Alexander Cheferin as president of UEFA and Andrea Anielli as president of ECA are in open communication continuously and on Tuesday, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, they will have a meeting to discuss changes in the Champions League. Changes that are not expected to happen immediately but -if they happen- will be from 2024 onwards, a milestone year for world football as Anielli has said many times, as the international calendar of UEFA and FIFA will have to be written from the beginning. for clubs and national teams. According to the WSJ report, the discussion between the presidents of UEFA and ECA will not only address the issue of the Super League, which is rejected by both Ceferin and Anielli, but also the possible changes in the Champions League, with Medium to mention two.
The first concerns a system of "ascent" and "demotion" that may be established and which will obviously be based on the performance of each team. In this way, the Wall Street Journal writes, for some teams the Champions League may be almost imminent. The second concerns the possibility of some matches of the top inter-club competition being held, from 2024 onwards, at the weekend. Something that will cause inevitable problems in the national championships. Reading the changes they are thinking of making and bringing to mind the fact that this issue has been a concern for a long time, either with posts about a decision that has been made, or with the changes that UEFA has already made in the Champions League or others that are thinking to make in the future, he concludes: Why don't they directly say that in the end we will be led to the Super League?
Having "ascents" or "relegations" that will make it almost impossible for some teams to qualify for the groups seems like a victory for the big clubs that want the Super League and not as a move by UEFA to protect the status quo. In order to avoid misunderstandings, this is not written to defend, for example, the Greek teams. After all, there is no one who can convince you that Porto (or Lyon can ever be), in terms of a stable presence at a good level in Europe. It is written because the European federation is supposed to want to defend football, the open Champions League for everyone, etc. But it is supposed. Not valid. Because if it were, UEFA would not have already given direct tickets for the groups to the top four from Italy, Germany, Spain, England.
Why can't the big ones kill each other from September, October or November, paving the way for the little ones to go further than they can now? Because the money is a lot and a Champions League in which big names will have left early and some Steaua, Anderlecht or Eindhoven will go ahead, it will not be commercial, is the answer. So, because UEFA is thinking about money, since UEFA has taken so many years to educate adults about money, it is absurd to react now because these adults want even more money.
"We are talking about a business with 10 billion euros a year. Enough with the UEFA theater, "said Napoli's Aurelio De Laurentiis, pointing out how big clubs think and what a financial difference, in their favor, will exist if the Super League is created. But this is a danger that does not exist, because the European federation will not allow it. Simply put, it will be even more difficult for the little ones to get into the groups with the "ups and downs" and the "relegations" in the qualifiers, it will be impossible for anyone to proceed with the event - so get a good share of the money that exists now - from the little ones and maybe from 2024 they will accept some Champions League matches at the weekend, because then there will be even bigger revenues, as all the research done by the clubs that (allegedly) want the super league will show.
We will have a Champions League though. Not a Super League, which we will simply call - so that the world does not become alienated - Champions League…
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