on - Real Sosobad (U1282) (U13041)
posted 8 minutes ago
If Liverpool had won the league last year you would have them in pot 1 ahead of City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Juve, Barcelona, Madrid etc despite not being in the CL the 5 years before that?<br abp="350"><br abp="351">There is no perfect way to do this me thinks.
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exactly, if another City/Chel ski emerge and purchase their league title you have another team with little European pedigree in pot 1
this will devalue the competition as you don't even have to perform well in it to be seeded its pathetic really. City can fail to get out the group stages again and focus on the league win it and get seeded
It is the Champions League, so yes, if City don't win it, and don't win the PL they shouldn't be seeded pot 1.
A team endlessly failing in the League, pocketing the CL Cartel millions for sneaking in via qualifying, getting an easy draw via seeding, thus ensuring they get out of the group and pick up more Cartel points devalues a 'competition'.
If the aim of the whole season is to qualify for a competition you don't really have a go at winning seems faintly daft to me. We need different teams entering, and getting out of the group, not the same names every year. Might as well have a Euro Super League with no relegation. Lucrative but boring, suit some teams perfectly.
I still don't understand why they call it the Champions League when the also-rans get priority over actual Champions.
Surely, it's an indication that something is wrong with the current seeding if a team that hasn't won it's own domestic league for some time continues to be top-seeded?
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posted on 29/8/14
comment by Mamba - Here's one for you to suck on - Real Sosobad (U1282) (U13041)
posted 8 minutes ago
If Liverpool had won the league last year you would have them in pot 1 ahead of City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Juve, Barcelona, Madrid etc despite not being in the CL the 5 years before that?<br abp="350"><br abp="351">There is no perfect way to do this me thinks.
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exactly, if another City/Chel ski emerge and purchase their league title you have another team with little European pedigree in pot 1
this will devalue the competition as you don't even have to perform well in it to be seeded its pathetic really. City can fail to get out the group stages again and focus on the league win it and get seeded
posted on 29/8/14
It is the Champions League, so yes, if City don't win it, and don't win the PL they shouldn't be seeded pot 1.
A team endlessly failing in the League, pocketing the CL Cartel millions for sneaking in via qualifying, getting an easy draw via seeding, thus ensuring they get out of the group and pick up more Cartel points devalues a 'competition'.
If the aim of the whole season is to qualify for a competition you don't really have a go at winning seems faintly daft to me. We need different teams entering, and getting out of the group, not the same names every year. Might as well have a Euro Super League with no relegation. Lucrative but boring, suit some teams perfectly.
posted on 29/8/14
I still don't understand why they call it the Champions League when the also-rans get priority over actual Champions.
posted on 30/8/14
Surely, it's an indication that something is wrong with the current seeding if a team that hasn't won it's own domestic league for some time continues to be top-seeded?
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