Champions League

[DD1903]

Lolz how much did Man U pay for that goalkeeper !? 

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

This is what I don't like about the Champions League - that terrific sides like Man Utd and Sevilla can go out by finishing bottom, but mediocre Europa League sides who finish third are still in the mix in Conference, ie. Bodo/Glimt, Larnaca (Cyprus) Sheriff Tiraspol (Moldova), etc. Not shitting on these teams, it's just that in Februaries, teams like Man Utd, Sevilla should still be in the UEFA cauldron of great teams in a knockout stage. Your Bragas and Lazios of 2022/23 who finish on 8, 9, 10 points, fair enough, but lesser teams who lose 3 or 4 matches, end up on 4 or 5 points in Europa should be exited out of the UEFA cups that season.

Maybe that will be the case in next season with the 36 team, ie. six groups of six teams will even things up. Of the 36 teams, the best performing eight teams go through automatically to Round of 16, then the teams ranked 9-24 enter a playoff for the other eight places in Round of 16.

Or they could expand Conference League to 48 teams with 12 groups of 4, plus the four best performing second placed teams going trough to Round of 16 and the relatively lesser sides who end up in Europa, instead go into an larger Conference League. You could get rid of those shitty qualifiers for Conference League, just place those "successful" (a relative term in Conference) teams into Conference not Europa. I almost said expand it to 56 even 64 teams, but that's fucking stretching it quite a bit at this stage, maybe in the next decade.

UEFA are bound of beef-up their cups in the coming years, the prestige and money up for grabs is astronomical.  

More and more teams are worthy of playing in Europe. 

The top 125 are worthy, I would say...

https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/club/#/yr/2024

The bottom 64 could boost themselves up to be of Conference League level, many are there already, obviously.

Aberdeen are there, as a legacy team, as a well-run club, as a team that attracts very good players from all over Europe. The Dons should be permanently in Europe this century and beating teams, topping their Conference group, inching into Europa League over the years, bouncing between Europa and Conference, getting into Conference Finals. Not an unrealistic goal. The "new stadium" quandary gets in the way, I feel. With proper investment in managers and players, the Dons could be the best side in Scotland, you need to wash that Celtic "domination" pish out of your head, some are inured to that and it's bollocks. If any wealthy tycoon football fanatic looked at Aberdeen F.C. they would see potential to develop a great UEFA club. 

Feeling dizzy? Sorry! 😁

 

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

71 mins: Benfica were 3-0 up against Inter Milan, it's now 3-3 thanks to a well dodgy penalty. Unreal. Benfica need the win...

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

Sevilla are out of Europe. They won the Europa League Final last season (in a dodgy way?) and they looked good early in the campaign, but they didn't show up in a few games, fans will be gutted. I like seeing the "smaller" Spanish sides do well domestically and in UEFA cups. They are a side that always make Europa League exciting. I was expecting them to outmatch Lens, but no.

Looks like Man Utd are going out of Europe, too. They have had flashes this season in their group, but nothing of the quality they once had.

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

Real Sociedad narrowly top their group on goal diff. First time that they have ever topped a CL group.

If they get a favourable draw in R16 (Porto, Lazio), they might get to the Quarters...

[Dynamo]

Copenhagen showing the nice but dims how it's done.

[Hagi's pubic hair]

Royal Antwerp 1-0 Barcelona lol

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

1 hour ago, Hagi's pubic hair said:

Royal Antwerp 1-0 Barcelona lol

Onion Berlin v Real Madrid was like that last neecht, tbf. Modric in a rare shit performance, but they came good at the end... just.

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

Would have loved to see Newcastle in Europa League Round of 16 but it's not to be. 

Tuesday 19th December 2023

20:00

Chelsea v Newcastle United

Carabao Cup Quarter-Final

[Dynamo]

Thoroughly enjoyed Milans winner last night. A silly amount of Aberdeen fans seem to 'support' Newcastle these days. Get it up them

[minijc]

1 hour ago, Dynamo said:

Thoroughly enjoyed Milans winner last night. A silly amount of Aberdeen fans seem to 'support' Newcastle these days. Get it up them

I know of a few but couple of them have supported them since they were kids, no doubt plenty jumping on now though.

[Poodler]

5 hours ago, Dynamo said:

Thoroughly enjoyed Milans winner last night. A silly amount of Aberdeen fans seem to 'support' Newcastle these days. Get it up them

Surely not? Wtf is that all about? 
 

One of my gang has had a gallowgate end ST for 9 year now. He says the train from aberdeen for toon home games is busier now than it was pre money. A sad state of affairs tbh 

 

 

[dave_min]

3 minutes ago, Poodler said:

Surely not? Wtf is that all about? 
 

One of my gang has had a gallowgate end ST for 9 year now. He says the train from aberdeen for toon home games is busier now than it was pre money. A sad state of affairs tbh 

 

 

You shouldn’t be associating yourself with these types.

[Poodler]

40 minutes ago, dave_min said:

You shouldn’t be associating yourself with these types.

You associate with him aswell

[dave_min]

12 minutes ago, Poodler said:

You associate with him aswell

Further proof they’re not to be associated with 🤣

[The Gee Man]

2 hours ago, Poodler said:

Surely not? Wtf is that all about? 
 

One of my gang has had a gallowgate end ST for 9 year now. He says the train from aberdeen for toon home games is busier now than it was pre money. A sad state of affairs tbh 

 

 

Is there a train that goes from Aberdeen to Newcastle Stadium 

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

8 hours ago, Dynamo said:

Thoroughly enjoyed Milans winner last night. A silly amount of Aberdeen fans seem to 'support' Newcastle these days. Get it up them

I don't support them, I just like to see fat, shirtless Geordies in 4K.

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

28 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

Is there a train that goes from Aberdeen to Newcastle Stadium 

No, you just get pished and throw yourself into the sea on Friday night and hope to get high-tided into the Tyne by 2pm on Saturday.

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

2 hours ago, Poodler said:

Surely not? Wtf is that all about? 
 

One of my gang has had a gallowgate end ST for 9 year now. He says the train from aberdeen for toon home games is busier now than it was pre money. A sad state of affairs tbh 

 

 

Yeah, I had a mate who supported them when they were in the Prem under Keegan (bisexual) but he stopped talking about them when they became shit. Now he's going to the games again, but he'll quit again. Why bother. 

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

[GAME OF BILLIONS]

Napoli, Sociedad and Leipzig have a good chance of winning their games, I feel. Copenhagen have came along big time as a club over the past few years, they might give Man City a tough time. 

Champions of Asia, Urawa Reds play City tomorrow at 18:00 on TNT Sports in the Club World Cup Semi, in Saudi Arabia.

The other Semi is on tonight at 18:00: Fluminense v Al Ahly

A controversial anti-teabagging order is in place for the LGBTQ+ Brazilian fans.

[The Gee Man]

Don’t really want to think about a LGBTQ+ Brazilian! Close shave or what 

[Bluto10]

disappointed to not see man city drawn with leipzig tbh

[Roberto]

13 minutes ago, Bluto10 said:

disappointed to not see man city drawn with leipzig tbh

That's what you've become? Jesus.

[Bluto10]

10 minutes ago, Roberto said:

That's what you've become? Jesus.

are you doing that analytical / boredom thing again ?

[Roberto]

Just now, Bluto10 said:

are you doing that analytical / boredom thing again ?

Are you doing the trying to be funny to fit in thing again?

Stop trying humour, you fail at that as well.

[Bluto10]

Just now, Roberto said:

Are you doing the trying to be funny to fit in thing again?

Stop trying humour, you fail at that as well.

youve had a pop at me quite a few times tjis year. 
 

keep it up

[Roberto]

2 minutes ago, Bluto10 said:

youve had a pop at me quite a few times tjis year. 
 

keep it up

Awwwwww shame.

[maryhilldon]

2 hours ago, Roberto said:

Awwwwww shame.

Give him a dildo Bertie, give him something to cry about.

[GAME OF BILLIONS]