I love that they aren't even pretending this isn't a cash grab. Agree to more games, we'll figure out how it works and why its a good idea later.
I'm hearing Same current group stage R16 becomes a group stage with four groups of 4 with the top two advancing (6 games to eliminate 8 teams instead of 2) Then knockouts
I honestly wouldn’t mind it since it somewhat reduces the luck of having a great draw. That being said I wish they’d stop tampering with it (and the WC and Euros too).
As a fan of a club that will not be participating, I support more really good matches taking place during the week
How would they determine the composition of the second groups? Take two 1s and two 2s from the initial group stage?
Yeah, everyone's coming around. Well I'm NOT DOUG! This club is destroying soccer... you’ve got to kick them off the tour.
100%. they get to claim how tough they were and dominate the headlines for a while until it is appealed and overturned so they can say “well we tried!”
Now Pep won't need an excuse for why he continues to flame out and and underachieve despite having a $2,000,0000,000 squad. Doing him a favor honestly.
This guy knows his shit on the subject. Said earlier that City weren't gonna appeal if it was 1 year but guess the 2 year ban changed that https://twitter.com/edthompsn