The Young Lion

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G14 itself does not want to be too ostentatious during the UEFA campaign, and wants to keep a low profile, so as to dilute the impression that Johansson struggled with G14 during his previous administration.

But after Platini made public his election platform, g14, especially the upper elite, cannot remain silent.

Let's take a look at Platini's election platform, or what the reform policy he promised is.

In addition to some beautiful words on the lips, such as returning football to the players, unity in the football world, opposing racial discrimination and doping, the most important points are actually two points.

First: Say no to g14!

This takes a stand!

Second, reform the Champions League!

As he said: Europe is not the United States, and the UEFA Champions League cannot learn from the NBA. Since any member of UEFA can participate in the European Cup, the Champions League should also be like this. Since Andorra has the right to play in the old Tela If Ford is playing against England, then Maltese club players are also entitled to see Ronaldinho at home.

If implemented, what will be reformed?

Relentlessly reduce the number of wealthy families!

A country can only have a maximum of 3 teams to participate in the UEFA Champions League!

It would definitely not work to do this directly, but he also came up with a compromise!

Qualify directly for the Champions League! And the qualifying draw rules!

In the past, there were only 16 places to directly enter the Champions League. Platini will increase to 22. This includes giving direct benefits to countries ranked eleventh to thirteenth in Europe. The champion team will get a direct ticket to the Champions League!

The qualifying rules will be changed to No Seeding!

This means that the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, and Bundesliga, among the top four and top five European leagues, have qualified for the Champions League play-offs. There is a high probability that there will be a direct dialogue in the play-offs!

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The number of wealthy teams entering the main match will be relatively reduced!

In contrast, the chances of those relatively weak teams entering the qualifying round will be lowered to encounter giants, and the probability of reaching the main match will also increase!

At this point, g14 is not fighting alone. In addition to the wealthy teams coming forward to warn Platini not to change the rules without authorization, the media from football powers are also on the side of g14.

For example, pessimistically predict: If Platini fulfills all his promises, when that day comes, Platini will be blamed the most in his life, and only on that day will the fans know. The Champions League they knew and loved had been ruined.

Originally, the gap between strength and weakness in the UEFA Champions League is already obvious, just like the top Millwall can use all substitute players in the group stage to complete the qualifying. There are more and more secondary characters who accompany the prince to study, and the gold content of this champion will be greatly reduced!

There are bound to be differences of interests within g14. Like Lyon, although they have completed the domestic dominance for many years, they have always been either dark horses or soy sauce in the Champions League. Their strength has not been widely recognized, and there is a gap in economic interests. great.

And is Platini's reform good for Lyon?

have!

He is the top class in Ligue 1, he can directly enter the Champions League without playing the play-offs.

Then there are few powerful giants in the Champions League, for example, the top four teams in the Premier League, needless to say Millwall, Lyon will definitely die if they meet! Chelsea also abused him without discussing it. Manchester United is serious, and there is nothing to say about crushing Lyon. Liverpool finished fourth last season. Before that, it was Arsenal. When these two teams meet, Lyon is hard to say with absolute certainty, even fear. of!

If Liverpool, who played in the play-offs this season, or a team in the future Premier League championship group encounters an Italian or Spanish team in the play-offs and is eliminated miserably, or no matter who is eliminated or who advances, it will be equivalent to helping Lyon improve. In order to go further in the Champions League, the probability of a small increase.

Coupled with Platini's French background, Lyon couldn't wait to choose to betray!

Lyon's blatant defection has little impact on the overall situation of UEFA's presidential election, but it still has some impact.

Looking at the whole of Europe, there are teams everywhere who envy and hate G14. Platini’s propaganda of saying no to G14 is to cater to the masses with weaker teams in these leagues. Platini has not yet taken the position, and Lyon They turned against each other, which made these people see the hope of g14's downfall! Of course, I will support Platini more firmly!

After the UEFA general election, G14 temporarily held a summit. At the meeting in Brussels this time, Millwall, on behalf of Carter, as the rotating chairman, criticized the three French club members face to face, even swearing at them!

And Millwall's allies, those elite clubs who also boycotted Platini, stood on Millwall's side. The meeting that day was more like a criticism meeting, and Carter even made harsh words in the end.

If you can't unite with us! Okay, you get out of g14, we will have new members join in!

The movement of g14 is also followed by external media.

At the end of the meeting, when Carter left the hotel, he was the same as the other representatives. Others were either expressionless, making it difficult to guess what was discussed in the meeting, while Carter was smiling, which was completely different from the previous rage in the meeting. two people.

This is the basic rule in football circles: internal problems, internal solutions!

The round table meeting of Premier League bosses is also such a tradition, and it is not surprising.

During the secret meeting, they stab each other with knives, and after leaving the meeting, they can talk and laugh happily to give the outside world a false impression.

This is also an important reason why the Premier League can struggle with the FA for a long time.

unite! Unite for profit!

But just after Carter flew back to London, he got off the plane when he received a call from his assistant. Immediately cursed: UEFA can't be so shameless! Hire me the best team of lawyers. If it doesn't work, sue them!

The Champions League knockout round is about to be staged. Before that, there will be a ceremony in which Millwall needs to return the Champions League trophy he won last season to UEFA, because it is the real trophy, and UEFA will also give Millwall a scaled-down replica trophy as a token of appreciation. For club collection.

Therefore, when UEFA selected the place and time for returning the trophy, it sent a fax to the Millwall Club to officially inform them of this matter!

Here comes the problem!

year 2004. In 2005 and 2006, Millwall won the Champions League in a row, three consecutive championships!

They have the right to permanently keep this authentic Champions League trophy!

Now UEFA wants to claim it back?

Aldrich and Carter stood in front of the window of the club meeting room and smoked.

In the conference room, the staff is busy, the focus is on UEFA's rules for the Champions League.

It was already night, and Carter rushed to the club when he came back in the afternoon to deal with this matter.

Aldrich exhaled smoke out of the window, and sighed with disinterest: Politics...

The UEFA Champions League is the most important brand of UEFA, and UEFA is the organizer. Must have absolute authority.

Just imagine, UEFA officially only has one authentic Champions League trophy. However, Millwall has two genuine trophies. UEFA is not happy to see such a situation happen. In addition, Platini wants to suppress g14, reform the Champions League and other factors. UEFA is now making such a thing. Derich was not too surprised.

A staff member suddenly got up and said: Boss, UEFA's rules are rather ambiguous. UEFA's official response is: when Millwall won the Champions League for the fifth time, the statistics of the number of times it kept the genuine trophy was cleared. We're on a two-peat now, not a three-peat.

Carter was furious, and said furiously, Damn it! If I knew it, I wouldn't have postponed the publicity plan to engrave my name on the trophy! UEFA, shameless must have a bottom line!

In fact, Carter has studied that rule before, so most of him can understand what kind of word games UEFA is playing.

Teams that have won three consecutive championships or accumulated five championships have the right to retain the genuine Champions League trophy, and after the team has achieved three consecutive championships or accumulated five championships, the statistics will be cleared.

In other words, Millwall's 2004 Champions League champion is listed as a cumulative five-time clearing limit.

In fact, combined with the context of the rules, this accumulation of five times should refer to the time when the authentic Champions League trophy was retained!

But when the rules were set that year, apart from Real Madrid, only a few teams had achieved three consecutive championships, and only Real Madrid had won more than 5 championships!

Therefore, when the rules were determined at that time, there was no major problem. Even if there were problems, it was not something that those in power of that generation should worry about.

Now being used by UEFA, Millwall can only suffer a dumb loss. The trophy must be returned to UEFA.

Carter was annoyed that in the summer of 2005, when Southgate retired, Millwall had just shown a genuine Champions League trophy with the names of legendary players engraved on it, and got another one in the summer of 2006. The practice of engraving the player's name on it is not only to sway the player's appetite, but also to avoid visual fatigue from the outside world with the same publicity strategy for two consecutive years, and the effect is definitely not optimistic.

Well now, Millwall wants to return the trophy to Zhao. If UEFA has notified them to return the trophy and still insists on engraving the name on the trophy, it will be a tear with UEFA!

Okay, that's it.

Aldrich waited for an unexpected result. Although UEFA did this ugly thing, it must have been prepared to make Millwall slap in the face. Live in vain.

Moreover, even if there is a controversy now, it is only temporary. After a year or two, it will disappear, and no one will care about what happened today.

However, before Aldridge led the team to Italy to challenge Inter Milan, at the pre-match UEFA Champions League press conference, he smiled lightly: Maybe we and UEFA have differences on retaining the authentic Champions League trophy, but it doesn't matter. , Millwall cooperated with UEFA, we returned the trophy to UEFA, as long as we continue to defend the Champions League this year, we can get the second genuine Champions League trophy, huh, unless, UEFA in the next three months Immediately amended the rules for the retention of the Champions League trophy, and no longer give the club the genuine trophy for permanent retention.” (To be continued..)

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