New formula of the Champions League: "UEFA no longer acts for football"

UEFA is preparing a new Champions League formula from 2024. There will be more clubs and more matches in a longer first round.

For you, this new formula proves that UEFA no longer decides anything and that it is the big clubs that rule football.  

"It is now a certainty. European football is not going to take advantage of the crisis to reform itself and seek a new lease of life. It will accentuate inequalities, seek more profit for the big clubs and make fun of the glorious uncertainty of the sport It is not the new world that awaits us, but the same and worse.

Let's look at what UEFA is planning for this new formula for the Champions League: 36 teams will take part, that's four more than currently.

Each of these teams will play 10 matches in the first round.

Four more each.

And no round-trip confrontation.

Do you think!

It would be too much dramaturgy that could interest enthusiasts.

No, it will now be 10 singles matches against 10 different teams.

Like a massive 36 league championship, except you don't play against everyone.

Have you lost me?

It's normal, it's a gloubi-boulga this first round.

We will just remember that at the end, the first eight qualify for the knockout stages.

And the next 16 are vying for the remaining eight places. We play more matches, so the big teams have every chance to come out.

Today, they can be missed on two or three meetings and risk elimination.

There, with 10 matches, the risk is well diluted.

Yes, in fact, it looks like the European Superleague that big clubs dream of.

That is exactly the problem.

In fact, UEFA no longer acts for football, it only reacts to the project of the richest clubs.

They are the ones who decide the future.  

France will still not have three but four clubs in the Champions League.

That's good news, isn't it?

To do what ?

To serve as cannon fodder for FC Barcelona or Manchester City?

It will look a bit like this.

In addition, with these 10 matches to be played between September and January, apart from PSG which will be able to juggle between Europe and the French championship with its workforce, the others will have difficulty playing both competitions to the full length. .

So what will they do?

Will they favor the Champions League by trying to limit the damage in the league or will they just be happy to find themselves facing the big teams without really playing to focus on Ligue 1?

When I think that one wonders why football interests the public less today… It is not necessary to look very far.

This kind of new formula kills the spirit of the game, erases uncertainties and seeks only profit.

I no longer remember who said that we see more and more matches and less and less football.

But it seems to me to fit the situation perfectly. "