Thank feck UEFA saw sense and scrapped the coefficients the year that Spurs were in the CL.

Lesta

We have lost 2 clubs already

West Ham and Spurs


Italy still have 6 I think

comment by Dean Sturridge's Nephü (Formerly LGT) (U13718)
posted about an hour ago
Thank feck UEFA saw sense and scrapped the coefficients the year that Spurs were in the CL.

Lesta
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The year Spurs were in the CL? More like the 20 minutes Spurs were in the CL. ROFLMFAO LOLOLOL TEEHEE

Doesn't matter as much with the new changes from next season.

It's alive!!!!!!!!!!!!

comment by Zlatan The King Ibrahimovic (U10026)
posted 3 minutes ago
Doesn't matter as much with the new changes from next season.
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Haha now there is absolutely no incentive for any team to do well in Europe. Perfect for actually trying, but then losing and pretending they wanted to go out in order to qualify next year to pretend they're not trying to qualify the next year to etc.

Fack off, Barry.

I'm obviously talking about the difference between Italy and England. With both countries comfortably in front of the French league it doesn't matter as they're both guaranteed four cl places next season.

More places just means more teams pretending to try to go out. The Premier League is where the money is. Basically just staying in the PL is the same as winning 97.6 champions leagues. Maybe the CL will go the way of international football where people just treat it as an unwelcome nuisance. England v Scotland would have been the biggest fixture in Britain by a mile a few years ago, but there's no money to be made from it so Sky and the like barely even mentioned it in the build up. There is far more money to be made from a Mourinho quotes story. It's not long before football is just scripted like TV and shiite like Made of Essex or whatever craap. If girls and gaays can be tricked so easily for money, then so can we. Were we not saying that Pogba is worth the money cos someone called Wang in China bought a tshirt? THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK. bed.

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Barry's right though. Soon we'll be better off supporting non-league clubs like Dundee.

comment by Mourinho delenda est (U6426)
posted 59 minutes ago
Barry's right though. Soon we'll be better off supporting non-league clubs like Dundee.
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I don't think anyone has ever chosen to support Dundee

Sky advertising revenue fall.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/sky-warns-weakness-tv-ad-market-revenues-fall-brexit/1412117

Don't kid yourselves that it's your Sky Sports subscription that pays for the squillions your clubs get, it all to do with advertising.

The balloon's gonna burst at some point and when it does, there's gonna be scheidt scattered for miles.

Mercifully me and the Dundee supporters will be well away from it, ya bunch of patronising to$$ers. Hope you get plastered.

theresgonnabeashow is right too, there are too many patronising to$$ers around.

European Champions from exotic locations like Madrid, Turin, London or Glasgow used to be the obvious choice when you were from out in the sticks and wanted to look original and sophisticated.

The people banging on about local clubs were mostly Brexiters, Scotch independentists and child molesters.

But then everyone went Sky. Nowadays there's no added value in supporting the big teams. Small clubs is the way to go now if you want to look interesting at parties.

The gap between Italy and england is now 2.393 points.

Italy due to gain 2.012 points at seasons end.

Just saying. Could've been a great season this one

But what will they all do when China wasn't too join the party? If European advertising r revenue falls, make no mistake, Sky will shift the emphasis there. It's already starting.

The chinese tv deal is up to about 250mil a year I believe.

Their average attendences are soaring, they have a market of about 1.5billion people domestically. if the chinese govt wants tp push football as the national sport, it'll go stratospheric. and the money will follow

If European advertising r revenue falls, make no mistake, Sky will shift the emphasis there. It's already starting.
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I'm not too worried, as good as the likes of Pelle and Paulinho are I think the European leagues have a good few years left in them yet.

One thing that will majorly hold back the Chinese league is a lack of other big Asian leagues. The European leagues have other big European leagues to compete against in the CL and such. Which is why playing in the CL is seen as the height of a players career (of competitions he could compete in, world cup maybe an equal or lesser)

It is going to take a momentus effort for the Chinese league to compete with one of the Russian, French or Portuguese leagues let alone the combination of top leagues that makes up the CL.

comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 23 minutes ago
The chinese tv deal is up to about 250mil a year I believe.

Their average attendences are soaring, they have a market of about 1.5billion people domestically. if the chinese govt wants tp push football as the national sport, it'll go stratospheric. and the money will follow
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Ho Lee Fhuk

Is the Chinese league even the best league in Asia?

I don't see it ever reaching the standards of the real top leagues in Europe, to be honest. And even if it does, I think it'll be down to having really increased the strength of the homegrown talent pool and attracting the best in Asia rather than getting all the wprld stars from Europe and South America.

I don't care how much money they have, they'll not match the prestige of the big European leagues.

*should also add attracting lesser European and South American players.

The J league is pretty big.
Club football in the likes of Saudi, Qatar, South Korea, Australia ain't that bad either.

Kashmir Antlers of Japan just beat Nacional in the Club World Cup to book a final v Real for instance.

Should check auto correct...

I know Guangzhou Evergrande have won the Asian CL a couple of times recently, but not sure how the rest of the league matches up to the other leagues in Asia.

Maybe they're Led Zep fans