Champions League 25/26

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Loki

Well-known member
Spanish teams will only notice this when they are extinct like dinosaurs. Fucking donkeys. Then they will fire Tebas, when it's way too late.
Tebas' peanut brain doesn't understand, that in order to pay your debts you need income. As long as you have a big income, you can be hundreds of millions in debt and be economically healthy. If you don't have income, even one million debt will end you.

Reducing LaLiga's popularity by forcing the teams to sell their best players and prohibit to buy new players, puts them more at risk to drown in small debts, than spending big and remain interesting to generate income.

And somehow still nobody important asks the question, why the registration problems in LaLiga remain after Tebas promised they'd disappear after signing his CVC deal. All they talk about is Negreira 20 years ago, but how Tebas destroys the league single-handedly today, somehow nobody cares. This league deserves what's coming for them.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
Meh, I don't care about the standings right now. Just finish in top 24 and hope we'll find some kind of form by March. If we won't then it won't really matter who we will play anyway.

As we've seen last season you can easily get a bad draw and go out in Round of 16 even if you win the league stage.
 

FC B

Senior Member
Meh, I don't care about the standings right now. Just finish in top 24 and hope we'll find some kind of form by March. If we won't then it won't really matter who we will play anyway.

As we've seen last season you can easily get a bad draw and go out in Round of 16 even if you win the league stage.

If Barca manages to get some form back it's crucial to finish group stage in top 8. From now on this grants return leg at home until the semis.
 

MonteCuler

Well-known member
Meh, I don't care about the standings right now. Just finish in top 24 and hope we'll find some kind of form by March. If we won't then it won't really matter who we will play anyway.

As we've seen last season you can easily get a bad draw and go out in Round of 16 even if you win the league stage.
Exactly. I care about the league, it's where every point matters no matter if it's November or March
 

jaype

Well-known member
I think top 8 is irrelevant for us . Home advantage is non-existent, the atmosphere at Montjuic is dead and it doesn't intimidate anyone.
 

Loki

Well-known member
CVC was one big ruse to generate a system for Spanish clubs to finance Stadium renovations to win the World Cup bid.
Only half was required to use for infrastructure if I remember correctly, rest they could use for the team and some of it also got "lost" in the pockets of some people at their clubs I imagine. In the end, yeah it was a scam to enrich today's people from tomorrow's money. Laporta did something similar with the levers, but he had no choice, he needed cash after Barto's trainwreck to keep the club competitive to keep generating income and pay wages, otherwise the club would have been bankrupt.
 

stb_1

Senior Member
The problem is, the Premier League is like a run away train now they have largely fixed their wastefulness in the transfer market and hired top managers.

City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are in safe hands with good-decent managers and recruitment. They will continue to be good for the next 3-5 years.

Man United + Spurs have insane amount of room to spend until they finally get the right players. They might have the managers now, given time.

Newcastle + Villa have really really good managers and are ambitious, trying to crack into the big 6. Good players and recruiting good.

Brighton + Bournemouth + Brentford have good managers each and excellent recruitment. Quite simply these teams are becoming rich enough to avoid having their players being stolen by any teams other than Europe's elite now. No reason they should get much worse.

Crystal Palace have an excellent manager and really good recruitment, a little more fragile than the 3 'Bs' as their manager and best player are likely to leave on a free soon.

Nottingham Forest have an excellent squad, just need a good manager now.

13 teams I've named who could be Champions League quality if they played in a different league.
 

Messi983

Senior Member
At least Spanish clubs in EL and ECL did their job this week. Rayo with a great comeback (from 0-2 to 3-2 with a last minute winner) while Celta and Betis won relatively easy.

La Liga is currently 3rd in this season's UEFA coefficient behind PL and BL. Cyprus is 4th though not far behind so obviously still very early in the season.
 

Rassvet

Well-known member
Since 24/25

@Temptation @Birdy
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