New Champions League format

[AgentZ]

What are your thoughts on the proposals for the new Champions League structure? I am really disappointed about the Wildcard entry system.

This moves the tournament further away from its roots and much much more towards the closed European super league to the rich clubs have wanted.

I think it's a short hop from there to a WWE type of contest where the actual sport comes second to the spectacle.

 

[AgentZ]

If you know you are going to get the wildcard, what is the point of playing the remaining games? Makes no difference if you finish 7th or 15th. Crazy idea.

 

[AgentZ]

"Sporting merit should be the guiding principle and we should not qualify teams on co-efficient," said European Leagues president Lars-Christer Olsen.

How does he think the coefficient is determined...

The same methodology used to determine World Cup Allocations no doubt

 

[AgentZ]

Which is my point about all this really. Every format change that has occurred seems to be moving further away from Football as a sporting contest towards Football as circus entertainment. Sure the actors are athletic and talented, but the actual outcomes of matches seem less important than names of the stars involved and the hype of the promoters.

 

[AgentZ]

edit: In reply to your edit and wanting to go back to just the League Champions qualifying then my goodness I think that's an awful idea. We would have a Champions League that could only be won by 4 or 5 teams each year and we would have games between the Scottish champions and the Romanian champions. I do not believe anybody wants to watch that.

Scots and Romanians might want to watch.